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Byers Was Not Merely “Involved” With Claim Clubs – He Was Up to His Eyeballs in These Quasi-legal Cesspools of Frontier Justice

Here we attempt to unravel the tangled web of William N. Byers and his dalliances with those frontier bastions of vigilante justice known as claim clubs. Are we to believe… Read more.

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William N. Byers – The Nebraska years (1854-1859)

William Byers didn’t just become the first deputy surveyor in Nebraska Territory – he carved that godforsaken wilderness into a semblance of civilization with nothing but his wits and a… Read more.

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The Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati Railway (CCC) Played a Role in Abraham Lincoln’s Funeral Procession

According to the internet, the locomotive Nashville, owned by the Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati Railroad (a predecessor of the CCC&I), pulled the funeral train while it traveled through Ohio. The… Read more.

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William N. Byers – The Ohio and Iowa Years (1831 – 1854)

William Newton Byers, that paragon of pioneer pluck, burst forth from his mother’s womb on February 22, 1831, in West Jefferson, Madison County, Ohio. This wasn’t just any birth – it… Read more.

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Pituri, AKA Mingkulpa Wiki

Leaves are gathered from any of several species of native tobacco (Nicotiana) or from at least one distinct population of the species Duboisia hopwoodii. Various species of Acacia, Grevillea and Eucalyptus are burned to produce the… Read more.

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Arsenic: The Element of Surprise (and Murder)

Let’s dive into the sordid history of arsenic, the “King of Poisons” and the “Poison of Kings.” Our story begins in ancient times, when alchemists were busy trying to turn… Read more.

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Baruch Samuel Blumberg (1925 – 2011) Wiki

He was also president of the American Philosophical Society from 2005 until his death. Blumberg and Gajdusek received the Nobel Prize for discovering “new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious… Read more.

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Daniel Carleton Gajdusek (1923 – 2008) Wiki

His papers are held at the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland and at the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Early life and education Gajdusek’s father, Karol Gajdusek, was a Slovak butcher from Smrdáky, Kingdom of Hungary,… Read more.

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A History of Hepatitis B Vaccine

Preliminary work In 1963, the American physician/geneticist Baruch Blumberg, working at the Fox Chase Cancer Center, discovered what he called the “Australia Antigen” (HBsAg) in the serum of an Australian Aboriginal person. In 1968,… Read more.

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