Trivia For You Thursday October 30, 2008 |
Medical treatment, during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, was aimed at ridding the sick of "vile humours" by vomiting, purging, and bleeding. The treatment was often the immediate cause of death. Some prescriptions called for "letting" more blood than is now known to exist in the whole body. |
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Without any greenhouse effect, Earth would be cold and lifeless with an average temperature of 0.4 degrees Fahrenheit. |
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Moses Malone became the first player to go from high school straight into pro basketball in 1974. The move made him the highest salaried teenage athlete in the United States at that time. Malone was signed by the Utah Stars of the American Basketball Association. |
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By the end of the Civil War, between one-third and one-half of all U.S. paper currency in circulation was counterfeit. This served as the catalyst behind the creation of the U.S. Secret Service. On July 5, 1865, the Secret Service was created under the U.S. Treasury Department. In less than a decade, counterfeiting was sharply reduced. |
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The magnificent 1,000-foot cliffs of Canyon de Chelly (pronounced de shay) National Monument in northeastern Arizona is a magnificent place. Its relative lack of fame owes much to the continuing presence of the Navajo, for whom the canyon retains enormous symbolic significance, although they did not themselves build its cliff dwellings. Most visitors are restricted to peering into the canyon from above, from overlooks along the two rim drives. There's no road in, and, apart from one short trail, tourists can only enter the canyons with a Navajo guide. |
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Tomorrow is the spookiest day of the year -- make sure it's fun, but safe! Follow these tips for safety for Halloween props and decorations to make sure you and your kids enjoy the holiday safely. For more parenting tips, as well as reader-submitted baby photos, advice from famous parenting columnists, and more, subscribe to the free ArcaMax Parents ezine. Subscribe to ArcaMax Parenting instantly. Find out more before subscribing. -- From the ArcaMax editors |
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