A biography of Pop Buell, a legendary American known as a helper of Laotian hill tribes, describes how in 1960 he had “watched from the side of the [Phong Savan] airstrip as a modern twin-engined plane took on a huge load of opium. Beneath the wing, talking heatedly with the plane’s Corsican pilot was a slender woman, . . . [the] grande madame of opium from Saigon.”

According to a takkanah (enactment) of the chief rabbinate of Palestine in 1943, in Israel daughters inherit on an equal footing with sons.

The editors of the Unitarian New Version of the New Testament, who very modestly wish to shovel all these spurcities and salacities out of the sacred text, have the impudence to tell us, in a note, that they were interpolated to lessen the odium attached to Christianity […]

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