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  1. Dec 2023
    1. The NHL was a provincial, parochial six-team affair in 1955, featuring barely over 100 players. Many of them hated each other with the type of passion only love can understand, as paleontologist Steven Jay Gould once observed of 1950s New York baseball.

      This is very interesting because sports are not like this today.

  2. Nov 2023
    1. And is it a large town where you are?" "Ninety thousand," said Lorenzo with a little affectation of modesty

      is this a lot of people for a town during this time period?

    1. The great stress of Easter Day, and the great crowd, ceased after high Mass. There were 4 masses.

      This must have been stressful to organize this back then, and be able to have 4 masses.