Atlantic Trivia for April 29, 2026: Quiz Deliberately
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In 1846, what American writer was arrested near Massachusetts’s Walden Pond and jailed for failure to pay a poll tax?
And by the way, did you know that Saint Peter’s Basilica is not a cathedral? The largest venue for worship in all of Roman Catholicism is merely a church.
To be a cathedral, a church must be the seat of a bishop, and the bishop of Rome—whom we know mostly as “the pope”—technically sits at a cathedral about three miles southeast of the Vatican called the Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran, thereby ranking it above every other Catholic church in the world.
Basilica, meanwhile, can signify pretty much whatever the pope wants it to.
Until tomorrow!
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