CNN: The quake was 'hundreds of times larger' than the 2010 quake that ravaged Haiti. AFP: USGS seismologist Paul Earle: 'We've had aftershocks (in Japan) larger than the Haiti earthquake.'
Fray Luis de León, the great humanist scholar of the Spanish Golden Age, one of the sages of Salamanca University, was condemned by the Inquisition for translating the Song of Solomon and spent four years in prison before being allowed to return to his lectern, where he began his first lecture with the phrase, "Decíamos ayer": "As we were saying yesterday..."