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Honeymoon The month after marriage, or so much of it as is spent away from home; so called from the
practice of the ancient Teutons of drinking honey-wine (hydromel) for thirty days after marriage. Attila,
the Hun, indulged so freely in hydromel at his wedding-feast that he died.
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Hopkins (Matthew), of Manningtree, Essex, the witch-finder of the associated counties of Essex, Suffolk,
Norfolk, and Huntingdonshire. In one year he hanged sixty reputed witches in Essex alone. Dr. Z. Grey
says that between three and four thousand persons suffered death for witchcraft between 1643 and 1661.
Nicholas Hopkins. A Carthusian friar, confessor of the Duke of Buckingham, who prophesied "that
neither the king (Henry VIII.) nor his heirs should prosper, but that the Duke of Buckingham should
govern England.
Three of four thousand makes the Salem witch executions look like small potatoes.
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Houri (pl. Houris). The large blackeyed damsels of Paradise, possessed of perpetual youth and beauty,
whose virginity is renewable at pleasure. Every believer will have seventy-two of these houris in Paradise,
and his intercourse with them will be fruitful or otherwise, according to his wish. If an offspring is desired,
it will grow to full estate in an hour. (Persian, huri; Arabic, huriya, nymphs of paradise. Compare ahivar,
black-eyed.) (The Koran.)
Oh, Death, where is thy sting? A recent copy of NEWSWEEK said a number of Muslim scholars say this
promise in the Koran is due to a calligraphic error, and should mean "a bunch of grapes".
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Huguenot (U-gue-no). First applied to the Reformed Church party in the Amboise Plot (1560). From the
German cidgenosscn (confederates)
Huguenot Pope (La pape des Huguenots). Philippe de Mornay, the great supporter of the French
Protestants. (1549-1623.)
This really surprised me!
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I work a few doors up from the Perth Ice Works - which has been in business at the same premises for decades. Not only do they sell ice, but they are licensed to sell alcohol as well.
Noticed on my Friday afternoon ("beer o'clock") pilgramage there last week that they have a new sign in front:
Perth Ice Works. Purveyors of Grog. Ice by the Bag or Block.
Jack lived there until my arrival.
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Latest Smithsonian magazine has story about enterprising Bostonian who got rich shipping harvested ice around the world. So enterprising he contrived to keep a guy who had invented an ice making machine from selling a single one. http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issues02/jul02/object.html
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>> he contrived to keep a guy who had invented an ice making machine from selling a single one.
That's what inventor Gorie suspected, anyway. Don't know if it was sour grapes. "Gorrie suspected that Frederic Tudor had spearheaded a smear campaign against him and his invention."
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I believe inventor Gorrie was correct. Tudor was rich enough to have crossed a lot of palms
with silver.
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In the same issue there's an article wondering if Thor Heyerdahl was a sham.
For some odd reason it's not in the online edition though. In the paper edition it's just before wwh's article, and the table of contents says
>Presence of Mind: Kon Artist?
>Thor Heyerdahl's adventures sparked interest in archaeology and anthropology - but was he more shaman than scholar?
>by Richard Conniff
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wwh, to you last, "could do wrong" doesn't equal "did do wrong"
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