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Huou, Kublai Khan's court chef, wrote a collection of recipes called " The Important Things to Know About Eating and Drinking " in the 13th century ; it includes mainly soups as well as household advice.
Additionally, she wrote a column for FHM, and currently writes a nationally syndicated automotive column titled " Courtney Hansen: Full Throttle ", and is the published author of The Garage Girl's Guide To Everything You Need To Know About Your Car ( ISBN 1581825196 ), a book offering women and first time car buyers advice on how to care for their cars.
In addition to his column, he has released a book entitled, “ Your Girlfriends Only Know So Much ” ( Simon & Schuster ), that gives dating advice to African-American women.

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" Unfortunately for his memory the theologians whose advice he took were ultimately discredited and the malcontents whom he pressed to conform emerged victorious ," writes the historian A. H. M.
Today, the City University is governed by the Board of Trustees composed of 17 members, ten of whom are appointed by the Governor of New York " with the advice and consent of the senate ," and five by the Mayor of New York City " with the advice and consent of the senate.
He offered some practical home-spun advice on the general subject, though, as when he referred to avarice as " the spur of industry ," and expressed concern about excessive levels of taxation, which " destroy industry, by engendering despair.
Urban legends typically include one or more common elements: the legend is retold on behalf of the original witness or participant ; dire warnings are often given for those who might not heed the advice or lesson contained therein ( this is a typical element of many e-mail phishing scams ); and it is often touted as " something a friend told me ," while the friend is identified by first name only or not identified at all.
" The result of such advice was to awaken immediately all the insecurity in the non-musical part of Bruckner's personality ," musicologist Deryck Cooke writes.
With Savonarola ’ s advice and support ( as a non-citizen and cleric he was ineligible to hold office ), a Savonarolan political " party ," dubbed ‘ the Frateschi ,’ took shape and steered the friar ’ s program through the councils.
Each message had advice that he needed to follow ( such as " Do not bother this giant person ," " Go away ," " Duck!
The would-be mothers recoil from this advice, but an augur, " recently arrived from Etruscan soil ," offers a ritual dodge: a goat was killed, and its hide cut into strips for flagellating women who wished to conceive ; thus the aetiology for the practice at the Lupercalia.
Citizens had been especially concerned that if the borough chose to follow the consultant's advice to " monetize the system ," that the system would be sold to a multinational corporation, as was an increasing trend throughout the region.
Others suppressed sexual climax, and sought medical advice for this " problem ," and even underwent surgery.
" King George VI, as King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, addressed his letters of credence to the " King of Italy "; however, as King of Ireland, on the advice of the Irish government of Éamon de Valera, he addressed his letters of credence to the " King of Italy and Emperor of Abyssinia ," because the Irish Free State, unlike the United Kingdom, recognized the King of Italy's imperial title.
Consequently, on the advice of Her Majesty's Government, Queen Elizabeth II for a time addressed letters of credence to the President of Ireland by name ( e. g., " President Robinson ," " President McAleese ," etc .).
Marot was dead, but he left numerous followers, some of whom saw in the stricter literary critique of the Pléiade, in its outspoken contempt of merely vernacular and medieval forms, in its strenuous advice to French poetry to " follow the ancients ," and so forth, an insult to the author of the Adolescence Clémentine and his school.
Schleiermacher wondered whether there could be a hermeneutics that was not a collection of pieces of ad hoc advice for the solution of specific problems with text interpretation but rather a " general hermeneutics ," which dealt with the " art of understanding " as such, which pertained to the structure and function of understanding wherever it occurs.
Steve Jobs, when he was considering returning to be Apple's CEO, called Grove, who was someone he " idolized ," for his personal advice.
This play, originally intended to be a tragedy, but on Blumenthal's advice given a " happy ending ," was a pseudo-Nietzschean attack on the morality of the lowly.
He applied to law school at Stanford and the University of Michigan, but on the advice of his friend Russell Green's father to " look East ," he applied to Harvard Law School, which he ended up attending.
Ignoring their record label's advice and vowing to " fight or fall ," the group's next album, 2112, ultimately paved the way for lasting commercial success despite opening with a 20-and-a-half-minute conceptual title track.
Given the repetition of " early ," presumably this is advice to harvest nettles first thing in the morning and to cut them back hard seems to contradict the advice of the Royal Horticultural Society.
Polonius's most famous lines are found in Act 1, Scene 3, when he gives advice to his son Laertes in the form of sententious maxims: " To thine own self be true ," as well as other phrases still in use today, such as " Neither a borrower nor a lender be " and enduring paraphrased aphorisms as: “ Clothes make the man ”; and “ Old friends are the best friends .” Among his famous lines are also the lines: " Brevity is the soul of wit "; and " Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.

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His advice, his voice saying his poems, the fact that he had not so much as touched her -- on the contrary, he had put his head back and she had stroked his hair -- this was all new.
Burnside, against the advice of the president, prematurely launched an offensive across the Rappahannock River and was stunningly defeated by Lee at Fredericksburg in December.
One important piece of advice Yamamoto gave Kurosawa was that a good director needed to master screenwriting.
His advice to Augustine of Hippo on this point was to follow local liturgical custom.
Hushai convinced Absalom to ignore Ahithophel's advice to attack his father while he was on the run, and instead prepare his forces for a major attack.
Furthermore, to aid the conspiracy Maria had adopted Alexios as her son, though she was only five years older than he Maria was persuaded to do so on the advice of her own " Alans " and her eunuchs, who had been instigated to do his by Isaac Komnenos.
It was contrary to Absalon's advice and warnings that Valdemar I rendered fealty to the emperor Frederick Barbarossa at Dole in 1162.
Previously ( from 1992 until 1995 ), the advice was that men should drink no more than 21 units per week, and women no more than 14.
This provision was repealed early in Queen Anne's reign, as many councillors ceased to offer advice and some stopped attending meetings altogether.
David's plan of building a temple for the Ark was stopped at the advice of God ( 2 Sam.
The advice was to father a son with his own daughter, Pelopia, and that son would kill Atreus.
In 1997, a memorandum of understanding between the US and four of the former USSR states was signed and subject to ratification by each signatory, but it was not presented to the US Senate for advice and consent by Bill Clinton.
Jerome Robbins was called in by director George Abbott and producer Hal Prince to give advice and make changes.
The money was devoted largely to developing “ technical advice on the conduct of defoliation and anti-crop activities in Southeast Asia .” By the end of fiscal year 1962, the Chemical Corps had let or were negotiating contracts for over one thousand chemical defoliants.
Hezekiah then took Isaiah's advice and threw himself on the protection of God, and Jerusalem was saved.
The large contingent furnished by Egypt gave her advice as much weight as her personal influence over Antony ; and it appears that this movement was really resolved upon.
This demanded that the inferior must give advice to his superior if the superior was considered to be taking the course of action that was wrong.
He was similarly appreciative of them and gave them due credit for policies where he had used their advice.
Back in the United States, Lynch returned to Virginia, but since his parents had moved to Walnut Creek, California, he was forced to stay with his friend Tony Keeler for a while, before he decided to move to the city of Philadelphia, where, at the advice of Jack Fisk, who was already attending it, he decided to enroll at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, something he preferred far more than his previous art college in Boston, claiming that " In Philadelphia there were great and serious painters, and everybody was inspiring one another and it was a beautiful time there.

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