Word: catherinee
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How did we reach this pinnacle? Ice cream was perfected in the U.S., as all honest chauvinists know, but it was not invented here. Nero liked to eat flavored ice, according to Paul Dickson's scholarly and amusing The Great American Ice Cream Book, and in the 13th century...
> Major Michael Parker, 33, an antiques dealer and reserve officer, who says lightly: "I like burning things. I am a pyromaniac." Parker is the man directly in charge of what he says will be "the largest firework display in 250 years," a figure that roughly but deliberately recalls the pyrotechnic...
The strictness bemuses those who recall that the Church of England was created because Henry VIII, against papal orders, wanted to shed Catherine of Aragon, his first wife, and marry Anne Boleyn. As it happened, the much married monarch did not actually divorce Catherine, but engineered an annulment. Nor did...
*Anne Boleyn was beheaded; Jane Seymour died after childbirth; the Anne of Cleves marriage was annulled; Catherine Howard was beheaded; and Catherine Parr outlived Henry.
Forget Mr. Blackwell's "worst dressed" lists. Professors of history and politics at the Catholic University of America in Washington have taken a vote and come up with the "ten most villainous people in history," a collection of rotters guilty of sins even more grievous than wearing brown shoes...