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Between 1759 and 1760, all dogs on the streets in London were destroyed with a reward of two shillings each because of a fear of rabies. The first large scale rabies outbreak occurred in Franconia in 1271 when rabid wolves invaded the town and killed 30 people with the infection. In 1804, a single rabid wolf descended from the mountains in Crema, Italy, and spread the disease to 13 people, who all died of hydrophobia. A Peruvian outbreak of the virus occurred in 1803 killing 42 people in 90 days. Angola was ravaged by rabies in 2009 killing 83 children.
My sister got bit by a dog when she was little. She was sitting on the porch putting on roller skates when some mutt came up and bit her on the leg. They couldn't find the dog for a while and she had to start getting those rabies shots. She described the shots to me, how they used a long needle and shoved it in her stomach. She only ended up getting half of the shots because they finally found the dog, killed it and cut his head off and determined it wasn't rabid. That was enough to put the fear into me about rabies. I started carrying rocks with me whenever I had to walk through the neighborhood.
Once I was walking with my brother down a sidewalk and some guy opened his door and two pit bulls came charging out towards us. I nailed the lead dog on top of the noggin with a rock and he let out a yelp and ran back to his house. The other dog, seeing pain in his future, retreated as well. The owner started cussing at me but I didn't give a damn, at least I didn't get bit. On the was back I saw the two dogs peeking out the window at us.
William H Westfall (1843-1881)
He was a train conductor who was killed when Jesse James shot him in the back because he believed he led the Pinkertons to his farm where they threw a bomb into his mother's house blowing off her arm.
The SS Central America " The Ship of Gold "
Was a steamer with 420 passengers and 30,000 pounds of gold that sank in a hurricane in 1857 and contributed to the "Panic of 1857"
The ship was found in 1988 and 39 insurance companies crawled out of the woodwork trying to claim the gold.
The first magnets were not invented, but rather were found from a naturally occurring mineral called magnetite. The ancient Greeks were the discoverers of magnetite. There is a story about a shepherd named Magnes whose shoe nails stuck to a rock containing magnetite. There is an alternate story about a region of Macedonia called Magnesia as the starting point.
I tried to find some more info on Kate McSorley but there isn't that much out there.
She might have been the younger sister of Trick McSorley, he was a major league baseball player.
They are both buried in the same cemetery and in the same section.
While working for Dupont, Dr. Roy Plunkett discovered Teflon in 1938 by accident.
He and his assistant, Jack Rebok, were experimenting with alternative refrigerants when they discovered the substance inside one of their frozen cylinders of gas.
Teflon is the only known substance that a gecko's feet cannot stick to. The first U.S. based Teflon coated pan was marketed in 1961 and was called " The Happy Pan."
Thomas Edison's last breath is kept in a test tube at the Henry Ford Museum.
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