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Louis XIV's France in pre-eminent in a Europe of rival commercial powers about to embark on the long war of the Spanish succession (and over the fate of Spain's rich colonies). It will take place in Europe (France and Spain vs. Austria, England and the Netherlands) and...
With her political and personal security threatened from beginning to end, Elizabeth needed all her courage, cunning and caution to reign. She took the throne of a poor, isolated and deeply humiliated country. As a Queen, she faced special problems of marriage and succession, religious division, domestic discontent and foreign...
To the Thanksgiving feast experience, the rapid succession from gnawing hunger to gastronomic fulfillment To those who prepared the piles of food that never end and those who roasted and basted that turkey with succulent perfection.
Harvard, meanwhile, strung together a frustrating succession of three-and-outs.
But Jobs 2.0 is one decade older and two companies (NeXT and Pixar) wiser, and these days he is his own designated grownup. By the time Jobs returned to Apple, a succession of vision-free ceos had left the company coasting on the fumes of its past innovation, with a...