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It is with some amusement that I realise I wrote things like "LOL!" and "dweebs!" in the margins of my readings where funny but utterly useless facts caught my attention. For example, in 1584 a guy called "William the Silent, Prince of Orange" was assassinated (Dreamcatcher suggests that if he were Jewish he'd be The Prince of Orange Jews! Wonder if they had to use a silencer when they shot him). Another guy, an English preacher by the name of William Partridge, declared in 1697 that the world would come to an end imminently, and in 1699 he issued another statement in which he sadly noted that the world had in fact come to an end but that no one had taken notice. *ROTFL!*
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