It’s Friday, I’m in Love!

Snake Oil This deserves a post of its own. Where does the term snake oil come from? Chinese labourers on railroad gangs involved in building the First Transcontinental Railroad first gave snake oil to Europeans with joint pain.[1] When rubbed on the skin at the painful site, snake oil was claimed to bring relief. This claim was ridiculed by rival medicine […]

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It’s Friday, I’m in Love!

Book Project Please, please take a look at my Book Project and help out!  I’m about half way to my goal and I’m going to extend this until Christmas Break, which is the week before Christmas.  I spoke to the librarian and she said one little girl who read the *first* donated book (a biography) […]

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