The May Laws (or Falk Laws after education minister Adalbert Falk) of 1873 were legislative bills enacted in the German Kingdom of Prussia during the Kulturkampf conflict with the Catholic Church.
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“Americans are rather like bad Bulgarian wine: they don’t travel well.”
—Bernard Falk (1943–1990)
“Surely the fates are forever kind, though Nature’s laws are more immutable than any despot’s, yet to man’s daily life they rarely seem rigid, but permit him to relax with license in summer weather. He is not harshly reminded of the things he may not do.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)