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156. When granted anything they wished, the heroes of these tales chose such items as "a
bun, a sausage, and as much wine as he can drink," "white bread and chicken," or "crude
wine and a bowl of potatoes in milk."  Robert Darnton, The Great Cat Massacre and
Other Episodes in French Cultural History, Vintage Books, New York, 1985, pp. 22,
24-34.
157. Daniel Boorstin, The Discoverers, pp. 236-244.
158. On March 12, 1519, Cortes landed at Tabasco and overwhelmed an Aztec army that
outnumbered his tiny force 300 to one.  (Hammond Innes, The Conquistadors, Alfred A.
Knopf, New York, 1969, pp. 42-52.)
159. G.M. Trevelyan, A Shortened History of England, p. 206.
160. See Steven Levy, Artificial Life: a report from the frontier where computers meet
biology, New York, Vintage Books, 1993, 35-42.
161. For the feasibility of space colonies, see Gerard K. O'Neill, 2081: A Hopeful View of
the Human Future, A Touchstone Book, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1981, pp. 61-75.
When he wrote this book, O'Neill was president of the Space Studies Institute.
162.  Paul G. Hattersley, M.D., "Blood," Academic American Encyclopedia, Vol. 3, Grolier
Incorporated, Danbury, Connecticut, 1985, p. 335.
163.  Quoted in Elias Canetti, Crowds and Power, pp. 230-231.
164. Caesar bragged of wanting "to punish" the Eburones' "heinous crime with total
annihilation." (Caesar, The Conquest of Gaul, p. 149.)  And when his troops overwhelmed
the leading Gallic city of Avaricum--a town Caesar himself called "almost the finest in
Gaul"--his troops killed nearly forty thousand inhabitants, including all the women, children
and elderly.  (Caesar, The Conquest of Gaul, p. 169.)
165.  Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: the history of the Empire
from A.D. 180 to A.D. 395, first volume of the unabridged edition, Modern Library, New
York (no publication date available), pp. 25-26.
166.  James Burke, Connections, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1978, p. 84.
167.  James Burke, Connections, p. 82.
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