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In just two quotes: one from Bertrand Russell about Bishop Colenso and the Zulus, and one from Saint Augustine about the vice of curiosity.

Native Australians kept tamed dingoes as companions, guards, and even living blankets; hence the expression "five-dog night."

If William of Malmesbury can be trusted, once, when John was dining with the king, the king asked: "What separates a Scot from a sot?" John answered: "Only the width of the dinner table!"

The book tells about the life of Richard Phillips Feynman, the famous American physicist, well-known popularizer of science, and simply a good person.

The crows that day were flying across the sky not ordinary ones, but red ones. The omen was the very worst, but what of it: it had been a long time since there had been good portents in Mnogoborye.

Usually Pete used his own door, but he categorically refused to go out through it as soon as snow fell.