Saturday, 16 October 2021

It was said that Brie was the only king to Talleyrand always remained loyal

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Talleyrand was a tireless promoter of Brie, which he called the king of cheeses, supposedly at a dinner at the Congress of Vienna in 1815, w...
Friday, 15 October 2021

If the water is allowed to boil away to the point where part of the can is exposed to air, it will explode

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Entirely new dishes were also created. In Argentina, dulce de leche , a thick dark caramel sauce made of sweetened condensed milk, became a ...
Thursday, 14 October 2021

Between the mid-sixteenth and mid-seventeenth centuries, the value of a Dutch cow quadrupled

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Between the mid-sixteenth and mid-seventeenth centuries, the value of a Dutch cow quadrupled. The Dutch were starting to understand what bes...
Wednesday, 13 October 2021

Observed that a state primary is as good as anything provided by the private sector and free into the bargain

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Martin Bryan and the Coggans went to the primary school because that was where children went to school. The Palings went there because Clare...
Tuesday, 12 October 2021

The princes stubbornly continued fighting on two fronts: against mythology on the one hand, and democracy on the other

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A great deal of dotty folklore had accreted around these curious monarchs and their life-style. According to certain legends these people in...
Monday, 11 October 2021

These Methodists preach Salvation through Faith in Christ without Repentance from Sin and I preach Repentance from Sin and then Salvation through Christ

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These Methodists preach Salvation through Faith in Christ without Repentance from Sin and I preach Repentance from Sin and then Salvation th...
Sunday, 10 October 2021

What Forster had against colonialism was its corruption of individual relation, its destruction of personality

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What Forster had against colonialism (since he was a novelist and not a pamphleteer) was its corruption of individual relation, its destruct...