Biomedical Ephemera, or: A Frog for Your Boils turned 3 today!
Or so my email tells me.
News: The Zarkster is getting his surgery at the end of the month, and we're still raising funds for that. Lot 1 went unclaimed so I'll be re-drawing that this weekend. Lots 2 and 3 will be posted in the coming week/s.
Posting should be back to its regular daily schedule after Memorial Day (May 26), but I have some half-finished posts that I'll finish up before then.
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Here are some much more interesting May 15 anniversaries than this blog's birthday:
- 296 years ago - In 1718, London lawyer James Puckle patents the first machine gun.
- 197 years ago - In 1817, the first private mental health hospital (it was called the Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason. Hows that for a name?) opened in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was one of the first mental health hospitals that attempted to treat patients with respect and dignity, and is still open today as Friends Hospital.
- 145 years ago - In 1869, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony form the National Woman Suffrage Association, in New York City. It would take more than 50 years for all women in the United States to have the right to vote.
- 51 years ago - In 1963, Project Mercury launches its final flight, making astronaut L. Gordon Cooper the first American to spend more than one day in space, and paving the way for the Apollo missions.
- 4 years ago - In 2010, 16-year-old Australian Jessica Watson completed her non-stop circumnavigation of the globe, becoming, by most record-books (though, due to technicalities, not all) the youngest skipper to do so.
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