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In the course of their careers in the business of writing and selling books, russell ash and brian lake have collected hundreds of bizarre examples from this extensive field. See more ideas about human oddities, medical and weird. Al attended pratt institute and the art institute of fort lauderdale. The mutter museum has an extensive archive of past and permanent exhibitions. Popular oddities books meet your next favorite book. As long as you know where to look, youre more than welcome to go and gaze in wonderment andor disgust at these curious little finds. Cwm pronounced koom, defined as a steepwalled hollow on a hillside is a rare case of a word used in english in which w is the nucleus vowel, as is crwth pronounced krooth, a type of stringed instrument. His first book, culture shock was published by a small publishing company in 1981. While oddities are not particularly desirable, miracles make us happy and strengthen our faith. Please stop reading now if you dont enjoy potentially disturbing medical oddities.

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A medical oddity is an unusual predicament or event which takes place in a medical context. See more ideas about medical, human oddities and vintage medical. Ernst hausner fools towermedical oddities, anatomical. Size is indicated on the thumb screw slide in the center of each. From the onset, and all the way through, this is an exercise in material that will make your jaw drop in surprise.

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