Topic: David Starkey
The 16th century in Italy marked the high and low points of the Renaissance, Michelangelo's David and Sistine Chapel and Raphael's frescoes in the Papal Stanze at its beginning, but at its end, the chaos of a thousand minor Mannerists ...
Lawrence W. Sinnott - Chief Financial Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Executive Vice President, Treasurer. Versar, Inc. (VSR) F1Q09 Earnings Call November 10, 2008 2:00 pm ET. With me are Versar's President and CEO, Ted Prociv, and our Executive Vice President, Chief ...
FROM THE MIDDLE AGES TO MODERNITY by David Starkey HarperCollins, David Starkey's latest book has a Gibbonesque moment. Starkey is little interested in praising or denigrating England's monarchs (though Charles I is treated rather kindly and Anne comes out on ...
A publisher has just reprinted, in time for its centenary, H.E. Marshall's Our Island Story (Galore Park, Good people are rewarded and bad people, such as King John and Richard III, meet unhappy and well-deserved ends. This amiable view of ...
If, in January of 1547, you had been present as Henry VIII died - standing at his bedside with the ghosts of his wives and other spectral decapitees, watching his mute, terrified grab at Archbishop Cranmer's hand - you would have found it ...
THE royal park at Greenwich will be ruined if Olympics organisers stage the 2012 equestrian competitions there, the historian David Starkey claimed today.. Olympics organisers claim they will be able to protect the park and restore it to its original condition once ...
The historian David Starkey has lambasted the BBC over the swashbuckling dramatisation The Tudors, saying the corporation should be ashamed of the series, which features the increasingly bloated Henry VIII played by the lissom Irish actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers, usually half naked ...
VIRTUOUS PRINCE by David Starkey HarperPress 25, pp. 'We did.' 'Who are you?' 'We're Henry the Eighth, we are.' David Starkey's new book adds an extra valency to this joke. This younger Henry -- the 'virtuous prince' of the subtitle -- is ...
Versar, Inc. (VSR) F4Q08 Earnings Call September 23, 2008 2:00 pm ET. The highlights for fiscal year 2008 are gross revenues as well as earnings continue to be at record levels for fiscal year 2008. The majority of that increase came ...
Frequency Electronics, Inc. (FEIM) F1Q09 Earnings Call September 15, 2008 2:00 pm ET. What I'd like to do now is introduce our two other participants Alan Miller, who's our Chief Financial Officer, and Martin Bloch, our Chief Executive Officer ...