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For every treatment that stands up to double-blind studies, there are kooky folk remedies that survive because of apochryphal claims by people who swear by them.
Weird Folk Remedies From Around The World The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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Another possibly apochryphal story concerns the debate on the House floor regarding the income tax amendment.
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For every treatment that stands up to double-blind studies, there are kooky folk remedies that survive because of apochryphal claims by people who swear by them.
Weird Folk Remedies From Around The World The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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Another possibly apochryphal story concerns the debate on the House floor regarding the income tax amendment.
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On further investigation, though, I think the French claim is completely apochryphal, since it involves an origin for the Martini that predates the Martinez.
princeofcairo: And Another Eleven Things ... princeofcairo 2009
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Aside from this being no doubt an apochryphal tale, we should not be so culturally arrogant to try to impose our standards on the Iraqi people.
Intolerance Of The Seemingly Intolerant « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2009
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There was an apochryphal story during the 1984 Winter Olympics that the Russian and Finnish biathletes would practice on each other, for real, across the frontier between the two countries.
The Flax of Life: Nü-Fred Look, Classic Fred Taste BikeSnobNYC 2009
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It's so much fun to write a book of apochryphal and anecdotal stories than to actually do research.
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Bush Blair and a Rabid Pope hardly shocks only a greater conspiracy of destroying Islam unlocks .. your apocalyptic apochryphal epitaph on a wayside poetic tombstone of this deserted
A Poet in the Dock « bollywoods most wanted photographerno1 2006
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Bush Blair and a Rabid Pope hardly shocks only a greater conspiracy of destroying Islam unlocks .. your apocalyptic apochryphal epitaph on a wayside poetic tombstone of this deserted
2006 December 17 « bollywoods most wanted photographerno1 2006
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