I heard in an American History class that syphilis may have been a disease the Native Americans had to give the Europeans. There was speculation that the Lewis and Clark journey and people associated with it had deaths of unknown origin, with symptoms of what we know as syphilis.
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"The question isn't who is going to let me, it's who is going to stop me." (Ayn Rand)
"The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers." (M. Scott Peck)
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