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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

...know about them. Yet, the truth is different. The English physicist Stephen William Hawking proved that in the vicinity of tiny black holes,... ...a well-managed, shrewd despotism." The National Geographic describes how: "William Tudor, the American consul at Lima, wrote in 1826 of the... ... hankering after a crown.' In Bogotá the U. S. minister and future president, Gen. William Henry Harrison, accused Bolívar of planning to turn Gran... ...hijacker". In Spanish "filibustero" meant "freebooting" and applied to 16th century privateers. Irregular military adventurers, mercenaries and guer... ...3035/prions.html http://www.ohsu.edu/cliniweb/C10/C10.228.228.800.html Progeria Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome, discovered in 1886, causes...

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The Whole History of Grandfathers Chair or True Stories from New England History, 1620-1808

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

... Johnson,” said he, “Grandfather’s chair came into the possession of Roger Williams. He was a clergyman, who arrived at Salem, and settled there in 16... ...o the learned men of New England.” Grandfather went on to talk about Roger Williams, and told the children several particulars, which we have not room... ...ed to remain among them. However, the wilderness was wide enough; so Roger Williams took his staff and travelled into the forest and made treaties wit... ...ger Williams was banished, he appears to have given the chair to Mrs. Anne Hutchinson. At all events, it was in her possession in 1687. She was a very... ... in Boston once or twice a week, at which most of the women attended. Mrs. Hutchinson presided at these meetings, sitting with great state and dignity... ... its carved elbow. “Why not, my dear Clara?” said Grandfather. “Well, Mrs. Hutchinson’s lectures soon caused a great disturbance; for the ministers of... ...ovince House ball. And there, not unfrequently, sat the rough captain of a privateer, just returned from a successful cruise, in which he had captured...

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Autobiographic Sketches Selections, Grave and Gay

By: Thomas de Quincey

...four sisters, though never counting more than six living at once, viz., 1. William, older than myself by more than five years; 2. Elizabeth; 3. Jane, ... ...en- tre of the lawn stood my eldest surviving sister, Mary, and my brother William. Round him, attracted (as ever) by his inexhaustible opulence of th... ...apparently had not the en- ergy to attempt it by a flying leap. My brother William, who did not in the least suspect the real danger, invited the dog ... ...of the royal army. General Lake (the Lord Lake of India) and Major General Hutchinson (the Lord Hutchinson of Egypt) had assembled upon this point a r... ...I believe) by Woodes Rogers, from the log book of the Duke and Duchess,—(a privateer fitted out, to the best of my remembrance, by the Bristol mer- ch...

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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin with Introduction and Notes Edited

By: Charles W. Eliot

...tmaster through his share in divulging to Massachusetts the famous letter of Hutchinson and Oliver. On his arrival in Philadelphia he was chosen a mem... ...ty good workman, I offer’d my ser vice to the printer in the place, old Mr. William Bradford, who had been the first printer in Pennsylvania, but rem... ...uch a light as to convince him I was not so wrong as he had apprehended. Sir William Keith, governor of the province, was then at Newcastle, and Capta... ...h governments. On my doubt ing whether my father would assist me in it, Sir William said he would give me a letter to him, in which he would state th... ... morning, and by running in the night might escape the notice of the enemy’s privateers, who often crus’d near the entrance of the channel. Accordingl...

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