Tha'alibi was one of the leading literateurs of the 4th/10th and early 5th/11th centuries who was endowed with a comprehensive knowledge of Arabic prose and poetry.

Husbands, it seems to me, are caught between the Rock of Feminism and the Hard Place of their own marriages […]

What are these diseases which are spread nosewise and throat-wise? Here they are, chiefly: tuberculosis, diphtheria, measles, scarlet fever, whooping cough, pneumonia, cerebral fever, influenza and infectious colds […]

In the UK, following World War II, petrol was not derationed until 1950.