Ventotene is a small island in the Mediterranean. It is about 3km long, with a maximum width of about 800m.
In Roman times it was known as Pandataria. It served as the place of banishment for Augustus’ daughter Julia and his granddaughter Agrippina the Elder.
The primary significance of Constanta, Romania, on the Black Sea, is that it was the location of the exile of Ovid, writer of Metamorphoses, by the emperor Augustus. Somehow adultery was involved but it is not clear how.
The court-martial-ordered exile of Philip Nolan from the United States after becoming mixed up in the Aaron Burr conspiracy is central to the plot of Edward Everett Hale’s 1863 short story The Man Without a Country.
Paddy Nolan was a well-known criminal lawyer in the Northwest Territories of Canada in the late 19th century. An Irish immigrant, he lived up to the Irish stereotype of a quick-witted humourist.
On one occasion, he was in court opposing R.B. Bennett, a well-known lawyer who had a reputation for pomposity. Bennett was accompanied by a junior lawyer, and would bark out commands: “Boy! Get me Phipson on Evidence!.” Boy! get me Kenney on Crimes!"
After several of these commands, Nolan turned to his own junior and loudly stated: “Boy! get me Bennett on Bologney!”, cracking up the courtroom.
Undeterred, Bennett went on to become Prime Minister of Canada. Nolan’s son, who articled with Bennett, served on the Supreme Court of Canada.
The High Court of Australia is located in Canberra. It has three courtrooms, with No. 1 Courtroom being the focal point of the building. It is used on all ceremonial occasions and for those cases where a full bench of the seven Justices of the Court is required to sit.
On 4 May 2006 a record number of counsel (39) appeared at the beginning of the hearing of the Work Choices case (State of New South Wales v Commonwealth of Australia, State of Western Australia v Commonwealth of Australia, State of South Australia v Commonwealth of Australia, State of Queensland v Commonwealth of Australia, Australian Workers Union & Another v Commonwealth of Australia, Unions NSW & Others v Commonwealth of Australia, State of Victoria v Commonwealth of Australia).
In 1965 the Martin B-57 Canberra, which entered service in 1953, was the first U.S. jet bomber to drop bombs during combat.
The feast of Saint Martin is celebrated on 11 November, otherwise known as Martinmas.
However 11th November is perhaps equally well known nowadays as the day on which the Armistice came into effect that ended, at 11:00 hours, hostilities in World War One.
2014 is, of course, the centenary year of the outbreak of the War to End All Wars.
In astrology Aquarius is the eleventh sign of the zodiac. In astronomical terms Aquarius is the tenth largest of the eighty eight constellations, with an area of 980 degrees[sup]2[/sup].
10 November 1775 is the Marine Corps’ birthday.
A U.S. Marine Corps detachment stood its ground in the 1814 Battle of Bladensburg even as nearby militia units broke and ran at the approach of a smaller British Army force. The Marines were eventually flanked and forced to retreat in good order. The British went on to briefly occupy Washington, D.C., and burn the Capitol, President’s House and other Federal buildings.
The US Constitution stipulates that the Militia, composed of private citizens bearing arms, is to be well-regulated.
Only one crime is specifically defined in the United States Constitution, treason, a reflection of the Framers’ awareness of how treason prosecutions had widely been used politically in Europe.
When the secessionists founded the Confederate States of America, the only change they made in the Bill of Rights in their Constitution was to remove the comma from the phrase "A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security . . . " The poorly-placed comma was already recognized as an impediment to interpretation of the intended meaning of the founders.
Confederate Motors is a small specialty manufacturer of motorcycles, located in Birmingham, Alabama, after previously locating in Baton Rouge, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Their current models are the Fighter and the Hellcat.
The Grumman F6F Hellcat debuted in 1943 and helped turn the tide of the air war against the Japanese. The Japanese Zero easily and regularly defeated the Hellcat’s predecessor, the Grumman F4F Wildcat. Hellcats were credited with destroying 5,223 aircraft while in service with the U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps and the Royal Navy’s Fleet Air Arm. This was more than any other Allied naval aircraft in the war.
Hayao Miyazaki’s recent animated film *The Wind Rises *(a gorgeous and sensitive work IMHO) tells the almost completely fictionalized biography of Jiro Horikoshi, chief engineer of the Mitsubishi A6M Zero. Miyazaki depicted Horikoshi as having been inspired by dream visits from Italian aeronautical engineer Count Giovanni Caproni.
Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia, whose family name was Dracula, never held a title that corresponds to **“count”. **Dracula is a Romanian word that means “son of the dragon”, and for centuries, Vlad III was revered by Romanians for fiercely defending their lands, almost constantly attacked from one side or another…
Romanian is a romance language, derived from Latin and related to French, Spanish, and Italian.
The Bill of Rights was included in the Confederate Constitution itself, Art. I, Sec. 9, and in the four years the Confederacy existed, the document appears never to have been amended. Even so, Sec. 9 is different from its U.S. analogue.
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_Confederate_States_of_America
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The former Spanish king, Juan Carlos I, retains all of his titles and honors after his abdication earlier this year in favor of his son, Felipe VI.
