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| These are the times that try men's souls. Thomas Paine |
| Remember that credit is money. Benjamin Franklin |
| It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees. Delores Ibarruri |
| The child was diseased at birth, stricken with a hereditary ill that only the most vital men are able to shake off. I mean povertythe most deadly and prevalent of all diseases. Eugene O'Neill |
| Nothing is as terrible to see as ignorance in action. Goethe |
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| Maps : Oldest A clay tablet depicting the river Euphrates flowing through northern Mesopotamia (Iraq) dates to c . 2250 B.C. The earliest printed map in the world is one of western China dated to 1115. |
| Commerce : Largest drug stores - The largest chain of drug stores in the world is Rite Aid Corporation of Shiremanstown, PA, which in 1991 had 2,452 branches throughout the United States. The Walgreen Co. of Deerfield, IL has fewer stores, but a larger volume of sales, totaling $6.9 billion in 1991. |
| Food : Strawberry bowl - The largest bowl of strawberries ever picked had a net weight of 4,832 lb. The strawberries were picked at Walt Furlong's farm at New Ross, Republic of Ireland during the Enniscorthy Strawberry Fair on 9 Jul 1989. |
| Muscles : Longest - The longest muscle in the human body is the sartorius, which is a narrow, ribbonlike muscle running from the pelvis across the front of the thigh to the top of the tibia below the knee. Its function is to draw the lower limb into the cross-legged sitting position, proverbially associated with tailors. |
| Rodents : Longest hibernation - The barrow ground squirrel ( Spermophilus parryi barrowensis ) of Point Barrow, AK hibernates for nine months of the year. During the remaining three months it feeds, breeds and collects food for storage in its burrow. |
