And one of his favorite authors was Karl May, a German who wrote a bunch of "romantic" novels about the American West without ever visiting (though he did visit very late in life).

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Though as part of a recent trade deal, certain kinds of sugar free gum may be permitted in the country again, if prescribed by a dentist!

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And an old Amoco (now BP building) in Chicago's suburbs had to be shut down because of a coincidence of cancer. From a 1998 article:

Medical researchers looking into a puzzling outbreak of brain tumors at an Amoco Corp. research center say they have made an important step towards finding the cause of the problem.

Since 1989, 17 cases of head tumors have turned up among research and development workers at Amoco's Naperville research center outside Chicago. Seven of the victims have been diagnosed with the deadly form of brain tumor called glioma, all of them men, even though more than a third of the employees in the complex are women. Four of the glioma patients have died.

At least five of the men worked in Building 503. Most worked on the building's third floor, and three were in one laboratory. All seven worked in similar chemical research projects, although mostly not in the same place or at the same time. That limits the scope of the investigation to about 34 projects among the thousands conducted at the center in the past 28 years.

"We're starting to see some patterns emerge," Michael S. Wells, Amoco's manager of epidemiology, told the Chicago Tribune.

All seven men diagnosed with gliomas worked in polymer research and catalyst development, Wells said. At least two overlapped on 34 projects; three of the men worked on one project. But because all worked on the same general subject area, they probably used many of the same materials -- a wide range of metals.

"We know that some metals are neurotoxins," Wells said, adding none of the metals in these projects have been linked to brain tumors.

Researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore have been hired by Amoco to solve the mystery. They determined that seven cases would be within a normal range of probability for the 8,000 people who have worked at the complex, but that it is abnormal for so many people to be affected in part of one building.

"That's about seven times higher than what you'd expect," Wells said.

12783 The Pyramid of the Sun (Teotihuacan, Mexico) and the Great Pyramid of Egypt are almost equal to one another in base perimeter (the base of the Great Pyramid is 1.03 times larger than the base of the Pyramid of the Sun).

The ratio of the base perimeter to the height deviates only by 0.05 %
from the value for
2x pi (6.2831853)
for the Great Pyramid
and also by 0.05 % from the value for 4x pi (12.566371) for the Pyramid of the Sun.

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Lots of people talk and few of them know, soul of a woman was created below

I can't get through to her 'cause it doesn't permit
But I'm gonna give her everything I've got to give.

I hear your sweet voice calling
out my name
As I stare from a six foot cell
And from beyond I heard the words
Deceptively Yours

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12791~The Great Pyramid (the Pyramid of Khufu, or Cheops in Greek) at Gizeh, Egypt, demonstrates the remarkable character of its placement on the face of the Earth. The Pyramid lies in the center of gravity of the continents. It also lies in the exact center of all the land area of the world, dividing the earth's land mass into approximately equal quarters. The north-south axis (31 degrees east of Greenwich) is the longest land meridian, and the east-west axis (30 degrees north) is the longest land parallel on the globe. There is obviously only one place that these longest land-lines of the terrestrial earth can cross, and it is at the Great Pyramid! This is incredible, one of the scores of features of this mighty structure which begs for a better explanation.

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Lots of people talk and few of them know, soul of a woman was created below

I can't get through to her 'cause it doesn't permit
But I'm gonna give her everything I've got to give.

I hear your sweet voice calling
out my name
As I stare from a six foot cell
And from beyond I heard the words
Deceptively Yours

12,792~Good afternoon, all.

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12,793 ... Hi, IAKG. Good to see ya'.

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hello... good afternoon/evening all...

popping in real quick before heading out for some drinks and food

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