1945 - World War II: Adolf Hitler issues his "Nero Decree" ordering all industries, military installations, shops, transportation facilities and communications facilities in Germany be destroyed.
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so much as understand the names of the chief instruments of husbandry,
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physic a horse or a dog. And, since I must publish my whole shame, 'tis
leaven to make bread, or to what end it was to keep wine in the vat.
him they saw ingeniously bavin up a burthen of brushwood. In earnest,
whole provision and necessaries of a kitchen, I should starve. By these
whatever I deliver myself to be, provided it be such as I really am/am.html">am/am.html">am,
such mean and frivolous things as these: the meanness of the subject
my progress: so it is, that without anybody's needing to tell me, I
folly of my design: 'tis enough that my judgment does not contradict
Quantum noluerit ferre rogatus Atlas;
Non potes in nugas dicere plura mess,
Rodere? carne opus est, si satur esse velis.
Virus habe; nos haec novimus esse nihil."
["Let your nose.html">nose.html">nose be as keen as it will, be all nose, and even a nose
excel Latinus in scoffing; against my trifles you could say no more
tooth? You must have flesh, if you want to be full; lose not your
know already that these things are worthless."--Mart., xiii. 2.]
I am not obliged not to utter absurdities, provided I am not deceived in
me, that I seldom do it otherwise, and rarely trip by chance. 'Tis no
since I cannot ordinarily help supplying it with those that are vicious.
I was present one day at Barleduc, when King Francis II., for a memorial
himself: why is it not in like manner lawful for every one to draw
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