Head of the Commonwealth

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on pebbles of bandicoot crap. The arrival of stock herds brought feast days. The happy flies banqueted on great sloppy plops of cow shit. They owned the outback. They swarmed and swirled and buzzed and bit. Women and men wore veils, shrouded their heads with mosquito net or dangled corks from their hats. Still, the flies came.…

even further that suggests that, sometime after 1684, the wind blew the head from its display at Westminster Abbey and it was picked up and taken by an English soldier. Beyond that, it is claimed that it was passed down, generation-to-generation, until it was laid to rest at Sidney Sussex College in Cambridge (The Economist). This suggestion could very well be true. Jonathan Fitzgibbons addresses it, and confirms that the head that ended up in Cambridge was actually Cromwell’s, thanks to the…

Douglas, was born October 20th, 1904. He was a Scottish-born Baptist minister who became a significant Canadian social democratic politician. He was a leader of the Saskatchewan Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) in 1942, and also was the seventh Premier of Saskatchewan from 1944 to 1961. He was at the head of the first socialist government in North America and introduced universal public health care (Medicare), to Canada. He passed away February 24th, 1986. I believe that Tommy Douglas…

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Introduction Early Puritans established many small towns in the new frontier which came to be known as New England. In these new towns, small commonwealths, otherwise known as families, created the framework for everyday life. The basic structure of a Puritan family was patriarchal. This type of structure creates very defined gender roles in a society. All of the governmental, ideological, and social values of a society must mirror the structures of each other in order for the society to…

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Federalism is a political concept in which a group of members are bound together by covenant with a governing representative head. The term "federalism" is also used to describe a system of government in which sovereignty is constitutionally divided between a central governing authority and constituent political units . Federalism is a system based upon democratic rules and institutions in which the power to govern is shared between national and provincial/state governments, creating what is…

prove to her people and the rest of the world that she truly cared about people. To prove she really cared she risked her life to help fight in World War ll by joining the Women's branch of the british army(Wikipedia) She later became the head of commonwealth ( Wikipedia). She is the known as the longest reigning monarch in British history, which means she has served her country for the longest time(“Queen Elizabeth”). Find out what she did to save her country from the terrifying experience…

I have always been fond of museums. However, besides on the island of the Commonwealth of Dominica, I have never received the opportunity to experience or admire another country’s museum. As such, this opportunity has not only been to complete a history assignment with excellence, but, it has allowed me to cling to the museum as it is now my favorite place at the Grambling State University. Furthermore, such experience has granted me the long-awaited chance to embrace another country’s museum.…