The local national state, invested with the attributes of sovereignty - is an abomination of desolation standing in the place where it ought not. It has stood in that place now - demanding and receiving human sacrifices from its poor deluded votaries - for four or five centuries.
Arnold J. ToynbeeRelated topics
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Standing at my door, I heard the discharge of a gun, and in four or five seconds of time, after the discharge, the small shot came rattling about me, one or two of which struck the house; which plainly demonstrates that the velocity of sound is greater than that of a cannon bullet.
Benjamin Banneker
