He cuts a five-foot stave from a poplar tree, peels off the bark, and spends an afternoon with a heated screwdriver burning into the white woodflesh the entire Morse and semaphore codes.

Everyone is rightly planning for the worst-case scenario. Across Europe, that worst-case scenario is already playing out.

through my prouinces you muſt expect Letters of conduct from my mightineſſe, If you intend to keep your treaſure ſafe.

Salesman: Uh, hey, how about a Skinny Scan 27,000 with a Computer Virus Eradicator as a throw-in?