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Quotes About 1648

My ancestors were Puritans from England. They arrived here in 1648 in the hope of finding greater restrictions than were permissible under English law at that time.
~ Garrison Keillor
In the year 1648, the wicked Ukrainian hetman, Bogdan Chmelnicki, and his followers besieged the city of Zamos? but could not take it, because it was strongly fortified; the rebelling haidamak peasants moved on to spread havoc in Tomaszów, Bilgoraj, KraÅ›nik, Turbin, Frampol - and in Goray, too, the town that lay in the midst of the hills at the end of the world.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer