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"William Clerk was the clerk to the Privy Chamber of Henry VIII of England. He was a clerk to the Privy Seal from 1542 to 1548 and had permission to use the dry stamp bearing the King's signature from September 1545.[1]"
"and who lived for some five years in Italy (Bologna, Padua, etc.), where he wrote a defence of king Henry VIII" He was an Italian scholar...
" As Adair points out, William Thomas was the first 'Englishman' to show in his writings some knowledge and appreciation of Machiavelliand his political philosophy"
"For many years he served as a senior official in the Florentine Republic with responsibilities in diplomatic and military affairs...
Machiavelli was appointed to an office of the second chancery, a medieval writing office that put Machiavelli in charge of the production of official Florentine government documents...
In the first decade of the sixteenth century, he carried out several diplomatic missions, most notably to the papacy in Rome....
Florence sent him to Pistoia to pacify the leaders of two opposing factions which had broken into riots in 1501 and 1502;...
Other excursions (trips) to the court of Louis XII and the Spanish court influenced his writings such as The Prince...."
"From 1502 to 1503, he witnessed the brutal reality of the state-building methods of Cesare Borgia (1475–1507) and his father, Pope Alexander VI, who were then engaged in the process of trying to bring a large part of central Italy under their possession."
"On the accession of Mary, Thomas lost all his preferments, including his clerkship. He took an active part in Wyatt's conspiracy, 1553-4, was arrested, accused of conspiring the death of Mary, and executed (18 May 1554)."
" It was given its name by the attorney at Wyatt's arraignment, who stated for the record that "this shall be ever called Wyat's Rebellion""
"David Loades states that “the main reasons which lay behind the rising were secular and political",[2] but on the other hand Malcolm Thorp notes that “With but few exceptions, the leading conspirators were Protestants, and religious concerns were an important part of their decision to oppose Mary”."
"William Thomas
Thomas was an avowed Protestant who was known as a “hot gospeller”[28]and is viewed by some historians as the original leader of the rebellion.[29]"
"The Holy Roman Empire finally began its true terminal decline during and after its involvement in the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars."
"It's amazing my friend but it literally is right in our face and all around us.
Someone suggested on here to actually read the Treaty of Paris that ended the Revolutionary War stating that it didn't really look like we won the Revolutionary War the way the Treaty actually is laid out and reads.
I got bored one night and read it and was pretty amazed and started searching out the meaning of various titles involved with the players.
One title led to another, to another, to another treaty, to another treaty, to another treaty, eventually it led me to the Council of Eight and that Rome rules us in such a conclusive way I was literally in shock. I actually couldn't even sleep for two days as I tried to just absorb the magnitude of it all and internalize it.
Treaties are Contracts. Legally binding Contracts between entities. It takes some time to read them, to research the lanquage, the titles and the meanings but the bottom line is it's all in the Contracts and a Contract is a Contract!
It truly gives new meaing, though I imagine the real meaning of "The Devils in the details".
In my humble opinion not only does Rome secretly rule us but that we all are in fact slaves in the Roman Empire, economic free range slaves.
All Roads lead to Rome in my humble opinion."
"The site is significant because the inhabitants of Abu Hureyra started out as hunter-gatherers but gradually moved to farming, making them the earliest known farmers in the world." Now it is : "Abu Hureyra is a tell, or ancient settlement mound, in modern-day Raqqa Governorate in northern Syria. "
"In archaeology a tell or tel (borrowed into English from Arabic: تَلّ, tall, 'mound' or 'small hill')[1] is an artificial topographical feature, a mound consisting of the accumulated and stratified debris of a succession of consecutive settlements at the same site, the refuse of generations of people who built and inhabited them and natural sediment.[2][3][4][5]"
"As crucial as rivers and marshlands were to the rise of civilization in the Fertile Crescent, they were not the only factor. The area is geographically important as the "bridge" between North Africa and Eurasia, which has allowed it to retain a greater amount of biodiversity than either Europe or North Africa, where climate changes during the Ice Age led to repeated extinction events when ecosystems became squeezed against the waters of the Mediterranean Sea. The Saharan pump theory posits that this Middle Eastern land bridge was extremely important to the modern distribution of Old World flora and fauna, including the spread of humanity.[citation needed]
The area has borne the brunt of the tectonic divergence between the African and Arabian plates and the converging Arabian and Eurasian plates, which has made the region a very diverse zone of high snow-covered mountains.[citation needed]
The Fertile Crescent had many diverse climates, and major climatic changes encouraged the evolution of many "r" type annual plants, which produce more edible seeds than "K" type perennial plants. The region's dramatic variety in elevation gave rise to many species of edible plants for early experiments in cultivation. Most importantly, the Fertile Crescent was home to the eight Neolithic founder crops important in early agriculture (i.e., wild progenitors to emmer wheat, einkorn, barley, flax, chick pea, pea, lentil, bitter vetch), and four of the five most important species of domesticated animals—cows, goats, sheep, and pigs; the fifth species, the horse, lived nearby.[13] The Fertile Crescent flora comprises a high percentage of plants that can self-pollinate, but may also be cross-pollinated.[13] These plants, called "selfers", were one of the geographical advantages of the area because they did not depend on other plants for reproduction.[13]"
originally posted by: xuenchen
Many scholars believe things have always been rigged and fixed based on corruption, lies, and cheating. All the way back to when life began to think and talk, and write and read. Like maybe seeking the answer to which came first: "reading" or "writing"? Without the other, neither is possible, right? 💲
originally posted by: andy06shake
a reply to: xuenchen
Both skills are interconnected and reinforce each other.
Reading enhances writing by providing exposure to different writing styles, vocabulary, and ideas.
While writing reinforces reading by requiring comprehension and analysis.
But for the first "writing" to happen, somebody had to be able to "Read". So the "writing" had to be necessary to be able to "Read". So which came first before the other??
In English and American law. An order or direction, emanating from authority, to an officer or body of officers, commanding him or them to do some act within the scope of their powers.
Precept is not to be confined to civil proceedings, and is not of a more restricted meaning than “process.” It includes warrants and processes in criminal as well as civil proceedings. Adams v. Vose, 1 Gray (Mass.) 51, 58. “Precept” means a commandment in writing, sent out by a justice of the peace or PRECEPT 929.
But where you have wheat, historically, you have state control or its like.
The intriguing question is: if wheat-growing altered our corporeal structure, did it alter our brain? Did the systematic rituals and requirements of planting and harvesting wheat change our brains to make us more docile? Organised? Cooperative? Disconnected from nature? Did it turn us away from animism to praise of Ceres, goddess of grain crops, and then to an abstract, monolithic God of whom we ask our daily bread.
But if meat tandems with liberty, then wheat, historically, comes chained to tyranny.
The blight that is wheat took root 10,000 years ago, when Triticum aestivum, or bread wheat, was domesticated from wild grasses in the “Fertile Crescent” of the Middle East. Initially, the local Neolithics cultivated wheat alongside traditional hunter-gathering and incipient pastoralism (livestock farming). But wheat is a slave-master, demanding in its specific and daily needs, not least the endless — or so it seems to us who have ever grown the stuff — weeding. Wheat locked us into a seasonal cycle of planting, weeding and harvesting from which we have been unable to escape ever since. It also made us more sedentary, both in terms of chaining us to static settlements, and becoming less active. Guarding a wheat field from wild boar requires less energy than hunting wild boar; the lineal ancestor of the couch potato was the campfire bun.
Crop-watching may demand little energy, but it is demanding of time. With fewer hours to hunt and to forage, we settled for a restricted diet. At Abu Hereyra in Syria,