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At the very bottom she added, “P.S. Who is right now, you or I?” • On July 4, 1880, in Charleston, Arizona, George Warren challenged George Atkins to a race, placing a bet on the outcome. The bet was that Warren could outrun Atkins in a 100-yard race, with Warren on foot and Atkins on horseback. If he won, he’d take Atkins’ horse. If he lost, Atkins would take his 1/9th share in the Copper Queen mine in Bisbee, Arizona. Warren was figuring he could make a tighter turn around the pole that marked the turn-around spot half way through the race course. He was wrong. Atkins won the race. The share of the mine eventually turned out to be worth some $20 million. Warren lived the rest of his life in poverty and borderline insanity.

• A Native American once bet that he could run to a river and back before a pot of water set on the fire came to a boil. The bet was on, and he won. The tribe commemorated the incident by naming the valley “Ke-kala-kala-mazoo” which basically means “man runs to river before pot boils.” Settlers later shortened to it Kalamazoo, a town in Michigan.

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Acupuncture has a few scientific studies behind it, and while the jury is still out on how well it can reduce dogs’ anxiety, studies have found that acupuncture can help relieve pain. A 2006 study published by the Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine found “encouraging data” worth pursuing in future studies, saying there was no reason to recommend or reject acupuncture as an effective treatment for animals.

Just as with humans, massage can help relax muscles and relieve the chronic pain of arthritis, and chiropractic also has been shown to be helpful. A 2016 study by the Canadian Veterinary Medical Association combined acupuncture with massage, for example, and noted that after treatment, “significant improvement was seen in the dogs’ ability to walk, trot, jump and rise from a lying position.”

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(cont’d) he could make any address in the city the most famous house in town. The bet was on, and a particularly nondescript home was chosen on Berners Street in London.

• After finding that the home was occupied by an elderly widow named Mrs. Tottingham, Hook set about his mischief which entailed sending out over a thousand letters with Mrs. Tottingham’s forged signature and address at the bottom of each.

• On a certain day the following week, Hook hid himself across the street and watched the THE “X” FACTOR (continued): fun. First a dozen different chimney sweeps • Do you suffer from xeroderma? If you have appeared at her door,ofeach one insisting abnormal dryness the skin, this termthat applies you! shetohad written to them and requested them to • From the 16th to the 19th centuries, pirates on come clean her chimney on this date. While she the Mediterranean sailed a small threewas trying to convinceSea them that she had not masted vessel with square and triangular sails ordered a single chimney muchthan less their a that enabled them to sweep, sail faster dozen of them,victims. several Depending different coal prospective on merchants the size of the ship, known as a xebec, between 16 and 40 appeared, each bearing a ton of coal “just as she guns might be mounted on the vessel. had ordered.”

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• Then truckloads of furniture began To the ancient Greeks, it was the arriving, concept of along with beer merchants, an organ sales-shown hospitality, generosity, and courtesy to those from wig home.

To the botanist, it’s man, candyfar makers, makers, hairdressers, the effect of pollen on a seed. And to those in butchers, machinists, jewelers, grocers, furriers, Ohio, it’s the county seat of Greene County, seamstresses, repairmen, doctors, opticians, and a community about 21 miles (34 km) from Dayton. dentists.

Xystus is an architectural referring •• Also arriving were the Duke term, of York, the to a long, covered portico, or main entrance, Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Chief Jus-of ancient Greek gymnasiums. Here, athletes tice, the Governor the Bank of England, and would exercise ofduring inclement weather. theMayor Romans, the xystus theTo Lord of London.

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• Eben swore it healed his arm and reduced his pain. He had Radithor shipped by the caseload to his house. He convinced his friends it was a miracle cure. But by 1930, Eben, now age 50, started getting sick. By this time he had ingested around 1,400 bottles of Radithor over the course of three years. He got headaches and lost weight. His teeth fell out. Abscesses formed in his brain, along with holes in his skull. When he went for a professional opinion, he was diagnosed with radiation poisoning. He stopped drinking Radithor. By now his bones were crumbling and his jaw had to be amputated.

He died in 1932 at the age of 52. The article in the “Wall Street Journal” noted, “The radium water worked fine until his jaw came off.”

• When publicity spread about Eben’s death by radium water, William Bailey closed the factory. By the time a cease-and-desist order was delivered, he was long gone. Bailey was never charged with any wrongdoing, and soon opened a new shop in New York manufacturing radioactive belt buckles, radioactive paperweights, and other products. Eventually, the federal government closed that company down.

• Eben Byers is buried in Allegheny Cemetery in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in a lead-lined coffin. His remains are highly radioactive.

• Radithor did not cause a widespread epidemic of radiation poisoning because it was costly.

At $15 per dose, it was out of the reach of most Americans. Eben was wealthy and could afford as many doses as he wanted to take.

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