Excerpt from Biblical Things Not Generally Known: A Collection of Facts, Notes, and Information Concerning Much That Is Rare, Quaint, Curious, Obscure, and Little Known in Relation to Biblical Subjects
Items of information which are known by some readers will yet be quite fresh to others; and in the case of familiar topics, new light has usually been thrown on facts that may be well known. In a few cases the same subjects have been dealt with more than once, but in these cases some additional information of importance is given in the second paragraph. Every effort has been made to secure accuracy; and in dealing with places of which the identity is disputed the name of the person whose judgment is expressed in the paragraph is usually gwen.
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Robert Tuck was born in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia and before following his family into the Anglican priesthood he reported for the "Halifax Chronicle" and taught at King's School. He settled in Charlottetown in 1992 where he occupies a canon's stall at St. Peter's Cathedral. Since then, he has curated exhibitions at the Confederation Centre of the Arts on a variety of Island topics, including "Gothic Dreams: The Life and Times of William Critchlow, 1845-1913".
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