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Maureen Dowd bit first, snorting that the "the futile search for the inner Reagan had driven his biographer barking mad" (the New York Times ); Jonathan Yardley (the Washington Post ) retorted that Dowd "seems incapable of a genuinely serious thought" and commanded her and others to "Shut yo' mouf" until they had read the book.
The prize exhibit is the full-size copy of the Royal Galley, La Reial, aboard which Don Juan of Austria commanded the fleet that defeated the Turks at the Battle of Lepanto in 1571.
But in 1596, when it was Spanish territory, an English fleet commanded by Queen Elizabeth I’s favorite, the Earl of Essex, sacked and burned the capital.
Women have always commanded over half the sum total of human intelligence and creativity.
When Lieutenant Governor Simcoe built it in 1793, it commanded a strategic position directly on the lakeshore, facing potential attack from across the American border.