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Panthalassans
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an rare chance to ask any question of a person who successfully used the open tab on a cardboard food container

Jay Pinkerton’s Spider-Man Comics!

A perennial favorite.

When Chopin finished a piece he stopped writing it

Viking gate found

Artists designing masks for disfigured WWI veterans

The very nature of trench warfare, moreover, proved diabolically conducive to facial injuries: "[T]he...soldiers failed to understand the menace of the machine gun," recalled Dr. Fred Albee, an American surgeon working in France. "They seemed to think they could pop their heads up over a trench and move quickly enough to dodge the hail of bullets."

[Mr. Wood’s] metallic masks, lightweight and more permanent than the rubber prosthetics previously issued, were custom designed to bear the prewar portrait of each wearer. Within the surgical and convalescent wards, it was grimly accepted that facial disfigurement was the most traumatic of the multitude of horrific damages the war inflicted. "Always look a man straight in the face," one resolute nun told her nurses. "Remember he's watching your face to see how you're going to react."