Every night in Paris, a dozen dogs sat at table in armchairs, tailored coats, and linen napkins, each attended by its own footman. The master: Francis Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater, Fellow of the Royal Society and prebendary of Durham.
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Angels, he reported, marry in pairs, still have sex, and wear clothing that changes with their mood. Jupiter's inhabitants are wiser than ours. Emanuel Swedenborg, Sweden's chief mining assessor, surveyed heaven the way he'd surveyed iron ore.
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She spoke Yiddish, German, and Hungarian, and could not read a word of English. In 1922, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's wife channeled her in fluent, sentimental English, opening with a large cross. Harry Houdini's mother, wife of a Hungarian rabbi.