Joseph seemed sitting in a sort of elysium alone, beside a roaring fire; a quart of ale on the table near him, bristling with large pieces of toasted oatcake; and his black, short pipe in his mouth.

Scottish chemist Joseph Black discovered and isolated this potent greenhouse gas in the 1750s.

This paper holds that Catch-22 by Joseph Heller is the fine works and the classics of the 20th century American black humor literature.