An illustrated rendering of the ancient city of Cahokia, whose ruins--or mounds--are found in present-day Illinois, across the river from St. Louis. David Reynolds, writing in America, Empire of Liberty: "Archeologists now believe that Cahokia was virtually an Indian metropolis covering nearly six square miles, which flourished in the late eleventh century when the Normans were conquering England. Row houses and courtyard mansions lined streets that led to large public plazas. The huge platform mound were capped by temples, tombs, or palaces--the top of the largest mound is the size of a soccer field--and Cahokia did not stand alone because satellite mounds spread out across the fertile floodplain of the Mississippi. In fact, Cahokia is the biggest prehistoric earthwork still surviving anywhere in the Americas."

Richard III, Shakespeare: "Thus I clothe my own naked villainy with odd old ends stolen out of holy writ and seem a saint...Then I sigh, and with a piece of Scripture tell them that God bids us to do evil for good."