Shortly thereafter, many parlors installed kinetophones, in which patrons, after putting a coin in the slot, could peer through an eyepiece at moving pictures and, at the same time, by means of ear-tubes somewhat similar to the physician's stethoscope, listen to a sound accompaniment.

Lewis VIII, king of France, made bequests in the year 1227 to two thousand Leprosaries within his own dominions.

I suspect that cancer doesn't give a rat's ass whether you have a positive mental attitude. It just sits in there multiplying away, whether you are admirably stoic or weeping and wailing.

Why, that's ridiculous!