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In a very general sense the Puritans can be said to have added a few names to the stock which modern parents draw upon, but the author obviously did not mean that.
The Puritans who settled Massachusetts made it a crime to celebrate the holiday (punishment: five shillings).
But gambling's place at the table is threatened by the puritans, who've used their political muscle to help establish a National Gambling Impact Study Commission.
In 1648 a group of English Puritans from Bermuda, led by William Sayle, sailed to Bahamian waters and established the first permanent European settlement on the island they named Eleutheria (now Eleuthera) after the Greek word for freedom.
But even old-fashioned puritans have the right as citizens to protest the behavior of their president.