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Forbidden by a 131-year-old law known as the Truck Act from paying its workers in anything but "current coin of the realm," British industry every Friday has been forking over 15 million little brown packets of pounds, shillings and pence to 60% of the labor force. Friday evening, Mum gets her share. Friday night, pubs, cinemas and dog tracks get .theirs. Saturday morning, tradesmen get theirs. Unfortunately, stickup men usually take theirs early on Friday, and robbers in London alone last year made off with $700,000 worth of lolly. Alarmed by the rising robbery rate throughout Britain...
...medieval Europe, Kopparberg made Sweden a major political power; its profits financed King Gustavus Adolphus' part in the Thirty Years War (1618-48), which established Swedish hegemony over Europe for nearly a century. When Queen Christina visited the mine in 1646, she said: "The greatness of the realm stands and falls with the copper mountain...
...heretic Valentinus, the 2nd century priest who stood as candidate for the bishopric of Rome before lapsing into Gnosticism. In his works, which were savagely attacked by such early Christian apologists as St. Irenaeus, Valentinus argued that the real God was hidden to men's eyes; earth, the realm of evil, had been created by a lesser, malevolent deity. Jesus had been sent by the hidden God to redeem the world from this demiurge, and had imparted a secret wisdom, or gnosis, to the select few who were destined to be saved...
...property in Cleveland. In his suit, Gallick held that the insect would not have been there to bite him if it had not been for the pool. The railroad's lawyers argued that the connections if any, between the water and what happened to Gallick "were beyond the realm of reasonable probability or foreseeability." In its ruling, the Supreme Court affirmed the principle that the "tortfeasor" (the party that commits the wrongful act) "must compensate his victim for even the improbable or unexpectedly severe consequences...
...aluminum throne, at the start of his second tour around the world to name himself king of 101 nations. Yesterday he appeared in the simple garb of a prophet, a blue suit, and lunched in Lowell House with several friends-including a junior he had crowned "prince of the realm" while last at the College...