The road to insurrection Sep 14, 2009
Their aim was usually to discipline a king who was not playing by the accepted rules of the game and only to replace him (as in the cases of Kings Edward II and Richard II) when he refused to mend his ways. With the exception of Jack Cade s rising in 1450 and the Peasants Revolt 70 years earlier (a large-scale popular uprising with genuinely revolutionary social and economic aims), medieval rebellions were often more about preserving the status quo rather than challenging it. (The Economist)
Kenneth Edward Neal May 13, 2009
Ken was a former resident of Port Lavaca and a 1967 graduate of Calhoun High School. In addition Ken is survived by his mother Evelyn Lobrecht of Killeen and a sister Barbara Schneider also of Killen and a brother Lester Neal of Thousand Oaks, California. (Port Lavaca Wave, TX)
Why Tilda Swinton is the Queen of the Indies May 11, 2009
She was the Madonna in his The Garden and Queen Isabella in Edward II. She floated dead on a lake in Jarman's Caravaggio and, unseen, read the dying director's musings on mortality in Blue. After Jarman succumbed to AIDS in 1994, she mourned not only the his passing but his elliptical, confrontational style. (Time.com)
LETTER: Using Bible to denounce homosexuality is wrong Apr 29, 2009
The Question wrote on Apr 28, 2009 4:59 PM:" If you were to retroactively withdraw the accomplishments of gay people from history, you'd find yourself somewhere back in the Dark Ages, at least.Subtract the achievements of these: Alexander the Great, Socrates, Hadrian, Richard the Lionhearted, Edward II, Saladin, Francis Bacon, Frederick the Great, Byron, Walt Whitman, Oscar Wilde, Willa Cather, E.M. Forster, Tchaikovsky, Marcel Proust, Cole Porter, Leonard Bernstein, Julius Caesar, Pope Julius... (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Mistress battling millionaire's kin again Apr 14, 2009
This is an elementary part of the law that has been there since the time of Edward II.. Search. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)
Eleanor of Castile Apr 14, 2009
Their son became King Edward II.. Eleanor of Castile, the Landowner. (Suite101.com)
Editor's Mailbag (Jan. 26) Feb 7, 2009
"If that sociopath Sam Adams resigned, his loving supporters, who made him their "poster boy," would do an Edward II on him then set him on fire! In the name of equality and love, of course.Truth be known, while seemingly being incapable of shame, Sam Adams is probably more terrified of his psychotic "supporters" than he will ever be of the "normal" people who show up at city hall with posters calling for him to resign.I'm quite certain Sam Adams is well aware of the story of the "end" to Edward... (Albany Democrat-Herald, OR)
