1 March 1625 in the Dutch reckoning was, in the English reckoning of the time, 19 February 1624.

[…] Ms. [LaWanda] Page revealed to the [white] girl that she is 55 years old. Then, before the girl could stammer her disbelief, Ms. Page quipped, Well, you know, Black don't crack!

Whales and sturgeons are royal fish.

Chad Bauman has offered a great model for the “make your own religion” exercise, and I will engage in repeated acts of “kleptomnesia” in appropriating his ideas.