A number of wandering and flockless preachers hawked challenges from town to town.

In one experiment, the researchers had people rate the characteristics of people with various given names or nicknames. […] A person with a nickname like Liz, for example, would probably be rated as friendlier and more popular than a person with the given name Elizabeth, but Elizabeth would probably be rated more intelligent and trustworthy.

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Again, this kind of suffering to the devout Fathers did seem many ways significant, or full of instructive and admonitive emblems; […]