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Plague, however, remained the darkest scourge. Just under three months after William’s birth, the burials section of the parish register of Holy Trinity Church in Stratford bears the ominous words Hic incepit pestis, ‘Here begins plague’, beside the name of a boy named Oliver Gunne. The outbreak of 1564 was a vicious one. At least two hundred people died in Stratford, about ten times the normal rate.

Shakespeare

Bill Bryson

Instead, Watson, in his post-academic writings (e.g., Watson 1924), asserted that uncontrolled and unintentional parental (especially maternal) behaviors were the sole influences on the character development of children. Watson exhorted parents (again, especially mothers) to program their interactions with their children in such a way as to produce desirable character development, where “desir- able,” broadly construed, meant “socially useful.”

Encyclopedia of the History of Psychological Theories

Robert W. Rieber

Allerdings ist das Papier nicht nur brisant, seine erste Fassung ist in einigen Punkten auch grob falsch. Die aktualisierte Version beginnt nun mit einer längeren Anmerkung zu den Nachbesserungen. Die Gruppe, die anderen Personen Zahlenmanipulationen unterstellt, hat es selbst mit den Zahlen nicht so genau genommen. Sie schreibt dazu lapidar: »Vielen Dank! – Für weitere Anregungen sind wir sehr dankbar.«

#DiviGate in Der Corona-Pandemie: Die Manipulation, Die Keine War - DER SPIEGEL

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