At the first ceremony, Johnson said that he found the political commonalties of the two countries striking, given that their "ethnic and cultural components" were "totally different".
A matter of significant influence was that many of these important figures had become internationalists in understanding the similarities and commonalties of the plights suffered by African and African-descended peoples due to the shared agendas for racialized oppression and exploitation forged and fostered by White peoples of various nation-states.
This design works — so well that despite the mad variety of visual styles in the book, one comes away with an appreciation for the commonalty of serious comics today.
The message for me was the commonalty of humankind, with the arts transcending global suffering for the evening.
In the 1870 revision the name of the city was changed from "The Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty of the city of Albany" to the "City of Albany".
The charter specified that all land not privately owned at the time became property of the Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty of the city of Albany, including the land that would become the site of Washington Park.
The charter turned the village of Albany into a city under the name of "The Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty of the city of Albany"; this legally separated it from Rensselaerswyck, a nearby colonial estate.
In 1541, Henry VIII granted the friary, together with other dissolved houses, to the Mayor and Commonalty of Bristol for a "consideration of £1,000 cash and a yearly fee farm rent of £20".
And it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the said city of Albany, and their successors, as they shall see cause, to break, change, alter and new make their said common seal, and as often as to them shall seem convenient.
When the city was incorporated by provincial governor Thomas Dongan in 1686 under the Dongan Charter, it was empowered to have its own seal: The said Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of Albany, and their successor shall and may forever hereafter, have one common seal to serve for the sealing of all and singular their affairs and business touching or concerning the said corporation.
Such qualified simplification and inclusivity, wherever they have occurred in human history, seem to have been associated with other fundamental changes increased settlement, extension and intensification of trade, and the emergence of lingua francas and other cultural commonalties, all of which had been occurring in central Arabia for several centuries.
