ARTICLES BY DAVID WALLECHINSKY
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GETTING OUT OF BED ON THE "RIGHT" SIDE
To arise from the left side of the bed will put you in a sour mood and will subject your entire day to misfortune. Get up from the right side and step first on your right foot...
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NIKOLAI GOGOL (1809-1852)
In 1831, the young Russian author wrote to his mother, "Suffering from hemorrhoids, I had the foolish idea that it was some other and more dangerous ailment. Later I learned that there was not one man in St. Petersburg free from this nuisance." Lifelong overeating worsened his condition....
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Fashion Firsts1900-Button-Down Collars
John Brooks, of the celebrated men’s outfitters Brooks Brothers, found a day out at the polo grounds in New Bedford a profitable experience. He noticed that some of the...
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7 People Who Were Buried Alive... And Lived!SISTER DELPHINE DE ST. PAUL
(buried 1876, US)
Minnie Keusch was born in Detroit in 1859. At 17 she contracted typhoid fever...
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The Birds And The BeesThe unicellular bacterium, Trichonympha, which lives in the intestines of wood-eating cockroaches, is completely bisexual. The sexual act is performed when the cell playing the male role enters the rear of the female through a special plasma zone and the two cells fuse. Which bacteria will pl...
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ART ATTACK
Fine art can really make you sick. Or so says Dr. Graziella Magherini, author of The Stendhal Syndrome. She has studied more than a hundred tourists in Florence, Italy, who...
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Biographies of Four 19th-Century NovelistsHONORÉ DE BALZAC (1799-1850)
Balzac, one of the supreme writers of realistic fiction, was, in his own life, a man of gross appetites and pretensions as well as of gargantuan genius and accomplishment...
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The Cat Came Back: 15 Cats Who Traveled Long Distances to Return HomeNINJA—850 miles
Brent Todd and his family moved from Farmington, Utah, to Mill Creek, a suburb of Seattle, in April 1996, taking with them their eight-year-old tomcat, Ninja. After a week...
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15 Strange StoriesThe Fortean Times: The World of Strange Phenomena is a monthly magazine of news, reviews, and research on all types of unusual experiences. It is named after philosopher Charles Fort (1874-1932), who thought that data that did not fit the scientific norm should not be excluded or ignored by...
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13 Strange DeathsThe People's Almanacs and the Books of Lists were two series of amazing books that were started by a father, son, and daughter in the 1970s. For us, they are a great feat of alternative reference material-kind of like Wikipedia before there was an internet. We recently called up David Wallechinksy, ...
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