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The 1643 Martyrologie des chevaliers (Martyrology of knights)

I thought of the Old English root of teach — tæcan , like token, and saw the token being passed like a visible object from teacher to pupil.

There are more avid postage stamp collectors in the United States than welfare recipients.

At the mention of 9/11, everybody went silent. The events of that day had changed Americans, none more than firefighters.

General Raikes watched the antics of the nobles with disdainful interest, like a man studying a group of monkeys at play.

Literature is that which denounces and slashes apart the repressing machine at the level of the signified.

A novel is a book with a lot of pages.

My boys and I all have a weird connection to the movie The Princess Bride.

I don't like doing movies, period. Movies are hard. I like TV.

He'll have nightmares about Kit diving for his knees," Hi added. "I'm pretty sure that was an illegal tackle. Chop block. Something.

I ate with Wolf in the Situation Room. The pizza was good. The conversation did nothing to brighten my mood.

Not one of God's more intelligent creatures." "Basically, a brain stem on two legs.

I'd heard of Nick Body, of course, the fiery provocateur. I'd never listened to a Body broadcast or read one of his blogs.

I don't want to sell the audience on the limitations of my own existence when that's not the point, that's not what I'm interested in.

musicians and microbreweries. The nineteenth-century Downton-Abbey-eat-your-heart-out Vanderbilt house.

The reggae reference was lost on Slidell, whose musical taste ran to C&W and sixties rock and roll. Barrow

Poe's Tavern, miss. That's what you said?

watched CNN for a while. He likes Don Lemon. I prefer Anderson Cooper.

the sternum. To confirm my skeletal estimate, I pulled the postmortem dental

Maybe I'm starting to think like Han. I don't feel quite right about this situation. I'm more nervous than usual.' Han eyed Chewie, who whuffled softly. Yeah, maybe she was picking up a sense of self-preservation. Skywalkers seemed to be born without it.

Dave Barry once satirized Thurmond in his syndicated column, saying he colored his hair with Tang).

Social media for me is a bit like tequila. Feels like it should be fun, but leaves you with an icky taste in your mouth.

Roxy, stop being so obnoxious!" -Joy "I'm never obnoxious; I'm just concerned." -Roxy

You're not related to the Three Stooges are you? 'Cause I could swear this escape scene is one of theirs." ~ Jim