“What really alarms me about President Bush's 'War on Terrorism' is the grammar. How do you wage war on an abstract noun? How is 'Terrorism' going to surrender? It's well known, in philological circles, that it's very hard for abstract nouns to surrender.”

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The saga of Erik the Viking

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Terry Jones' Barbarians

2007

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WHO MURDERED CHAUCER?: A MEDIEVAL MYSTERY

2006

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Terry Jones' Medieval Lives

2004

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Dr. Fegg's encyclopeadia of all world knowledge

1984

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