Unbeknownst to most of the partisan warriors and nearly all of the cynical scribes around town, you and John Boehner had been huddling in the White House, talking trillions, tracing the heady contours of a grand bargain.
The city, with its many temples, government buildings, and important family businesses, was probably more literate than other towns, and the scribes have left thousands of Sumerian and Akkadian documents written on clay tablets.
Mahesh Prasad Varma was born near the central Indian town of Jabalpur, into a scribe caste family.
Admission to the Napoleon III town house on the Rue Scribe was free.
In this 16th instalment, the sometimes bumbling sleuth visits the wealthy town of Ostia to investigate the disappearance of "Infamia", the anonymous scribe responsible for the gossip column of the Daily Gazette, the tabloid of its day, only to uncover more trouble than he expected, what with sinister Cilician pirates hiding behind the scenes.
Town specialization of labour brought the emergence of potters, weavers, metalworkers, scribes, lawyers, and physicians, while the new surpluses also created the basis for commerce.
While Obama says he reads all the Times' columnists, Washington scribes like Maureen Dowd and Ross Douthat don't show up in "This Town".
Israel was overrun with lowly scribes who hawked sketches of every baby Barabbas and Lazarus in town to scrolls like Shalom, Drek and The Star and the Sun.
The papyrus was bought in 1858 in a Nile resort town by a Scottish antiquary, Alexander Henry Rhind, hence its name; less frequently, it is called the Ahmes papyrus in honour of the scribe who copied it about 1650 bc.
Gore Verbinski's story of a lizard (voiced by Johnny Depp) turned small-town sheriff, also won awards for its character design, its script – co-written by the awards season's favorite scribe, John Logan (also responsible for "Hugo") – and its editing.
