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Francisco earthquake in 1906 when she was about 4 years old. That genealogy website is wrong. Please look into this and fix it once and for all! Thanks for the help and have a great day!
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Has anybody written about the ethical implications of doing polygraph testing on the paternity of a man to a child? There are TV talk shows, where people would just do "paternity testing" in addition to "taking the lie detector test". What would happen if a man really did not cheat on his wife, but
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Every time I edit the Gracie Allen page, someone changes it back. I'm not very good at editing wiki pages so I keep messing up how to cite my source. Gracie Allen was born in 1902, it says so right on her head stone ( findagrave.com) yet a source from a genealogy website claims she was born in 1895
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I have looked at a batch of pics online and do not see a bump so I am guessing that it is either an accident that happened in real life just before filming the episode that you watched or it is part of the storyline and the makeup crew put it there to match the plot. Hopefully someone else who
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Yes, that's it. A Google search confirms it's the same comic book series. I'm not sure about the individual issue, but those black birds on the cover do seem to match those I remember. How many issues were there? Does anyone know whether this one was the only one translated to
Finnish or not?
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