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It’s the negative image of an important intellectual movement of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the Enlightenment, whose principles formed, among other things, the basis for American democracy.

In the seventeenth century, Thomas Hobbes pegged laughter as the companion of scorn.

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, these tunnels were used to store human remains from overcrowded cemeteries.

When the United States declared war, it had a large and modern navy but a small, poorly equipped army, only the seventeenth largest in the world.

If you have friends who appreciate their Irish heritage, you might have a party to attend, but otherwise, March seventeenth is nothing more than a good day to believe in magical happenings and happy accidents.