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...Cort H. Ellis, 77, who served as a guard in Quincy House for over three years, officially retired this weekend...
...know Cort was trying to keep it quiet, but I thought it would be nice to let him know how much we all appreciate him,” said Dionne, who learned the news while working in the superintendent’s office...
...Once over break I had left my passport at school and needed it to travel, and Cort went to my room, found it and mailed it out to me. It was the sweetest thing,” said Betsy A. Sykes...
Once firearms arrived, "Europe, far more easily than other cultures, was able to convert ranks of spearmen" into deadly infantrymen. They "fired as they had stabbed - in unison, on command, shoulder to shoulder and in rank." From this flowed astonishing Western military feats: Hernán Cortés' 1,600 men slaughtering more than 1 million Aztecs (1519-21); a Christian fleet's crushing of a larger Ottoman Muslim armada at Lepanto (1571) and the creation of an empire on four continents by a British army that in 1879 had only...
...Cort is really awesome," agrees Damian Wisniewski '01, a resident of Quincy House...