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Now the family dining room, this was originally a mediaeval chapel. The licentious Eleventh Duke, Charles Howard, had it converted the better to engage in his debaucheries.
He may also have intended to reinforce his abandonment (for political reasons) of the Catholic religion of his ancestors. Because he continued to promote the welfare of Catholics, strongly supporting Emancipation, his allegiance to the Church of England may well have been suspect; turning the chapel into a dining room would have been an outward confirmation of his apostasy.
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Insofar as Santa Claus – the jolly old man, not St. Nicholas – can be said to have any existence, it is as he is portrayed in fiction. And the character built up by artists and authors over the past 200 years or so is undeniably that of a white man;
if, as Harris suggests, a neutral penguin is substituted, the character of Santa Claus would have to be thrown out the window. While a new penguin Santa could very well grow popular in time, replacing the current Santa would be losing a significant part of our cultural heritage.
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St. Nicholas of Myra was a 4th-century bishop known for his charity ad his faithfulness to the Church.
One legend about him states that he discreetly sent dowries to the daughters of a needy family by tossing bags of gold down the chimney, thus beginning the Santa Claus legend.
He was not, however, the universally nice man that Santa is; another legend describes him pimp-slapping the heresiarch Arius
for insisting on his unorthodox beliefs
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The theories of the current Deconstructionsists, who follow in the footsteps of Friedrich Nietzsche, bear out this view.
A famous early proponent of the theory of reality created by the mind was the Irish Anglican bishop George Berkeley;
Samuel Johnson once argued against him by kicking a large stone whilst saying “I refute it thus!”
“Mystes” presumably means “metaphysicians,” whose work does indeed have something mystical about it.
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“Gallipots” is an archaic term for “pharmacists”;
Drotte is suggesting that the apprentices are gathering healing herbs which will be used to make medicines, and are thus performing a necessary and commendable task (rather than just gettting into mischief)
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"Fresh as a flower, Madame. Hardly a breath of stink on her, and nothing to worry about." Gene Wolfe – The Shadow of the Torturer (Chapter One)
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The woman’s corpse hasn’t started to decay yet.
“Flower” could be a reference to the way her body was planted in the ground to be plucked by these grave-robbers.
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