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...Pliny the Elder listed the onion as a cure for 28 diseases. Early New England settlers believed that the onion would prevent fits; Neapolitans of the Middle Ages thought it averted the evil eye. A 16th Century French surgeon, Ambroise Parè, used it instead of ointment to heal powder burns...
...feed the growing empire, Lyons built a 70-acre plant near London to process coffee, tea, custard powder, chocolate. Lyons, which now employs some 30,000 people, sells an average of 770,000 meals and 680,000 cups of tea and coffee a day, turns out 2,000,000 servings of ice cream, nearly 500,000 cakes. At the end of its last fiscal year, it listed total assets of ?19,414,076, reported a net profit for the year...
There are no perilous inclines to navigate, no trees or cleverly hidden boulders to dodge, and no budding slat experts to schuss by you asserting their proficiency in a spray of icy powder; just a refreshing surface of water through which to plunge and a dozen scantilly-clad maidens to console you in your athletic short-comings...
...Answer. In Alaganik, Alaska, a search party hunting Jimmy La Gasa, who had fired a rifle at a powder magazine just to see what would happen, found...
This week expanded winter resort facilities started full blast. An average foot of base and up to a two inch blanket of powder made conditions fair to good in most areas. A few regularly scheduled ski trains will be rolling out of the Boston and Maine station loaded with College vacationers this weekend...