Alan Jacobs

“Hebrew Confederate Cemetery on Shockoe Hill, which is the only Jewish military cemetery in the world outside the state of Israel. The”
― Maureen Egan, Insiders' Guide to Richmond, VA

“Philip was fascinated by the all-absorbing question of the Beatific Vision: whether the souls of the blessed see the face of God immediately upon entering Heaven or whether they have to wait until the Day of Judgment.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

“Jones’s crime was “lithobolia”—hurling stones supernaturally.”
― Malcolm Gaskill, Between Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans

“A break came when Polish intelligence officers created a machine based on a captured German coder that was able to crack some of the Enigma codes. By the time the Poles showed the British their machine, however, it had been rendered ineffective because the Germans had added two more rotors and two more plugboard connections to their Enigma machines.”
― Walter Isaacson, The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution