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Aerial Auroras. Turner scorned the highly varnished, precisely glazed look of a "finished" painting. He wanted his paintings to show virtuoso brushwork (sometimes he even daubed with bread rather than bristles). Before exhibitions opened at the Royal Academy, artists traditionally varnished their canvases in sight of the public. Turner, instead...
The first U.S. poll tax on voters, a ten-shilling levy enacted by New Hampshire in 1784, did away with property qualifications for voting, thus served as an important halfway step to full suffrage. Though almost all the states abandoned even this vestige of moneyed privilege before the Civil War...
The mutiny achieved results of sorts. In 1806, nine years after it was over, the navy raised an able seaman's pay one shilling a week. In 1808, for the first time in history, British crews received an issue of soap. In 1866, Parliament lowered the ceiling on flogging...
Chou's only consolation was that, two days after he left, Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya announced that the East African shilling, established when the countries were under British rule, will be abandoned, with the end of the three-nation Common Market expected to follow. Prime instigator of the breakup...
Not so long ago, the three former British East African nations of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda were talking ambitiously of joining together in political federation. There was easy agreement to maintain the joint rail, air and postal services handed down by the British, and all three nations continued using the...