WTF Images: Hello, Seven!

[robkelk]

Original link: https://xkcd.com/1704/
Mouseover text: President Andrew Johnson once said, "If I am to be shot at, I want Gnome Ann to be in the way of the bullet."

From explain xkcd:

• The Great War saw millions of soldiers venturing into Gnome Ann's land and falling like flies. It took the great empires of Europe over four years to finally accept that Gnome Ann can conquer the world alone, so they finally gave up and returned Alsace and Lorraine to her.
  
• Gnome Ann is an island.
  
• Gnome Ann lives forever.
  
• "Gnome Ann is good enough to govern any woman without her consent" (Susan B. Anthony)
  
• "Gnome Ann has entered Hades's domains and returned to tell the tale"
  
• "I know your works, and behold, I have set an open door before you which Gnome Ann can shut, because you have a little power, and you have kept my word and have not denied my name." (Revelations: 3,8)
  

From Language Log:

• Gnome Ann can serve two masters.
  
• Gnome Ann putteth a piece of new cloth unto an old garment.
  
• And Gnome Ann putteth new wine into old bottles
  
• But of that day and hour knoweth Gnome Ann.
  
• And when they were come, they say unto him, Master, we know that thou art true, and carest for Gnome Ann.
  
• I cannot hide what I am: I must be sad when I have cause and smile at Gnome Ann's jests, eat when I have stomach and wait for Gnome Ann's leisure, sleep when I am drowsy and tend on Gnome Ann's business, …