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...Theatre.Ichabod Crane, a bumbling eccentric schoolmaster, moves to a superstitious town haunted by a headless horseman. As a Puritan who frequently quotes leaders of the Salem Witch Trials, Ichabod insists he is not superstitious. One night, a dark figure...
...real founders - early-17th-century Puritans and Dutch West India Company officials...when Royalist Virginia stood against Puritan Massachusetts, or when New Netherland...cultures and languages living side by side.Puritan-founded Yankeedom - stretching from...
...to believe as they wish. This country was indeed settled by Puritans, a Christian movement created in the mid-1500s and later...policies of this country, haven't you become exactly what early Puritan settlers of this country fled in the first place? Sheila Box...
...the bear. The historian Macaulay famously said that the Puritans opposed bearbaiting not because it gave pain to the bears but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. The Puritans were right: Some pleasures are contemptible because they...
...the bear. The historian Macaulay famously said that the Puritans opposed bearbaiting not because it gave pain to the bears but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. The Puritans were right: Some pleasures are contemptible because they...
...Saturday after Thanksgiving to do it. The holiday, with its Puritan origins, was an easy mark for a burlesque narrative. The...we're a free culture and a free society, but we're still puritans at heart. "We're making fun of gays, we're making fun...
...Sadly, it seems this issue has brought forth the martyrs "approved" by the state to adopt all un-aborted pregnancies; the Puritans likening comprehensive sex education to an elementary school field trip to the movie set of "Caligula"; and the voyeurs...
...many of his insider trading crimes, the great university seemed to have shed the last vestiges of its narrow clerical and puritan origins. Still, it is refreshing to see these trends newly confirmed in the ravings of right-wing gas bags like Pat Buchanan...
...many of his insider trading crimes, the great university seemed to have shed the last vestiges of its narrow clerical and puritan origins. Still, it is refreshing to see these trends newly confirmed in the ravings of right-wing gas bags like Pat Buchanan...
...entertaining yet more enlightened version of what you're trying to present. I am hardly a "conservative" and by no means a Puritan. But being a 50-something and a writer myself, I think I'm old (or is it just smart?) enough to discern the difference...