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nunnery the convent or religious house of a community of nuns How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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When Bill O'Reilly's forebears were streaming over from Ireland, groups with names like "Supreme Order of the Star-Spangled Banner" railed against these redheaded runts, many of them conceived in the "legalized Sodoms" and "Popish brothels" described by the reformed priest William Hogan in his nativist tract Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries. For the last forty years, ever since we've been in India, nunneries have developed better. The Vikings tore through the northernmost three kingdoms, conquering, raping, looting and pillaging, saving particular savagery for monasteries and nunneries, until they reached Wessex, the wealthiest, southernmost kingdom, governed by a young king, Alfred. |
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