[lit-ideas] Re: Nuclear weapons in the ME (was: Jewish communities in the ME)
- From: Scribe1865@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 14:27:40 EDT
Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I seem to remember that the grandfather of Nathaniel
> Hawthorne sentenced a Quaker woman to be whipped in
> the streets of Boston, which is mentioned in one of
> his stories. What could this tell us about the
> American society ?
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This could tell us the incident happened hundreds of years ago, and that US
society, unlike theocratic societies, changes over time.
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