The Nineteenth Century Was A Time Of Many Great Inventions And Thoughts.

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The nineteenth century was a time of many great inventions and thoughts.
The invention of the steamboat caused a network of rivers to spring up. Cyrus
McCormick invented the McCormick Raper, which did the work of a hundred men.
Samuel Morse invented a code for telepathy. Louis Pastuer discovered a cure
for rabbis. Charles Darwin was a naturalist who wrote the "Organ of the
Species". Madman Curie discovered radium. And Karl Marx became one of the
Marx Brothers. The First World War, cause by the assignation of the
Arch-Duck by a surf, ushered in a new error in the anals of human history.
-- Richard Lederer, "Student Bloopers"

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