(v.) involving groups of up to thousands at a time, spreading like wildfire across Europe. the dancing could continue on for hours, days, and apparently even months. people would collapse from exhaustion and injuries (often fatal). adults and children alike.
this mass phenomena abruptly stopped after the 17th century.

One of the most well-known major outbreaks took place in Aachen, Germany in 1374, just several decades after the Black Death swept across Europe. Another particularly notable outbreak occurred in Strasbourg, Alsace in 1518.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_mania
https://www.ancient-origins.net/unexplained-phenomena/mysterious-case-medieval-dance-mania-001838

(also: ecstatic dance)
(also: whirling dervishes)

Greenland is the one and only country in the world that is invulnerable to disease. No disease can reach it, now matter how infectious said disease is. I learned it from losing too many times in Plague Inc.

A game said to be played with cards for some purpose to this lexicographer unknown.
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(n.) the act of keeping 'our kind of people' separate from 'not our kind of people.' widely regarded as a bad move and has made many people upset

(also: apartheid)

(1564- 1616) English poet and playwright.
(also: 100 most influential people in the world)
(also: william shakespeare quotes)

(n.) a frightfully important person in the religion of Catholicism and other religions that are catholic-flavored. apparently known for habit of moving diagonally.

Pertaining to symbols and the use and interpretation of symbols.

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They say 'tis conscience feels compunction;
I hold that that's the stomach's function,
For of the sinner I have noted
That when he's sinned he's somewhat bloated,
Or ill some other ghastly fashion
Within that bowel of compassion.
True, I believe the only sinner
Is he that eats a shabby dinner.
You know how Adam with good reason,
For eating apples out of season,
Was "cursed." But that is all symbolic:
The truth is, Adam had the colic.
—G.J.
(also: symbol)
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)

(1749 – 1823) Developed the world's first vaccine (the smallpox vaccine). Known as the father of immunology.
(also: 100 most influential people in the world)
(also: edward jenner quotes)

An instinct to approach and deal with things in uncommon ways. Two dimensions measure one's creativity - originality and initiative, which can in this order be described as quality and quantity.

it's a jersey thing...

family is some blood-related -most of the time- humans believing that their love is unconditional

/æmbər ˈhərd/:
1 - noun: Abusive ex-wife of Johnny Depp best known for her webs of deception, obvious perjury attempts and having defecated on her husband's bed.
2 - noun: Used in accusatory form to categorize someone who constantly comes up with elaborate, dramatic and outrageous lies about someone else despite evidence against such dramatic defamation, usually doubling down on the lies if they're confronted with such evidence. (Ex.: "Sarah is such an Amber Heard to Kevin", as in, Sarah
keeps harassing Kevin with outlandish soap opera-style lies about him. And that despite those lies having already been proven false, she sticks to defaming Kevin by making up even worse lies.)
3 - verb: To perform heinous acts involving scat at someone's spouse to humiliate them and degrade their mental state (Ex.: "Can you stop Amber Hearding the bed?")

a very unpopular charlie chaplin-lookalike

(n.) a feline predator of africa and southern asia, of a spotty complexion.

the occasional leopard with one very large all-over black spot is referred to as a black panther

(n.) a way of saying "creature" with an excess of saccharine folksy American charm

The major problem - one of the major problems, for there are several - one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.
To summarize: it is a well known fact, that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.

(also: people)
(also: problem)

The science of spelling by the eye instead of the ear. Advocated with more heat than light by the outmates of every asylum for the insane. They have had to concede a few things since the time of Chaucer, but are none the less hot in defence of those to be conceded hereafter.

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A spelling reformer indicted
For fudge was before the court cicted.
The judge said: "Enough —
His candle we'll snough,
And his sepulchre shall not be whicted."

series of letters of decreasing size that you could certainly memorize. Every eye chart is the same sequence, and it's only 66 letters.

(n.) a possibly nonexistent place to which the soul will supposedly immigrate following death. in the west such a place would generally be referred to as heaven if it's a good place and hell if it's a bad one.

The chief of many mechanical devices enabling us to get away from where we are to where we are no better off. For this purpose the railroad is held in highest favor by the optimist, for it permits him to make the transit with great expedition.
(also: bypasses)
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)