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Fact of the Day
The first U.S. patent for an animal was issued to geneticists at Harvard University in 1988. The animal--called an oncomouse--is a genetically engineered mouse that is highly susceptible to breast cancer.
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Quote of the Day
"I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning of power."
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Word of the Day
magnanimity
Pronunciation: /mag-nuh-NIM-i-tee/
n : the act or quality of being noble in spirit
"The magnanimity of the victims in not seeking revenge was commendable." |
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"The railway and the steamship will be as obsolete as the stagecoach. It will be as common for the citizen to call for his dirigible balloon as it now is for him to call for his buggy or his boots."
- Kansas political leader John J. Ingalls, 1893.
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Among those successful film actors who never ranked on the Top Ten List Box Office list, as of 1999, were Anne Baxter, Jack Benny, Jeff Bridges, Michael Caine, Jennifer Jones, Bruce Lee, Sophia Loren, Liza Minnelli, David Niven, Peter O'Toole, Joe Pesci, Katharine Ross, and Shelley Winters. |
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