Rebels of the South! It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees. -Inscription dated April 11, 1919, one day after the assassination of Emiliano Zapata, carved on a post at the Borda Garden in Cuernavaca, seen by Frank Tannenbaum in 1923. Peace by Revolution, An Interpretation of Mexico (New York, 1933), page179. Do not wear a shirt of eleven yards, for he who wants to be a Redeemer will be crucified. Guadalajara proverb, quoted in John Reed, Insurgent Mexico. 1914, page 78. Roots of Revolution focuses on the longstanding social and economic ...

The primal place of Christian belonging is at the font, yet what happens there - the words that are spoken and the symoblic actions that take place there - is understood in different ways. In a society that has become so secularised and distanced from its Christian roots, are the language and symbolism of the baptism rite sill meaningful and appropriate? As the church responds afresh to this question today, Kenneth Stevenson revisits a period in Anglican history that is rich in debate and controversy regarding the liturgy of baptism and in the writings ...

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Diminutive Mickey Rooney has been in show business for more than 80 years as actor, producer, writer, composer, and director. His still-active career spans vaudeville, radio, television, the stage, and movies such as It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, The Black Stallion, and The Bridges at Toko-Ri. He won two Golden Globes and an Emmy and has received or been nominated for many other awards. From leading a 17-piece band to writing a novel, Rooney has been dispensing earthy wisdom and good humor in the public eye for many decades. Part biography and part ...

James Branch Cabell and Richmond-in-Virginia by Edgar MacDonald In his prime Vanity Fair nominated James Branch Cabell for "Immortality" on its pages reserved for acclaiming the most select of notable achievers. Favored by the intelligentsia, Cabell was the author of a series of fabulous, well-told fictions that in the 1920s made him a household literary name. Among his many acclaimed books published by 1930 are Jurgen, The Lineage of Lichfield, The Silver Stallion, Something About Eve, The White Robe, and The Works of James Branch Cabell in eighteen volumes. ...

Aeschyli Fabulae est liber qui continet omnes fabulas Aeschyli, poetae Graeci qui vixit in saeculo quinto ante Christum. Hic liber editus est anno MDCCCXCIII. Fabulae Aeschyli sunt notae pro eorum gravitate et profunditate thematum, et multae ex his adhuc leguntur et spectantur in theatro. In hoc libro, legentes inveniunt fabulas quinque: Persae, Septem contra Thebas, Supplices, Agamemnon, et Choephoroe. Fabulae haec omnes habent elementa tragediae, cum personis notis ut Clytemnestra, Orestes, et Electra. Hoc opus est valde significantia in historia litterarum ...

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This mixed methods research study explores assuring travellers' loyalty as a competitive advantage and develops a model of success factors of airlines loyalty programmes. The main issue identified with regards to travellers' loyalty is frequent flyer programmes (FFPs). FFPs are loyalty programmes offered by many airlines. Typically, airline customers enrolled in the programme accumulate frequent flyer miles corresponding to the distance flown on that airline or its partners. To achieve the research aim, two main issues were identified i.e. DEEPLIST factors ...

In this much longer sequel to his earlier collection of Scots-Irish Links, Parts One & Two, David Dobson sheds more light on a segment of the 100,000 Scotsmen who were re-settled by the British government in the Irish Plantation of Ulster during the 17th century. Drawing upon primary source material in the British Museum in London, the Public Record Office and Trinity College in Dublin, the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland in Belfast, as well as Scottish sources not consulted for the earlier volume, Mr. Dobson has come up with an additional 2,500 ...

Often, situations arise where the assumptions of 'perfect' conditions do not hold. In these situations, a bottom-up approach is more useful, rather than the other way round. Hence, Agent-based modelling is quite an attractive approach to model highly complex and unpredictable elements, such as psychology and behaviour, in financial systems. The recent recession has urged economists and researchers to find new and more open techniques, whereby models are broken down into their constituents, and each constituent is modelled separately, allowing the users of ...