Confederate prison

Prisoners arriving in October 1864 had no living quarters. They built crude huts with scraps of pine left over from construction of the stockade. Records show that Camp Lawton held 10,229 Union troops by early November. Despite the camp's brief existence, at least 685 prisoners died there.

Road to hell

“The road to Hell is paved with the bones of priests and monks, and the skulls of bishops are the lamp posts that light the path.” -John Chrysostom,

Greens

Green is the first socio-political movement in which every single leader and spokesperson is filthy rich

Amazons

There they formed an independent kingdom under the government of a queen named Hippolyta or Hippolyte ("loose, unbridled mare").

Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius is the most intolerable of human types. He is an unselfish egoist. An unselfish egoist is a man who has pride without the excuse of passion.

Yogi

Yogi Berra once observed, “If the fans don’t come out to the ball park, you can’t stop them.”

Thomas Peebles

Harvard Medical School pointed to his D in biology and lack of pre-med courses and summarily turned him down.
He went on to discover the measles vaccine.

Don Juan introd on Coleridge

Explaining metaphysics to the nation[1] --
I wish he would explain his Explanation.

Wordsworth by Byron

partly his having lent his more downright and unmeasured prose to the aid of a political party, with acknowledges its real weakness, though fenced with the whole armour of artificial Power, and defended by all the ingenuity of purchased Talent, in liberally rewarding with praise and pay even the meanest of its advocates

Mountebanks

and what mountebank will not find proselytes? (from Count Cagliostro to Madame Krudener) [Byron. pref to Don Juan]

Universities

What we have at the moment is merely a government funded theme park in many cases.

Unemployment

She contacted a local shelter but learned there was a waiting list. Welfare is not an option, because she does not have young children. She says none of her three adult sons are in a position to help her.

Another U.S. bishop

“Most Reverend Daniel Jenky, C.S.C., Bishop of the Diocese of Peoria, is immensely grateful that the University of Illinois was willing to listen to our concerns and has decided to act in what he believes in a very appropriate manner in allowing Dr. Kenneth Howell to return to the classroom,” she added.
"She" is the Chancellor of the Diocese. Another example of bishops ceding authority.