![]() ![]() ‘The Speckled Band’ is widely regarded as one of the best Sherlock Holmes stories, and this detailed plot summary reveals exactly why it is so admired. Holmes acknowledges that it was his blows with the cane which roused the animal’s ‘snakish temper’, so he was indirectly responsible for the doctor’s death, but he won’t lose too much sleep over that. But if Roylott tried enough times, eventually, one night, the snake would end up biting her and he would be able to keep his full allowance from his deceased wife. ![]() ![]() The whistling sound Helen had heard the night before was the doctor recalling the snake to him, after unsuccessfully goading it to enter Helen’s room and deliver the deadly bite. (Holmes guesses that the saucer of milk had been used to train the snake to return to the doctor when summoned by the whistle.) The whistling sound was the doctor using a tin whistle to coax the snake back after it had carried out its deadly task. When he inspected the room in which one sister had been killed and the other now slept, he deduced that the dummy bell-rope was there to act as a bridge for some sort of creature – such as a venomous snake – to enter the room and climb down onto the bed. ![]()
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![]() ![]() And as Geoffrey Parker points out in his Imprudent King: A New Life of Philip II, those primary sources are scattered in archives and libraries all over the world, often with a letter in one place and its response two continents away. Imprudent King: A New Life of Philip IIby Geoffrey ParkerYale University Press, 2014The primary sources for a life of Spain's King Philip II (who ruled from 1556 to 1598, in addition to being Prince Consort to England's Queen Mary I from 1554 to 1558) aren't just ample – they're frankly staggering: plenty of eyewitness accounts of the man and his reign, plenty of contemporary histories, plenty of monkish annals, innumerable memos, minutes, and state council documents, not to mention a great pile of Philip's own illegible letters and notes, dashed off on every conceivable occasion over the course of a long and very active life and reign. ![]() ![]() ![]() college campuses that include: Morehouse School of Medicine, Fisk University, Spelman College, Harvard University, Yale University, Princeton University, Smith College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). DeGruy and her research projects have featured in news and activist coverage of contemporary African-American social issues, in addition to public lectures and workshops on U.S. ![]() She is most known for her book Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome, originally published by UpTone Press in 2005 and revised and republished in 2017 by JDP Inc. She is current president and CEO of DeGruy Publications, Inc. Joy Angela DeGruy is an author, academic, and researcher, who previously served as assistant professor at the Portland State University School of Social Work. ( January 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)ĭr. There may be relevant discussion on the talk page. It may need editing to conform to Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy. This article is an autobiography or has been extensively edited by the subject or by someone connected to the subject. ![]() Heirs of the founders by brands5/30/2023 ![]() Their rise was marked by dramatic duels, fierce debates, scandal and political betrayal. Together these heirs of Washington, Jefferson and Adams took the country to war, battled one another for the presidency and set themselves the task of finishing the work the Founders had left undone. South Carolina's John Calhoun, with piercing eyes and an even more piercing intellect, defended the South and slavery. ![]() Henry Clay of Kentucky, as dashing as he was ambitious, embodied the hopes of the rising West. Daniel Webster of Massachusetts, a champion orator known for his eloquence, spoke for the North and its business class. ![]() ![]() In the early 1800s, three young men strode onto the national stage, elected to Congress at a moment when the Founding Fathers were beginning to retire to their farms. From the two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, bestselling historian, and author of Our First Civil War comes “a historical spellbinder” ( The Christian Science Monitor) about a trio of political giants in nineteenth-century America-and their battle to complete the unfinished work of the Founding Fathers and decide the future of our democracy. ![]() Adam rubin and daniel salmieri5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Regardless of, or perhaps because of, the absurdity of the story, this tale should be a big hit with anyone with an affinity for dragons. "The watercolor, gouache, and colored pencil cartoon illustrations are the real stars here. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for High Five by Adam Rubin & Daniel Salmieri - 2019 Mint 1st Edition Hardcover at the best online. "The perfect book for kids who love dragons and mild tacos." Little kids will relate to the anti-spicy bias and chuckle over Salmieri's watercolor and gouache cartoon illustrations showing literally boatloads of tacos and all sizes of dragons enjoying their favorite food at pool parties, costume parties and, well, taco parties." " Dragons Love Tacos is a heaping helping of silly. "Off-kilter fun for those who like their picture books (and salsa) zesty and fresh." If you're ready for a story time filled with gut-busting laughter, come to Wild Rumpus on Wednesday, May 10 at 4:30 PM to meet the author behind some of our favorite picture books.īut that's not all! Chipotle will be here to give a salsa and guacamole making demonstration! The best part is, we get to eat the salsa and guacamole, too! The hilarious Dragons Love Tacos is one of those books.we can't get enough of it! Luckily for us, author Adam Rubin is giving the world the gift of a sequal, appropriately titled Dragons Love Tacos 2: The Sequal! Every so often, a book takes our entire staff by storm. ![]() How to breathe underwater orringer5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() He had even taken Ella to the hospital once when her mother had a treatment. Three months earlier, Ella’s father had explained what chemotherapy was and how it would make her mother better. She wore a blue dress and a strand of jade beads and a knit cotton hat beneath which she was bald. In the front seat their father drove without a word, while their mother dozed against the window glass. He had worn his Pilgrim costume, brown shorts and a white shirt and yellow paper buckles taped to his shoes. ![]() On the seat beside her, Benjamin fidgeted with his shirt buttons. Ella pushed at her loose tooth with the tip of her tongue and fanned her legs with the hem of her velvet dress. It was Thanksgiving Day and hot, because this was New Orleans they were driving uptown to have dinner with strangers. Editor's Note: The following is a portion of the first story in the collection. ![]() ![]() ![]() Suze takes listeners past broke, to a secure place where they'll never have to worry about revisiting broke again. Her advice at times bucks conventional wisdom (Did she just say use your credit card?) and may even seem counterintuitive (Pay into a retirement fund even though your credit card debt is killing you?), but it's her honesty, understanding, and uncanny ability to anticipate the needs of her readers that have made her the most trusted financial expert of the day. Suze Orman tells her young, fabulous, and broke listeners precisely what actions to take and why. The Money Book was written to address the specific financial reality that young people face today. They're called "Generation Debt", people in their 20s and 30s who graduate from college with a mountain of student loan debt and are stuck with one of the weakest job markets in recent history, yet they're painfully aware of the urgent need to take matters into their own hands. The Money Book for the Young, Fabulous, & Broke is financial expert Suze Orman's answer to a generation's cry for help. ![]() The mister novel5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() She arrives in London, narrowly escapes being forced into the sex trade, becomes a cleaner and meets Maxim, who is drawn to her innocence. Alessia has recently escaped from Albania, where her father tried to marry her off to an abusive man. Maxim, part-time DJ, photographer, model and full-time philanderer, has inherited his brother’s earldom, national businesses, and plush properties in London, Cornwall, Oxfordshire, Northumberland and Mayfair.Įnter Alessia, the sweet daily (that’s the English term for cleaner). When we meet him, he has lost his older brother, the Earl of Trevethick (a title invented by James). Maxim Trevelyan, much like Christian Grey, is an attractive, rich bachelor in his late 20s. So how does The Mister measure up? Here’s everything you need to know. I’ve been with these two for so long,” she told The Independent, explaining the gestation of her new book. James has even helped design nipple clamps.Īnd while her fans want more steamy tales of Christian and Ana, that wasn’t a part of James’s plan. ![]() The trilogy went on to sell over 150 million copies, was turned into three feature films grossing over $1 billion at the box office, and ignited a 50 Shades-themed sex industry. ![]() ![]() James originally wrote her 50 Shades of Grey trilogy as fan fiction about Edward and Bella, and, after changing all the characters’ names (that’s how Christian Grey was born), sold the books to a small Australian publisher in 2011. James is only famous because of Twilight-yes, the book about sparkly vampires. ![]() Dworkin right wing women5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() Dworkin was twelve years younger than the woman she considered her hero, the second-wave feminist critic Kate Millett, and she found herself expanding on Millett’s ideas of structural misogyny a half generation too late. But part of her downfall was simply a matter of timing. It’s true, too, that she wrote with a passion and anger still uncommon in women, and she directed some of her fiercest critiques at fellow feminists who had once been her friends. She held inflexible opinions on pornography and sex work that have fallen dramatically out of fashion, and she made terrible tactical missteps in pursuing her vision of a world without the sex trade. ![]() Much of Dworkin’s unpopularity was her own fault. It is still more common to see her ridiculed than cited. Almost fifteen years after her death, her exile from the sphere of acceptable political thought is near-absolute. The left aggressively disavowed her, with other feminists going out of their way to contrast her opinions with their own. The right parodied her with the viciousness reserved for misogyny, mocking her overalls, frizzy hair, and excess weight. ![]() She had become less a public thinker than a symbol, an embodiment of feminism’s missteps and excesses. EVEN BEFORE her death from myocarditis in 2005, Andrea Dworkin was more read about than read. ![]() The name of the star by maureen johnson5/30/2023 ![]() It is hard to predict what the impact of this ruse will be. The bar for admissible ID is lower for older voters because they tilt Tory. Younger people with an equivalent travel document will be turned away. Under the new rules, pensioners will be allowed into a polling both if they show their bus passes. To swing the result, a cheating campaign would need an army of serial liars, probably with multiple disguises.Īn easier way to skew elections is to make it harder for some people to vote. Each impersonation alters the outcome by just one vote. ![]() In reality, the crime being thwarted – lying about your name to steal someone else’s ballot paper – is vanishingly rare. ![]() On paper, the demand that voters show photographic proof that they are who they say they are is a protection against fraud. ![]() |