541 research outputs found
Billy Goat
No full textA journalist, author, and politician, Biggers was born September 27, 1868, in Meridian, Texas, and grew up in a ranching environment. He edited and wrote for several West Texas newspapers, served in the Texas Legislature, and was active in land promotion in West Texas and Eastern New Mexico. He authored several books, including History That Will Never Be Repeated (1901), Pictures Of The Past (1902) [both under the pen name Lan Franks], Cattle Range To Cotton Patch (1905), Shackelford County Sketches (1908), and Our Sacred Monkeys (1933). Don Hampton Biggers died at a rest home in Stephenville on December 11, 1957, a month after his wife's death, Nettie."The Billy Goat : Always Buttin' In.""Published Every Time the Signs are Right which Zodiac Event Occurs About Four Times a Month at Rotan, Fisher County, Texas" -- Cover
Julia Franks on her novel Over the Plain Houses: Women, Witches, and Fed-up White Men.
No full textJulia Franks, author of the novel Over the Plain Houses, a finalist for the 2016 Crook’s Corner Prize, on witches, women, and fed-up white men.
Her novel is set in 1939, when the USDA has sent agents into the North Carolina mountains to instruct families on modern agriculture and homemaking. One of them is a young woman with more enthusiasm than experience, but farm wife Irenie Lambey is immediately drawn to the lady-agent’s self-possession. Already, cracks are emerging in Irenie’s marriage to Brodis, an ex-logger turned fundamentalist preacher. To find some time when she’s not beholden to him, she has taken to rambling the night woods, storing the keepsakes of her life in a mountain crevice.
But it’s not long before Brodis becomes suspicious of his wife’s nocturnal life: the midnight excursions, the billowing white nightshirt, the strange talismans, the supernatural stealth. One surreal night he realizes that a certain evil has entered his life. The possibilities unnerve him. Perhaps the malevolence comes from the federal government and the lady agent. Or perhaps it comes from an ancient, more sinister force. This spellbinding debut by Julia Franks is the story of a woman intrigued by the possibility of change and escape—stalked by a Bible-haunted man who fears his government and stakes his integrity upon an older way of life. As Brodis chases his demons, he brings about a final act of violence that shakes the entire valley. Over the Plain Houses bares the myths and mysteries that modernity can’t quite dispel
Rachel Franks, Double Agent: A Librarian and a Crime Author - William Blick Interviews Rachel Franks (January 2024)
No full textThe following is an interview from January 2024 with Librarian and Crime Scholar, Rachel Franks and was posted on the Captivating Criminality Blog:
Rachel Franks is the Coordinator, Scholarship at the State Library of New South Wales and an Honorary Associate Lecture at The University of Newcastle (Australia). She holds PhDs in Australian crime fiction (Central Queensland University) and in true crime texts (University of Sydney). A qualified educator and librarian, her extensive work on crime fiction, true crime, popular culture and information science has been presented at numerous conferences, as well as on radio and television. An award-winning writer, her research can be found in a wide variety of books, journals, magazines and online resources. She is the author of An Uncommon Hangman: The Life and Deaths of Robert ‘Nosey Bob’ Howard (2022)
Billy Goat
No full textA journalist, author, and politician, Biggers was born September 27, 1868, in Meridian, Texas, and grew up in a ranching environment. He edited and wrote for several West Texas newspapers, served in the Texas Legislature, and was active in land promotion in West Texas and Eastern New Mexico. He authored several books, including History That Will Never Be Repeated (1901), Pictures Of The Past (1902) [both under the pen name Lan Franks], Cattle Range To Cotton Patch (1905), Shackelford County Sketches (1908), and Our Sacred Monkeys (1933). Don Hampton Biggers died at a rest home in Stephenville on December 11, 1957, a month after his wife's death, Nettie."The Billy Goat : Always Buttin' In" -- Cover."Published at Rotan, Texas, every time the signs are right, which zodiac event occurs one to four times each month" -- Cover."A Journal of such things as the editor takes a notion to write. Published for anybody that wants it bad enough to pay the price" -- Cover
Company Law – The excesses of legislation
No full textThe author reviews the state of company law in England following from an assertion by the Law Society’s Company Law Committee that company law is not of a high enough standard. Article by John Franks, Chethams published in Amicus Curiae - Journal of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and its Society for Advanced Legal Studies. The Journal is produced by the Society for Advanced Legal Studies at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London
Company Law – The excesses of legislation
No full textThe author reviews the state of company law in England following from an assertion by the Law Society’s Company Law Committee that company law is not of a high enough standard. Article by John Franks, Chethams published in Amicus Curiae - Journal of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and its Society for Advanced Legal Studies. The Journal is produced by the Society for Advanced Legal Studies at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London
Normans and Other Franks in 11th Century Byzantium: the Careers of the Adventurers before the Rule of Alexius I Comnenus
No full textThe paper examines the Frankish presence in Byzantium during 11th century. It was stressed that the mentioned period was the time of a great influx of westerners to the East. At first,
most of them visited Constantinople as pilgrims during return journey from the Holy Land. The
author points out that the term Franks (Frankoi) was basically attributed to the Eastern Franks/Germans,
while in the course of time the Byzantines started to use it to identify rather Western Franks
(i.e. French, Normans, Burgundians etc.). The author studies the circumstances in which the new
mercenaries and adventurers meet the Empire, trying to define the reason of their success. Another
issue investigated in the text is the extent to which Franks got promoted within the social hierarchy in Byzantium during the 11th century. Finally, the author argues that before the presence of great families such as Petraliphai, Raoul or Rogerioi there was at least one house of Frankish descent, which was raised significantly earlier and whose founder was Hervé Frankopoulos
Wieso sollte Anne Franks Tagebuch nicht gemeinfrei werden?
No full texthttp://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/anne-franks-diary-in-a-copyright-law-paradox-70-years-after-her-death/article27244584 Nach deutschem Recht ist es eindeutig: Am 1. Januar 2016 werden die urheberrechtlich geschützten Werke von Anne Frank gemeinfrei. Der Text der kritischen Edition von 1986 war nach § 71 UrhG nur 25 Jahre geschützt, also bis 2011. Update: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/14/books/anne-frank-has-a-co-as-diary-gains-co-author-in-legal-move.html?_r=1 http://www.univie.ac.at..
Diversity between Panels of the Franks Casket – Spelling and Runic Paleography
No full textThe Franks Casket, a small whalebone box from about 700 AD, contains 59 Old English
words inscribed in runes. Systematic differences between its panels have never called into
question the standard procedure of explaining one panel basing on the others. The present
paper aims at a re-examination of the validity of this approach. The panels show a large
enough differentiation of spelling and paleographical features to exclude the possibility of
a single author for the whole Casket
Ownership: Evolution and Regulation
No full textThis article is the first study of long-run evolution of investor protection and corporate ownership in the United Kingdom over the twentieth century. Formal investor protection emerged only in the second half of the century. We assess the influence of investor protection on ownership by comparing cross-sections of firms at different times in the century and the evolution of firms incorporating at different stages of the century. Investor protection had little impact on dispersion of ownership: even in the absence of investor protection, rates of dispersion of ownership were high, associated primarily with mergers. Preliminary evidence suggests that ownership dispersion in the United Kingdom relied more on informal relations of trust than on formal investor protection. The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Society for Financial Studies. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: [email protected]., Oxford University Press.
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