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Originally Posted by Golfingnut
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That is an interesting list. I am pretty sure Joan of Arc would be labeled a paranoid schizophrenic if she tried making a similar approach to the French President today about removing some invading force based upon her hearing the voices of some angel only she sees.
Ben Franklin used to love airing himself out naked in the morning. Not sure if I do that I will become famous.
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And early most mornings, before he set to work, Franklin would sit, he wrote to a friend in France in 1768, “without any clothes whatever, half an hour or an hour, according to the season,” at his open, first-floor window, letting the air circulate over his, by then, considerable bulk. What the neighbors thought is apparently not recorded.
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