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...memorable comment on the Cardinal's own death came from an even higher dignitary and was even more cryptic. "When the news of [Richelieu's] passing was brought to Urban VIII, the old Pope sat for a moment in pensive silence. 'Well,' he said at last, 'if there is a God, Cardinal Richelieu will have much to answer for. If not, he has done very well...
...Trinity House is a Mariner's organization chartered by King Henry VIII in 1514 as a "Guild, Fraternity or Brotherhood of the Most Glorious and Undividable Trinity of St. Clement." Duties: to erect and manage coast lighthouses and buoys, operate the pilot service in harbors. In 1604 members were divided into Elder and Younger Brethren. There are 13 Elder Brethren, two from the Navy, eleven from the Merchant Marine; and 200 Younger Brethren, elected by the Elders. Trinity House is now a corporation. Churchill is an Elder Brother...
...VIII. The U.S. has made a beginning at waging war politically and economically, but its plans are not comprehensive and its objectives are vague...
...shushed by the British and sent home to Britain because he said unkind things about Isolationist Senator Wheeler), "furnish both sides of the Atlantic with Masonic passwords: quotations that will always be recognized by the elect." Among the great quotations the elect may recognize: II Corinthians iii, 17; John viii, 32; Psalm 140; the Golden Rule; Patrick Henry on liberty; the Declaration of Independence; Rule, Britannia; Byron's Sonnet on Chilian; Shelley's Masque of Anarchy; Thoreau's On the Duty of Civil Disobedience; The Battle Hymn of the Republic...
Most people still think of Catherine of Aragon, the first wife of Henry VIII, as a woman who stood in shadow, queenly but helpless, brave but passive, while Henry and his gaudy parade passed her by. Actually this proud, learned and winsome daughter of Spain's Ferdinand and Isabe11a was neither helpless nor passive...