Castles Quotes
This quotation is often misunderstood. At the time there were a number of siege machines that were used to batter or breach the walls of towns, forts or castles. However, really good architects (actually military engineers and architects were the same at the time) were able to design countermeasures to thwart the machines by analyzing the principles of the siege machines and creating counter machines, structures and tactics. This point was that the clever architects were necessary and able to save nations. Most of these have got unheralded at the time or in history except for a few like Leonardo Da Vinci who is today known as a great artist and futurist but was mainly known his his own time as a military engineer.
The Kuomintang was the anti-Communist political party controlled by Chaing Kai Chek and the major opponent of the Communists. It took more than another decade but Mau and the Communists with the vast support of the majority of the masses, did indeed take over all of China. At the time few thought that they would ever do it.
In the reign of King Stephen of England, 1135-1154
This was Mr. Mahoney's slogan for the 1966 Maryland gubernatorial campaign. The white backlash vote he intended to win cast their ballots instead for the more moderate candidate—Republican Spiro Agnew.
