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Rhode Island is the only state in the union founded expressly for religious freedom. It was the first American colony to celebrate, rather than tolerate, the differences among us. In this respect, the fact that Rhode Island is also the
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“Superman and Batman got their start, we think, during the twenty-fourth century. Except for a brief period during the Dark Age, they’ve never gone away.”
― Coming Home
― Coming Home
“When nature called, the men would relieve themselves in a pot at the sideboard without interrupting their conversation, an English custom instituted not so much for convenience as to preempt any excuse for the weak of stomach or head to sneak out before the drinking was finished.”
― The Stranger and the Statesman: James Smithson, John Quincy Adams, and the Making of America's Greatest Museum
― The Stranger and the Statesman: James Smithson, John Quincy Adams, and the Making of America's Greatest Museum
“She’s an Italian flag in occupied territory, and I fall for her like Paris.”
― The Bread We Eat in Dreams
― The Bread We Eat in Dreams
“In reality, France's American territory extended to the west as far as a Frenchman could go without getting shot by a Spaniard, and likewise to the north without getting shot by an Englishman.”
― How the States Got Their Shapes
― How the States Got Their Shapes
“This was a wonderfully surreal moment: the real Montagu addressing his fictional persona, in a work of filmic fiction, based on reality, which had originated in fiction.”
― Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory
― Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory
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