Examination of the body of Pharaoh Ramses V, who died in 1157 B.C., revealed pustulelike scars on the face, neck, and shoulders, which appeared to have been caused by smallpox.

It's the alteration of the little words that makes all the difference between Poetry & piddle.

In a widely publicized incident in 1968, residents of Rahoon, a housing estate on the outskirts of Galway City, picketed a proposed official campsite in their area and forced the city to abandon work on it. A year later, a group of residents still angry because several Traveller families remained camped near the abandoned site armed themselves with sticks and attacked the families. They uprooted tents and physically pushed the Travellers and their belongings into the street. The incident gave rise to a new word in the national lexicon, rahoonery, meaning violently anti-Traveller sentiment and action.

Then, just a few nights before August 6, Gilbert testified that a slug of sand-rock weighing an estimate of one to two tons fell on his continuous miner as he was taking a cut, approximately fifteen feet from where he was standing.