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Why did Western Europeans come to dominate the world? Historian Paul M. Kennedy, in The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers (1987), says western Europe … quotes/130

Oh my gosh, you know what it is here in New York City. This week is No-Sales Tax Week.' It's tax-free week. What it is: merchants are not charging sales … quotes/114

In the street in Mark land do observe (it being St. Davids' day) the picture of a man dressed like a Welchman, hanging by the neck upon one of the poles … pepys/262

Late at the office; and then home and there find Mr. Batelier and his sister Mary ... he told me of ... making a bargain with another man at a taverne … pepys/222

Among other things they [the old men of Trinity house] observed that there are but two seamen in the Parliament house, _viz._, Sir W. Batten and Sir W. … pepys/110