Inheritance
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The Forgery of the Toad
There was a expert on reptiles named g. Kings noble, gladwin kingsley noble. And when he examined it, he noticed that there was a syringe hole there. So how did he explain it? Well, he thought it might have been an assistant trying to frame him,. Because he was jewish, and, you know, t there was a kind of anti semitism growing at this time. Six weeks after a noble published his results in nature, camere sent a letter to moscow turning down a job that they'd offered him because it would reflect badly on the soviet state.
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