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François 1er 58e roi de France, monté sur le Trône en 1515, mort en 1547.
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Galerie des rois & reines de France
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“Marijuana”: A 1968 U.S. government film
Starring a spaced-out Sonny Bono
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Drug war failed, legalize marijuana
Russian Times: “A report by the Global Commission on Drug Policy concluded the global war on drugs has been an abysmal failure and that governments should consider legalizing marijuana and other controlled substances.
The commission, made up of experts, former heads of state, a former UN secretary-general, and business moguls, found that the drug war has done more harm than good.”
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Website where you can buy “any drug imaginable”
Wired.com: “Silk Road, a digital black market that sits just below most internet users’ purview, does resemble something from a cyberpunk novel. Through a combination of anonymity technology and a sophisticated user-feedback system, Silk Road makes buying and selling illegal drugs as easy as buying used electronics — and seemingly as safe.”
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The Pantropheon
Google Books: The Pantropheon: or, History of food and its preparation, by Alexis Soyer, 1853. Chapter 6, Grains: Seeds, p. 48: “Shall we mention Hempseed, the Cannabis of the ancients, which was served fried for dessert? [18] That hemp should be spun and made onto ropes, well and good; but to regale one’s-self with it after dinner, — when the stomach is overloaded with food, and hardly moved from its lethargic quietude by the appearance of the most provoking viands that art can invent — what depravity! What strange perversion of the most simple elements of gastronomy!” [Note 18: Bruyerin, Jean-Baptiste, De re cibaria (1560), vii. 13.]
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Sturtevant’s Notes on Edible Plants
Archive.org: “Hempseed was served fried for dessert by the ancients. In Russia, Poland and neighboring countries, the peasants are extremely fond of parched hempseed and it is eaten even by the nobility.” Hedrick, U.P. editor. 1919. Sturtevant’s Notes on Edible Plants. Report of the New York Agricultural Experiment Station for the Year 1919 II. Albany, J.B Lyon Company, State Printers.
Reference for “fried for dessert by the ancients” is to Alexis Soyer, The Pantropheon or History of Food From Earliest Ages of the World (London, 1853), p. 48.
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Rabelais: the ribald scholar
Drawing by an unknown 16th-century artist, from “Rabelais: the ribald scholar,” by Alain Frontier (UNESCO Courier, ISSN 00415278, vol. 47 no.11, page 44, Nov 1994).
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salamander
Online Etymology Dictionary: “salamander: mid-14c., ‘a legendary lizard-like creature that can live in fire,’ from O.Fr. salamandre (12c.), from L. salamandra, from Gk. salamandra, probably of eastern origin. The application to an actual amphibian is first recorded 1610s. Aristotle, and especially Pliny, are responsible for the fiction of an animal that thrives in and extinguishes fires. The amphibian lives in damp logs and secretes a milky substance when threatened, but there is no obvious natural explanation its connection with the myth.”
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