Word: englandisms
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...where my health care came courtesy of Medicaid-type insurance, and I was disgusted to see many people barred from health care due to inadequate means. Now having lived in the U.K. for 15 years, I have enjoyed top-quality care courtesy of the NHS. Andrew Hope-Hall, WORCESTER, ENGLAND...
...time of the American Revolution, Manchester, in northwestern England, was a market town of about 30,000 people in the shadow of the Pennines, in whose pretty valleys workers spun and wove textiles in their homes. When Friedrich Engels arrived from Germany to work at the mill of his family's company in 1842, the local textile industry had shifted from cottages to giant mills, and its products were sourced and exported around the world. The population of Manchester had exploded tenfold and Pennine hamlets had become towns in their own right. There were other cities, in England and elsewhere...
...Engels was just 24 - 24! - when he detailed that something else in The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844, a work that is at once brilliant reportage and a sustained cry of outrage that makes Charles Dickens' Hard Times - which covers much the same ground - read like sentimental tosh. Not the least of Hunt's achievements is to show how what Engels saw in Manchester provided the essential factual underpinning for the theoretical work on capitalism that he and Karl Marx would later produce. (Read: "Marx's Engels...
...Truthfully, there would have been no Marx, and no Marxism, without Engels, and not just because the two of them formed an astonishingly productive intellectual team. First as a capitalist himself - after leaving England to dabble in journalism and revolution back in Germany, Engels returned to work in Manchester for 20 years - and then as a rentier, his money sustained Marx's family for decades. His devotion was such that Engels even assumed paternity of an illegitimate child of Marx...
...bout. Fine. Assuming that for every household that purchased De La Hoya-Mayweather, five people saw it, that's 12 million viewers - not bad. Yet, even by this optimistic measure, boxing's biggest event this decade still couldn't outdraw the audience for last week's New England Patriots-Buffalo Bills regular season game on ESPN, which reached 14 million viewers...