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    17. These insights into blind faith and hellfire originated with Richard Dawkins in The

    Selfish Gene, p. 212.

    18. For a detailed, archaeologically based description of the Anglo-Saxon conquest,

    see Michael Wood, In Search of the Dark Ages, pp. 1-60.

    19. For a chilling first-hand account of how the Marxist meme was pounded into the

    brains of Bulgarians, see Georgi Markov's The Truth That Killed (Ticknor & Fields,

    New York, 1984).  Markov was an award-winning writer in Communist Bulgaria and

    a member of the regime's intellectual elite.  In 1969, disheartened by an appalling

    lack of freedom and by the corruption of party members, Markov defected to

    London and became a broadcaster, beaming his opinions back to the land he had

    left behind.  Bulgarian President Todor Zhivkov was not pleased with Markov's

    open dissent.  On September 7, 1978, the radio commentator was killed on a

    London street with a poisoned pellet shot from a James-Bond-style umbrella.

    20. Paraphrased by David J. Depew and Bruce H. Weber, "Consequences of

    Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics for the Darwinian Tradition," in Bruce H. Weber,

    David J. Depew and James D. Smith, eds.,  Entropy, Information, and Evolution:

    New Perspectives on Physical and Biological Evolution pp. 335-6.

    21. Barbara Tuchman, The Proud Tower, pp. 177-78.

    22. quoted in William L. Shirer, 20th Century Journey; A Memoir of a Life and the

    Times, Volume I, The Start, 1904-1930, p. 68.

    23. from an audio-taped interview with Morgenthau in the series Sum and

    Substance,  by Herman Harvey, Ph.D.,  available from Books On Tape, Newport

    Beach, California.

    24. Aziz Atiya, Crusade, Commerce and Culture, Indiana University Press,

    Bloomington, Indiana, 1962, p. 18.

    25. John Reed, Ten Days That Shook The World, Penguin Books, Harmondsworth,

    Middlesex, England, 1977, pp. 37-41.  John Reed, the highest-paid American

    reporter of his day, was a witness to the critical events of the Russian Revolution.

    His account was highly sympathetic to the Bolshevik  faction.  In fact, it was a

    passionate exposition of the Bolshevik point of view.  The introduction to Reed's

    book would eventually be written by none other than Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. See also

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