Top Items About Germs

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AnecdotesGlass Menagerie?

In the mid-1950s, Bob Wolff became the voice of Madison Square Garden. "The reason I got the job," Wolff once recalled,...

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AnecdotesSerendipity

Alexander Fleming`s famous discovery of penicillin at St Mary`s Hospital in 1928 was occasioned by a speck of...

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AnecdotesHoward Hughes: Germophobe

"One day when Howard Hughes was eating a cookie, he offered me a bite," Jean Harlow once recalled of the famously...

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"Any person with symptoms of diarrhea is prohibitted from swimming at this time."

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AnecdotesGermophobe

"If anyone in his household sneezed my father would cry for a servant to pack his bag. While this was being done he...

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AnecdotesBaghdad Hospital

The great Persian physician Rhazes (whose encyclopedic works influences the study of medicine throughout the Middle Ages)...

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AnecdotesBilly Bob Thornton: Urgent Announcement

"Contrary to popular reports," Billy Bob Thornton once remarked, "I don`t only eat orange food. And the stuff about how...

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AnecdotesHowie Mandel: New York Deli

"I was in New York," Howie Mandel once recalled, "and the owner of the deli walks out - he recognizes me. He walks out....

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AnecdotesDueling Dogs?

Otto von Bismarck, enraged by Rudolf Virchow`s constant criticism, one day ordered his seconds to arrange a duel....

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