[T]he seven Imperial electors who chose the [Holy Roman] emperor controlled him by the pledges exacted from him as the price of his election. These electors were the king of Bohemia, the rulers of Saxony, Brandenburg, and the Palatinate, and the spiritual electors—the archbishops of Cologne, Trier, and Mainz.

When the smokejumpers had at last battled it to a standstill, 125,000 square acres of interior Alaskan scrub spruce, white spruce, paper birch, quaking aspen and balsam poplar had been laid waste, not to mention -- and what Kate grudged more -- countless lowbush and highbush cranberry, raspberry, salmonberry, lingonberry and nagoonberry stands.

He just ran across the field bulldozing everyone over.

Theodore Lucas, writing on large schooners in the December 1900 issue of the Nautical Gazette, gave a proposal for a steel eight-masted schooner.