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• The people of Halifax invented the trampoline. During the Victorian period the tripe-dressers of Halifax stretched tripe across a large wooden frame and jumped up and down on it to `tender and dress' it.
  The tripoline, as they called it, degenerated into becoming the apparatus for a spectator sport....
• The people of Halifax invented the trampoline. During the Victorian period the tripe-dressers of Halifax stretched tripe across a large wooden frame and jumped up and down on it to `tender and dress' it.
  The tripoline, as they called it, degenerated into becoming the apparatus for a spectator sport....
• America was discovered by Amerigo Vespucci and was named after him, until people got tired of living in a place called "Vespuccia" and changed its name to "America".
  -- Mike Harding, "The Armchair Anarchist's Almanac...
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• Economics, n.: Economics is the study of the value and meaning of J.
  K. Galbraith ... -- Mike Harding, "The Armchair Anarchist's Almanac...