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Someone complained to me once about all the different names in War and Peace. This is worse because, instead of names being interchangeable, when someone received a peerage he took on the name of his baronet and it's really annoying trying to keep people's relationships strait when their names are changing every couple chapters.

And 2 Euro Cents literally just fell in my lap.

And now we're into Protestant vs Catholic.

I read today about Queen Elizabeth's bout of smallpox in 1563 and, since it's come up a couple of times in my reading lately, if somehow smallpox were to be reintroduced to the world population we would be screwed since no one under the age of 40 has any immunity to it whatsoever.

"There is only one Christ Jesus and one faith: the rest is a dispute about trifles."
-Elizabeth I, of England

Clearly a woman ahead of her time.

Cracked this puppy open and found out it was my late aunt's.