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forty-two languages,
The Romans actually referred to the study of anagrams as ars magna—“the great art.”
the English word “planets” and told Sophie that an astonishing sixty-two other English words of varying lengths could be formed using those same letters.
Picasso’s masterpiece Les Demoiselles d’Avignon was a perfect anagram of vile meaningless doodles.
“cross” and “crucifix” came from the Latin verb cruciare—to torture.
As Napoleon once said, ‘What is history, but a fable agreed upon?’ ”
More than three thousand people are entombed or enshrined within Westminster Abbey.
Westminster Abbey is considered neither cathedral nor parish church. It bears the classification of royal peculiar, subject only to the Sovereign.
