Author: F L Light
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Julian’s Sophistic
The First Sophistic was in the fifth and fourth centuries BCE, including such Sophists as Gorgias, Protagoras, Isocrates and Antiphon. In the Second Sophistic of the early Roman Empire, the study and practice of classical Greek rhetoric and oratory was encouraged by the Patrician class in all the cities of the imperial provinces. Wealthy Plebeians…
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Jay Gould repurchases the Union Pacific
Union Pacific Priced, A drama of the Gouldium SAMPLE Jay Gould, though consumption has first come forth into his lungs, purchases the sovereign share of Union Pacific, a railroad of indebted frailty, frailer becoming while rates decline throughout the West. His health and his wife’s, who is more ill than he, must be avowed. How…
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Jay Gould versus the Knights of Labor
Variance Part 2 – Scene 1 (mp3) At Labored Variance an historical drama by F L Light In three forcible disruptions, first in April 1885 and last in March-April 1886, the Knights of Labor assailed locomotive operations or stopped work on railroads which were controlled directly or influentially by Jay Gould. Though both Terence Powderly, the…