His The History of England was his big hit in his lifetime.
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(() (()) (() (())) (() (()) (() (()))))By saying yes, she was, in effect, Amazon's first investor, and worked there in the early days. The value of positive support from family cannot be underestimated (see also Jeff Bezos' parents' early investment in the company).
I won: a case of wine, a garden hose, tickets to a play, tickets to a concert, tickets to a book festival event (from the Guardian, in fact).
You'll soon notice the discomfort of doing without a purchase you do need (so now you can buy it); you won't notice the lack of something you don't need.
But you don't have to choose just one type of third or fifth etc. in a given piece of music (or part thereof). You can have a single melodic phrase that uses both the major and the minor third, but I think of these as two different `inflections' of the same degree of the scale, the third.
Likewise, you can have a chord that contains more than one version of the same degree of the scale. In the chord E7#9 (E, G#, B, D, F##) the G on the top is being described as F##, but what I hear is two different versions of the third (major and minor) simultaneously.
Blues music certainly thinks in this way. When a blues musician bends around on the third or fourth, it's all the one note, but `inflecting' or `embelishing' that note.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/LispBook/index.html
— which, yes, is a wonderful book for a complete beginner.
But yes, modern technology is just too damn convenient — I say, having just finished listening to an album on a streaming service, despite having a vinyl copy of it less than a metre away from where I sit, and two working turntables less than a metre away from where I sit.
I don't think it was this snow patch, but it was in the same area of the Cairngorms.
Fair enough if Disney etc. want to keep new stuff exclusive to them. Also, fair enough if certain big evergreen content is kept exclusive (Star Wars, classic Disney movies etc.).
But, seriously, why can't I go to one service and watch every Cary Grant movie, or every movie directed by John Ford, or every episode of Remington Steele, or every episode of Matlock or whatever.
The others would be The Departed — I loved the original Hong Kong movie Infernal Affairs, but I couldn't bear to watch more than a few minutes of The Departed. And the David Lynch Dune.
Usually I tough it out, L.A. Confidential, for example, I thought was awful, but saw it through to the end. I couldn't believe that the same director (Curtis Hanson) could have made such an awful (though, stangely, lauded) film and also the absolutely amazing Wonder Boys (and the servicable The Hand That Rocks the Cradle).
(Edit: I probably shouldn't have made this comment. Let's just say I am not disagreeing with you.)
In the late 2000s, inside a university library copy of the 2003 edition of the Clocksin and Mellish book Programming in Prolog I found a print-out (dot-matrix, by the look of it) of an email sent in 1988 from one of the authors of the book to the other, regarding how to revise it for a future edition.
Another record I had this with recently was Change - Paradise (I've just put this on, and no I'm not at all sick of it!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9l4aSg3u0s
They've dug holes in my lawn, killed a sapling by digging into its pot. And they are so tame you have to chase them off from close quarters.
Recording A Room In A Room 20 Times - Audio Inception https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIlT7U0ILu4
Over 1000 Vintage Synthesizers all in one room, I felt like a kid in a candy shop. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XrPLBSlopQ