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Fake Murder? Shakespeare is first listed as an author in 1593, when the poem Venus and Adonis ("The first heir of my invention,") was registered at the Stationers Company. Plays bearing his name began to appear some years later. In 1598, a Rutlandshire clergyman-schoolteacher, Francis Meres, "specifically names twelve of his plays," compares them to the works of Horace, Homer, Sophocles...
...British subject 21 or over- unless, among other things, he or she is a lunatic, felon, traitor, clergyman, civil servant, member of the House of Lords or one of the Royal Family-may stand for election to the House of Commons. A candidate need not live in the constituency he represents (for 14 years Winston Churchill represented a constituency in Scotland), need not know much about its people or problems, theoretically need not even appear there except for the formalities of campaign time. He does need a $420 deposit, ten supporters to sign a petition, and the patience...
Unenthusiastic about becoming a clergyman (which his father proposed), too "pathologically sensitive" to become a doctor, Darwin devoted his mammoth perseverance to becoming Darwin, i.e., an authority on matter rather than mind. For eight years he studied barnacles: his "patient dissection of thousands of smelly little sea animals" so impressed his children that they assumed that everyone in the world was similarly occupied. "Then where does he do his barnacles?" asked a little Darwin about a neighbor...
...biography the New York police found it hard to separate fact from fabrication. He was born in St. Petersburg where his father, he said, was financial adviser to the monk Rasputin-a background hardly calculated to recommend Serge to the business world; it was as if a clergyman told his colleagues that his father used to be chaplain to King Kong...
...Presbyterian minister, James Moffatt Douglas, who was elected as an M.P. in 1896, was elevated to the Senate in 1906, the only clergyman ever to hold a Senatorship...