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• The Wizard of Zone Once upon a time in Depression-era Kansas there was a little black boy named Zachary X (pronounced "ex" not "ten") who lived on a farm.
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  His boss and wife both suggested that he take an Andrew Carnegie course....
• There were three medieval kingdoms on the shores of a lake.
  There was an island in the middle of the lake, over which the kingdoms had been fighting for years....
• A Most Bizarre Suicide At the 1994 annual awards dinner given by the American Association for Forensic Science
  AAFS president Don Harper Mills astounded his audience in San Diego with the legal complications of a bizarre death....
• In the mid-sixties, there was a hippy named Benny in San Francisco.
  Benny was real hip, but he just couldn't grow a beard like the rest of the flower child guys in Haight-Ashbury (Hashbury)....
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