Let us break bread together on our knees

Let us break bread together on our knees,
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tidbits cross time

In China, it was said that an instrument strung with lion sinews would, by being played, cause all the other strings in the orchestra's instruments to break.

Early modern industrialization used up so much wood in England as to produce a shortage. The first solution was for Parliament to forbid farmers from using any woodland not within two furlongs of their home.
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