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Tuesday, May 17, 2005

Abbey, Edwin Austin

Yale University Art Gallery, Edwin Austin Abbey (1852–1911) (1973).

Monday, May 16, 2005

Japan, The Yamato polity

The pattern of administrative control established is called the uji-kabane system. Uji is usually translated as “clan” in English. The uji are thought to be extensions of original agricultural communities, perhaps what early Chinese records referred to as “states.” Essentially, farming communities were associated into lineal groups, united by the belief that harvests

Saturday, May 14, 2005

Malachowski, Stanislaw

The son of Jan Malachowski, the royal grand chancellor, Malachowski was named marshal (speaker) of the Sejm (Diet) in 1788. He was the prime force behind a constitution, adopted in 1791, that embodied such modern western European