The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, essentially what today we might term a frameless magnifying glass or plain glass paperweight.

Most of the guests were out on the front lawn, guzzling away, real bucketheads.

The great French microbiologist Louis Pasteur … lost three of his five children to typhoid fever.

Well, it's official: you lost your mind!