Places
- Bantam (city), a city and former sultanate on Java island, in Indonesia
- Sultanate of Banten, former sultanate centered on the above city
- Banten, current province of Indonesia on territory of the former sultanate
- Bantam, Cocos (Keeling) Islands
- Bantam, Connecticut, United States
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“The places which I have described may seem strange and remote to my townsmen ... our account may have made no impression on your minds. But what is our account? In it there is no roar, no beach-birds, no tow-cloth.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)
“There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do itbenevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.”
—Viola Spolin (b. 1911)