I noted in a recent publication that the sale of spectrum, the stuff we use every time we throw the big switch, was the subject of renewed efforts by President Reagan to charge users for access to the radio spectrum […]

We have improvised the most charming party imaginable. The summer has come back by surprise. I own I wonder that June was not tired of us: still here is a day so sunny, that October does not know its own. The Duke of Wharton, Lord Hervey, and some two or three others, have designed a water-party in our honour.

Until the spring of 1560 the French parlementary system had made strenuous but increasingly futile attempts to suppress the Reformation movement by organized repression of public affirmations of heretical belief and behavior […]

Basically Louis's drug dealer and pimp, Richelieu, known for opium recipes to fit all occasions, is also credited with the introduction into France of the cantharides, or Spanish fly.