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Arise Evans had a fungous Nose and said, it was revealed to him, that the King's hand would cure him. At the first coming of Charles II into St James's Park he kissed the King's hand and rubbed his Nose with it: which disturbed the King, but cured him.
Thus in a royal swoop unanimously perceived as sudden, unexpected, astounding and unheard of, the knights of a religious order which had come to symbolise in its white mantle and red cross the essence of medieval knighthood, which was said to possess 9,000 manors scattered throughout Europe, and which, owing to their efficiency and capillary structure, facilitated payments and tax collection, managed the royal treasuries of England and France, found themselves quite literally thrown from a position of wealth and power into stinking dungeons. The "what should be" never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no
"what should be," there is only what is.
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All my humor is based on destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standing in the breadline – right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.
Lenny Bruce
I hate small towns because once you've seen the cannon in the park there's nothing else to do.
Lenny Bruce, American comedian, born on October 13, 1925
I'll die young but it's like kissing God.
Lenny Bruce; on heroin addiction
"Life" is a four-letter word.
Lenny Bruce
They beat the crap outta me but I proved I was a man. They kept beating me but I didn't give them no names.
Lenny Bruce
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Lenny Bruce quotes at Wikiquote
I am certain that we will win the election with a good majority. Not that I am ever over-confident.
Margaret Thatcher, British prime minister, born on October 13, 1925
I don't think there will be a woman Prime
Minister in my lifetime.
Margaret Thatcher; on Val meets the VIPs, BBC
Television (5 March, 1973)
My job is to stop Britain going red.
Margaret Thatcher; November
3, 1977
No-one would remember the Good Samaritan if
he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well.
Margaret Thatcher; TV
Interview for London Weekend Television Weekend World (6 January,
1980)
Economics are the method; the object is to change the heart and soul.
Margaret Thatcher; Interview
for The Sunday Times (1 May, 1981)
There's no such thing as society.
Margaret Thatcher; Interview
on (September 23,
1987), published in Woman's Own (October
31, 1987)
On my way here I passed a local
cinema and it turns out you were expecting me after all, for the
billboards read: The
Mummy Returns.
Margaret Thatcher; Speech
to Conservative Election Rally in Plymouth (22 May, 2001)
More Margaret Thatcher quotes at Wikiquote
October 13
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the 286th
day of the year in the Gregorian
Calendar (287th in leap years), with 79 days remaining.
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Fontinalia,
garlanding of fountains, Roman
Empire
Festival dedicated to Fontus (Fons), the god of wells and springs and son of Juturna and Janus. From this God's name and the Latin word font or fons we derive the names of fountain, the baptismal font and the fonts, or typefaces, that we use most days.
The latter comes from the font, or well, of hot metal (usually an alloy of lead, tin and antimony) from which letters were cast in letterpress printing. The Latin verb fundere, from fons, meaning to pour out, gave the French fondre, to melt or pour out, which led to our typeface word. A cognate is the Sanskrit dhanvati, meaning flows, runs.
Now that you know this, you can be the font of wisdom at your next dinner party, and hope that they serve fondue, a molten meal or dessert, which is from the same root.
The freshwater goddesses, the Camenae, oracular water-nymphs, were honoured today as well. Today saw sacrifices, feasts, games, and the drinking of wine mixed with spring water. Garlands were used to decorate wells and springs today.
Related article: Sacred wells, springs and grottoes in the Scriptorium
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festivals and notable days in the Book of Days
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of many cultures in the Book of Days
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The patient
was required to bring a certificate declaring that he/she had a
genuine affliction and that they had not received the king's
blessing before. A small medallion was given to the patient, and, in
the 16th century, an 
