Puritans were English Protestants who wished to reform and purify the Church of England of what they considered to be unacceptable remains of Roman Catholicism. In the 1620s leaders of the English state and church grew being heartless to Puritan demands. They insisted that the Puritans conform to re...

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My mother's co-workers began to get to know me and quiz me on the different types of airplanes cruising on the bare concrete of the runway. ... It was in one moment where I was captivated by the sheer mechanical genius behind the concept of an airplane, and it was within the next moment where I saw these machines being used as instruments of death and destruction. ...

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