Most jugglers are male, no? Now anyway. Tomb art suggests many, if not most, jugglers in ancient Egypt were female.

These were two of history’s most spectacular military invasions by sea: In 1066, William the Conqueror took 8,000 fighters and 2,000 horses across the English Channel on 450 ships. In 1944, Gen. Dwight Eisenhower took 176,000 troops across the channel on 4,000 vessels, backed by 600 warships and 9,500 airplanes. I cited the foregoing to a conservative friend who said, “William had more horses.”

The Arabic for “forbidden” is “Harem.”