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Baptist Health said the state of Florida asked it to assist in the delivery of COVID vaccines to Ocean Reef Club, the wealthy Key Largo community at the center of a dispute over access to vaccines. ....
Baptist Health said the state of Florida asked it to assist in the delivery of COVID vaccines to Ocean Reef Club, the wealthy Key Largo community at the center of a dispute over access to vaccines. ....
Last modified on Sun 14 Feb 2021 07.05 EST Anne Turner, narrator and heroine of Lucy Jagoâs A Net for Small Fishes, feels like she steps straight from the stage of a Jacobean masque. To an extent, she does. Turner, the widow of a London doctor, was a historical figure hanged at Tyburn for her part in the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury. She became an instant celebrity, vilified by contemporary playwrights. Turner was the subject of the anonymous play The Widow, The World Tossed at Tennis. This is Jagoâs first foray into adult fiction â having made her name with an award-winning biography of Norwegian scientist Kristian Birkeland ( ....
Top 10 Things You Probably Never Knew About Witches As the phrase ‘witch hunt’ still shows, the Witch Craze of the early modern period is now an infamous byword for superstition, hysteria and irrational cruelty. Yet witch beliefs and persecutions remain surprisingly misunderstood. When people talk about ‘witch burning Puritans’ for example, they wrongly assume that Puritans killed more witches than did High Anglicans or Catholics, whilst witches were almost never burned in England or America. The same goes for ‘medieval superstition’. The Middle Ages had far fewer witch accusations or deaths than the time of Shakespeare or Charles II, or indeed the Ancient Romans. Finally, although the British Witchcraft Act of 1736 outlawed official witch persecution, popular beliefs and popular violence ran on – and on, and on… Well into the twentieth century alleged witches were still in danger of their lives in Britain, Europe and North America. ....