The early Underground trains were essentially ordinary steam trains that just happened to be running below the streets in the middle of London.

Then from his lofty stand on that high tree Down he alights among the sportful herd Of those four-footed kinds, himself now one, Now other, as their shape served best his end Nearer to view his prey, and, unespied, To mark what of their state he more might learn, By word or action marked.

The Zapatista revolt is an example of an anti-elite rebellion exacerbated by the growing wealth-poverty divide, and the Gulf War was essentially a resource war, fought over the control of Persion Gulf oil between an autocratic leader with regional ambitions and a powerful coalition of oilimporting states.

In this paper I propose to say something about the attempt of the Baconian theorists to work Ben Jonson over into a witness against William Shakespeare, not because it is necessary to reslay the slain Baconian, but to illustrate that here as elsewhere, and all along the line, there is nothing in it.