Switzerland, for example, had a long-standing nonvisa agreement with Germany, but in the summer of 1938, alarmed by the prospect of a Jewish deluge, they demanded some form of travel identification.

Arriving mostly in sealed plastic bags, these included birds’ feet, whole feathers or tiny bits of down, and pulverized bird guts, known as snarge.

The May 12 quake triggered massive landslides in mountainous Sichuan province, blocking rivers and creating more than 30 unstable quake lakes that are threatening millions of people.

Henry Ford was a fanatical tobaccophobe and, had it been possible, would have insisted that all of his employees give up cigarettes.