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when Curley, with a flourish, ordered long-handled mops for all the scrubwomen at City Hall and announced that the only time a woman would go down on her knees in his administration would be when “she was praying to Almighty God.”
“In the hundred and fifty years before the great visitation of 1665 there were only a dozen years when London was free from plague.”
― Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England
― Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England
“The human spirit inclines readily toward heresy, arguing against imposed doctrine and challenging the institution that prescribes it.”
― The Middle Ages
― The Middle Ages
“Too much information? No, it’s more like the more you know, the more you wonder.”
― Dinosaurs Without Bones: Dinosaur Lives Revealed by their Trace Fossils
― Dinosaurs Without Bones: Dinosaur Lives Revealed by their Trace Fossils
“Where the French built their own boats and bridges, the Austrians complained that none were to be found.”
― 1809 Thunder On The Danube: Napoleon’s Defeat of the Habsburgs, Vol. III: The Final Clashes of Wagram and Znaim
― 1809 Thunder On The Danube: Napoleon’s Defeat of the Habsburgs, Vol. III: The Final Clashes of Wagram and Znaim
“CHAPTER 8 The Remains of the Day: Dinosaur Vomit, Stomach Contents, Feces, and Other Gut Feelings”
― Dinosaurs Without Bones: Dinosaur Lives Revealed by their Trace Fossils
― Dinosaurs Without Bones: Dinosaur Lives Revealed by their Trace Fossils
John’s 2022 Year in Books
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