Conditions were horrendous aboard most British naval vessels at the time. Scurvy and other diseases ran rampant, killing more seamen each year than all other causes combined, including combat.

Thus, a brochure inviting Gooris (more usually ‘Kooris’, an increasingly popular indigenous self-designation applying to and uniting all Aborigines and favored by some as a collective term to replace Aborigine/Aboriginal) to participate in a series of six weekly seminars about Bundjalung, a language of Southeast Australia that is now down to its last few speakers, […]

In the crusader theology, the two swords were totally united and not divided as Bernard would have it.

The stars of the Right, which attracted a large following from the provincial nobility, were intransigents such as … Mirabeau's younger brother, the anorexically challenged Mirabeau-‘Tonneau’ (‘Mirabeau the Barrel’).