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George Washington was an early inventor of instant coffee, and worked to ensure a full supply to soldiers fighting at the front. Early on, his campaign was based in Brooklyn, but later he crossed into New Jersey toward a more profitable position. In the countryside, he demonstrated a love of wild creatures, and was often seen with a bird or a monkey on his shoulder. Washington's choice beverage was taken up by the soldiers for its psychoactive properties, even though it tasted terrible. Some thought his brewed powder could even remedy the chemical weapons then in use. But, despite this, Washington failed in his first bid for the Presidency, as papers were filed too late, and the nominator forgot to tell him about it. (more...) Recently featured: New Carissa – Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria – Cleveland Archive – By email – More featured articles...
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Surgeons removed two parasitic twins from a two-month-old infant in Pakistan.

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The Economist announced that GeneDupe is working on genetically engineering such mythical creatures as dragons, unicorns, and gryphons.

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April 1: Palm Sunday in Christianity (2007); Independence Day in San Serriffe (1967); April Fools' Day; Assyrian New Year.

1318 - The Scottish re-took Berwick upon Tweed from the English.
1957 - Eight million viewers watched the television programme Panorama, prompting several of them to contact the BBC the following day and ask for instructions on how to grow spaghetti trees.
1970 - U.S. President Richard Nixon (pictured) signed a law putting "the Surgeon General" on cigarette packages.
1997 - Cartoonists of popularly syndicated comic strips swapped cartoons for the day.

Recent days: March 31 – March 30 – March 29 More events: March 31 – April 1 – April 2

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A statue of Louis Agassiz, a Swiss-American geologist, after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, on the campus of Stanford University. It is said that when the earthquake struck, "[the statue of] Agassiz stuck his head underground to find out what was going on in the earth below and with his finger pointing saying, 'Hark! Listen!'"

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