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Current Affairs
3 | Sleep Paralysis: Scientific Explanation, or DEMONS at Work?
Lourdita Remedios writes about causes of sleep paralysis and lucid dreaming
4 | #Blacklivesmatter
Recent strings of police brutality in America prompt questions of democracy and change.
5 | Trouble in Peshawar
Massacres in Pakistani schools.
Comments
12 | No Daylight Permitted: An Essay On Prisoner Enfranchisement
Should prisoners be allowed to vote?
Culture
10 | Book Reviews
Malcolm X’s Autobiography
6 - 7 | School Events | The Leadership Effect
The Action Day seminar highlighted the purposes and elements of leadership, but what does Paul Amuzie really think? page 10 by Sebastian Atkinstall
8 | School Events | Suffrage Succotash!
Politics Week’s ‘Rock Enrol’ workshop sees student’s registered and discussing Democracy by Sebastian
Atkinstall
F E A T U R E S C O N T E N T S |
15 | Submissions | PHOTOGRAPHS AND
POEMS BY
BY SEBASTIAN ATKINSTALL
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MAGINE OPENING YOUR EYES TO confront raven black darkness. Your eyes trail
leisurely down the floorboards when all of a sudden you notice a set of fingers the colour of mould grasping the ends of your mattress; its bony, crumbled flesh baring no fingernails starts thudding on your bed exposing its narrow shoulders covered in musky grime. You feel your eyes bulging open, your breathing increasing, you try to open your mouth to scream-BUT nothing comes out; unexpectedly another hand pummels on your mattress, this time the force jarring. You notice a figure slowly rising from the floorboard until it faces you for a deep five seconds; you notice the figure’s face is hidden, covered by its long raven coloured hair, the strands of its hair dangling chaotically from its head. With the force of your hand you try to pull yourself up but you feel a great force kneeling on your chest restricting your every move. The disturbing figure begins crawling towards you. The sound of shuffling footsteps echoing in your ears. You realise you
can’t speak, scream or even move a MUSCLE. Your constant attempt to strain repeatedly diminishes until the point where you give up and close your eyes only to awaken and realise it was all a dream.
THIS WEIRD PHENOMENON IS CALLED SLEEP paralysis - a state in which your muscles contract in order to prevent you from acting out your dreams. On occasion some individual will experience sleep paralysis at least once or twice in their life, while others experience it habitually four-to-five times a night. This paralysis can last from a few seconds to
several minutes and occurs during REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep where your body is temporarily paralysed until you regain conscience.
ALTHOUGH SLEEP PARALYSIS does not cause you any harm,
not being able to move for a certain period of time can be very confusing and in most case extremely frightening. Sleep paralysis may accompany other sleep disorders such as narcolepsy. Narcolepsy is an
by a problem with the brain’s ability to regulate sleep. This common condition is often noticed first in teenage years. But men and women of any age can get it. It may run genetically in the family but other factors linked to sleep paralysis include: the lack of sleep, mental health conditions such as stress or bipolar disorder, sleeping on your back, use of certain medication and also substance abuse.
A LUCID DREAMER EXPERIENCES SLEEP paralysis quite regularly and as a result suffers false memories. When we are asleep we are consolidating memories subconsciously. When you have a lucid dream you are conscious it is no longer a dream. It’s a memory. You’re having an active memory. For instance you’re actively walking in your dream and you recognise all the objects around you- it’s now a memory and at the same time you’re consolidating memories so the false memory you have are actually dreams. So in this instance when your conscience and you come across the same scenario as your dream you say “Ah, I’m having dejavu.” Even though you have never encountered it in reality. Lucid dreamers are conscious in their dreams. All the dream you have mixed with the consolidation process result in you having memory that are dreams being consolidated into actual memory.
by LOURDITA REMEDIOS
S L E E PC U R R E N T A F F A I R S |
SLEEP
PARALYSIS
Scientific Explanation, or
DEMONS at Work?
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REYVON MARTIN; February
26th 2012. He was shot in
the front yard of
neighbourhood watch volunteer
George Zimmerman for allegedly
trespassing, and the latter almost
got away with second degree
murder on the basis of him ‘standing
his ground’. Eric Garner; July 17th
2014. He was approached on the
suspicion of selling un-taxed
cigarettes, and later gasped, eleven
times, about how he couldn’t
breathe after being put in a
grappling hold. He died shortly
afterward. Tamir Rice; November
22nd 2014. One of the two police
officers fired two shots within two
seconds of arriving to subdue Rice
under the false pretence of him
possessing a gun. Guess what? It was
a fake, harmless airsoft gun, so the
reason for murder is technically
invalid. Lastly Michael Brown –
August 9th 2014. Ferguson officer
Darren Wilson fired eight ‘warning
shots’ into Brown’s back which lead
to his death. Witness reports
differed as to whether and when
Brown had his hands raised, and
whether he was moving toward
Wilson when the final shots were
fired.
YOU SHOULD ALREADY have an idea of what these four victims have in common; if not, it’s as simple as the skin they’re wearing on their backs. But, this article isn’t to advocate hate against the police, but to raise awareness about the injustice the black demographic face in the USA. Put it in perspective: if the federal department commit these evils to these innocent black people, imagine what they’ll do to the entirety of their population when they’re through. Darren Wilson hasn’t been indicted (which means he isn’t going to court for his crime), and it’s unquestionable that he be trialled for what he did.
PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT ON YOUR preferred social networks to search ‘#blacklivesmatter’ – the more you’re informed about police brutality, the better, because every single person, no matter what race, matters. Thank you.
by JOSEPH YAMBASU
#BLACKLIVESMATTER A testimony to the black lives taken by the US
Police Force.
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Protesters in New York demanding justice.
U S AC U R R E N T A F F A I R S |
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HE PAKISTANI CITY OF Peshawar
is burying its dead after a
Taliban attack at a school.
At least 132 children and nine staff
were killed. One instance of the
massacre involves the Taliban
terrorist group burning a teacher
alive and made the students watch
during their attack on a Pakistan
school, before executing all 132 of
them by beheading, and mass
execution-style murder.
THIS IS THE DEADLIEST TERRORIST ATTACK to
ever happen in Pakistan. This
surpasses the Karachi bombings of
2007, which was a controlled
explosion on a motorcade in a failed
attempt to murder the former Prime
Minister Benazir Bhutto. She was
unharmed. However, this wasn’t left
without any casualties, with over
139 deaths and 450 injuries
sustained, a majority of the dead
TROUBLE IN PESHAWAR
Terrorist attacks in Pakistani
schools leaves 148 dead.
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P A K I S T A NC U R R E N T A F F A I R S |
“My son was
my dream. My
dream has been
killed.”
being members of the Pakistan
People’s Party.
“MY SON WAS IN UNIFORM THIS
morning. He’s in a casket now,”
wailed one parent, Tahir Ali, as
he came to the hospital to
collect the body of his 14-year-
old son Abdullah. “My son was
my dream. My dream has been
killed.”
PRIME MINISTER NAWAZ SHARIF
declared three days of mourning
over the massacre, which has
sparked national outrage. He
also announced an end to the
moratorium on the death
penalty for terrorism cases,
which correspondents say is a
move aimed at countering a
view held by many Pakistanis
that many terror suspects end
up evading justice.
by JOSEPH YAMBASU
Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan's
prime minister, announced
Pakistan would be bringing
back the death penalty for
terrorists following the
attacks.
Pakistan's teenage Nobel
Peace laureate Malala
Yousafzai – herself a survivor
of a Taliban shooting – said
she was "heartbroken" by the
bloodshed.
UNREST IN
PAKISTAN
A candlelight vigil in London for the victims
The bloody
aftermath in one
of the
classrooms.
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WHAT do you like to see
young people doing in their
community?
I LIKE TO SEE YOUNG PEOPLE, FIRSTLY, ON a
very basic,
practical level,
speaking out. I
like to see young
people using
their energy and
zest and, quite
frankly, their
oration for the
things they care
about.
On a more
specific level, I
like to see
young people
that are, maybe,
irritated about things
and passionate about things, and
issues in their community, and are
willing to actually do something
about it… yeah, everybody’s busy,
some people have got jobs –
students have exams – but in that
spare time, if you really care about
the place you come from, and the
things around you, you’ll be willing
to make time to do something
about it.
WHAT do you think stunts or
hinders someone from
becoming a leader?
I GUESS THREE THINGS,” HE SAYS HOLDING
up three fingers, “and I’ll put them
down to, one: general
circumstances. If you’re a student,
you’ve got exams, you’ve got a lot of
work to do, you’ve got universities to
research… And I think, what it means
is, you’re in a trajectory where
people say you’ve get to concentrate
on a very basic level. And it shows
that people are very much distracted
from any extracurricular activities
that might be able to develop you as
a leader. So I think that, coupled with
people who don’t know they can
actually develop leadership, or show
leadership through the things they
are already doing ; how they can take
leadership roles, or how they can
develop a leadership skill through the
hobbies or extracurricular work that
they’re doing. So I think there’s a lack
of knowledge there, and a lack of
opportunities sometimes. And lastly,
Paul reads an anecdote about Athenian integrity.
“You’re in a
trajectory…
where people
say you’ve
got to
concentrate
on a very
basic level.
And it shows
that people
are very
much
distracted...”
I N T E R V I E WS C H O O L |
THE LEADERSHIP EFFECT An interview with PAUL AMUZIE
from the North London
Citizenship group (NLC)
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there’s also an apathy to leadership
in general; how it connects to one’s
self-interests. So, if your self-interest
as a student is to get into university
or to get a job, sometimes your have
to connect the benefits of leadership
or showing
leadership to
help you
achieve these
goals.
I think things
are a lot better
now… and it’s a
very general
thing that I’m
saying, but
those are things
that can stop
people to have a
leadership so, you know, the
circumstances that they face and the
places that they’re doing things
already; they’re not able to see those
opportunities to developed
themselves. And also, there’s a
general apathy to leadership.
Because it doesn’t really connect
with their interests.
WHAT would you suggest to
someone who is or has been
a leader, but finds that
certain drive waning?
I THINK THERE ARE IMPORTANT FACETS TO
becoming a leader, and you say
someone who’s been a leader
before... well, maybe they haven’t
been a leader before, and that’s why
it’s waning. Being a leader is not
about being given a role, it’s about
finding something that drives you –
that passion you have – something
you really care about… and fighting
for it.
by SEBASTIAN ATKINSTALL
N MONDAY 17TH
November, The House of
Parliament held one of the last in
a set of three events for Politics
Week. The name of the event
was ‘Rock Enrolled’, a hip
seminar with encouraging da
yoof to vote in mind. With the
next election coming up, and
Labour’s pledge to introduce
voting to 16 year olds, the
seminar may unload the weight
of getting apathetic
teens to get
politically involved.
The theme on
Monday was
Democracy. The
young members
were asked to
share their thoughts
on what democracy
means to them.
Some opinions
ranged from
‘freedom’ to ‘equality’, while the
more radically oriented believed
it was a ‘broken system’ or the
chance for ‘REVOLUTION’. The
rest of the event involved a series
of activities, the first of which
were a set of questions for the
students to vote on. The room
would be divided into thirds –
Left wall, No, Right wall, Yes,
Middle, unsure. They asked
questions such as whether we
should reintroduce capital
punishment, and even whether
the questioner’s jumper looked
cool (to which I stayed
indecisively in the middle). Voting
makes changes, was conclusively
the message. If those questions
were raised in a genuine election,
the students who hadn’t
registered could do
little more than
complain. Then
students were
divided into their
individual
schools and
asked to pretend
they were a country
with a budget of £100.
They had to
decide, in which
sectors (e.g.
Health) they would spend the
most on and why. Later, students
from the sixth form took a tour
around parliament, which most
found either mediocre or
mundane.
by SEBASTIAN ATKINSTALL
“Being a
leader is
not about
being given
a role, it’s
about
finding
something
that drives
you...”
T R I PS C H O O L |
SUFFRAGE SUCCOTASH!
Find out what you missed on the
‘Rock Enrol’ Parliament trip.
Ayman Zeidan and Mohamed Salih make their way to the House of Parliament.
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T IS WINTER, AND THE DULL WIND
makes leafless boughs of a
wuthering Birch. Their
multi-coloured leaves fall until,
everywhere, the gutters fill with –
orange, gold, russet brown, olive
green, magenta. Soon the whirling
sirens sing in the distant traffic. Soon
the sound erupts into a deepening
clamour, and the pavements turn
from red to blue to red… The wheels
roll past, and the rains of night
continue. The rotten leaves are
eaten by the sewers.
PERHAPS YOU’LL HEAR THOSE SAME SIRENS
tonight. Do they make you feel
afraid? Or worried? Cynical? Or safe
because, eventually, the hooded
man with a suspicious gaze is always
caught, or because the fires are
often extinguished before they reach
you? But they aren’t always, are
they? Every corner has it’s shaded
figure, it’s gang of evils. Somewhere
our humanity was cut from the
branches, and the nightfall made it
harder to retrieve. And yet, the
question of universal suffrage still
persists. It is a question of rare
magnitude – to most, the thought is
hardly ever considered, usually since
the answer seems, to them, so
obvious. But, when someone asks
“should prisoners be allowed to
vote?”, the cause of one’s
bewilderment is like a matchstick
tossed in gasoline: small,
destructive, and, when the burning
cools, charred beyond any
recognition. Of course, everyone
should get the right to vote, but
what do the boys gripping knives
beneath their hoodies, the men with
slit and stony eyes, the deliverers of
pain and suffering have to do with…
politics?
OFTEN, IT’S A QUESTION BOTH
contemptible and strange, and sure
to be met with crinkled eyebrows,
and the upturned nose of scorn. Yes,
that one. To others, it suggests
something different. To others, it
marks a shift in the political tide.
THE MIRROR ON THE WALL OF PAST BELIEFS
is rarely asked “Are we still the
fairest of them all?” – for most it
means the possibility of
disillusionment, the chance that
stronger evidence should support
our judgment, and, perhaps, the
need to fashion new perspectives.
Mostly, though, it brews a crucible
for sceptical dispute and, for better
or worse, the realignment of our
place within a democratic society.
We wipe the fog from our moral
spectacles – sometimes we see
clearer, other times we simply
rearrange the dust.
NO DAYLIGHT PERMITTED: An essay on Prisoner
Enfranchisement
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"Whenever people feel safe, we feel
indifferent" - human beings have this
remarkable capacity to extinguish
care when threats are not
immediate. We aren't impelled to
empathise unless we've experienced
the same thing, and I think everyone
that spouts the "they should have
known better" mantra are a little
callous, and a little simplistic in their
thought. We want a peaceful world -
okay, grand. But it's only speculation
when the actions we endorse are
closer to "an eye for an eye" and the
tallying of transgressions. We make
peace through understanding,
through our better angels - fairness,
compassion, magnanimity - not
through revenge. Revenge is too
easy, and nothing easy is ever worth
doing if the fate of many souls are
left within question.
YOU DO SOMETHING WRONG, AND YOU
want forgiveness, you want
someone to ask "Why did you do
that?", "What tortures you?" and
not to say "you're evil". We don't do
wrong not feeling justified, in fact
we seldom think at all. I know many
will say I'm sentimental, but I'd like
anyone who says so to tell that to
any child who is forgiven, and who
isn't told he is a sinner, or is blamed
and called incorrigible, who is heard
because he has a voice. Tell him
chance is not beauty, and he'll scoff
and walk away. To take away that
voice is to take away his humanity,
and the hope of penitence and
redemption, the very goal of
imprisonment (according to Rule 3 of
the Prison Rules 1999 which says the
purpose of the training and
treatment of convicted prisoners
shall be to encourage and assist
them to lead a good and useful life.
Prison is there to assist not debase a
citizen.)
TO TAKE AWAY THE VOTE FROM A criminal,
who's suffered through the throes
and agonies of negligence, abuse, of
poverty, of ill education throughout
their lives (and the statistics
between poverty, abuse, and
inadequate education and crime
have always had an obvious
correlation), is to pillage the morsels
of acceptance that anyone who feels
the world has robbed the most from
them deserves. It's no question why
Oscar Wilde said "what are called
criminals nowadays are not criminals
at all. Starvation, and not sin, is the
parent of modern crime....
[criminals] are merely what ordinary,
respectable, commonplace people
would be if they had not got enough
to eat."
IF YOU WANT TO MAKE THE SAVAGE, THE
barbaric and uncultured, simply tell
a man he cannot speak. If he cannot
speak, the scars of unfairness cannot
heal, and there will always be much
to be sorry for. When Jesus was
nailed on the cross, he didn't say
"father, burn them all", he said
forgive them because they do not
understand. Tell him he can speak,
and he can be understood. If we see
in him the potential grace of human
kind, then so too will he see it in us
and himself. It's the reason why
violence in the world has declined
since the prominence of the printing
press and since the enlightenment -
if people can say how they feel
through literature and journalism,
then we can grow empathy for
others, through reading them,
through temporarily adopting
another consciousness. We create a
cosmopolitanism where everyone
feels there place is in HUMANITY, not
in their tribes or particular islands.
AN "EYE FOR AN EYE" IS THE OPPOSITE OF
what Jesus said - Jesus said listen
and forgive – if that be decadent
prostitute or otherwise. , he did not
condemn or take away from others
what they stole from someone else.
If an eye for an eye means justice,
then I'd rather be unjust - if it means
giving up the discontent you feel
when you haven't 'hit back hard
enough', but rather donning the
apparel of forgiveness, the clothes of
understanding.
WHAT A MAN HAS DONE WILL NEVER
change, but what he IS can always
change, and if you place him
somewhere where he isn't treated
as a human being, he cannot
progress as a human being. Susan
Sontag said once, "There is simply
too much injustice in the world, and
too much remembering (of ancient
grievances Serbs, Irish) embitters. To
make peace is to forget.” I don’t
think it takes much scepticism to see
that most supporters of
disenfranchisement think precisely
the same thing – they’re barbaric,
they’re cruel, they will not
understand, how does it concern
them? But… isn’t that what we used
to say about women? Or black men
in Americas? Or Latino men and
women, of men below the age of
35? Prisoners are some of the most
unpopular people in the world. But if
we base our justification on why
someone should not have the same
right as us because “I just don’t like
them”, then we stray away from
justice, and lean towards bigotry..
The same bigotry if the 50’s, of the
20’s of the 18th century. If people are
deciding limits on someone else’s
liberty, then that's not democracy.
That's authoritarianism.
BUT THIS IS THE FINAL HURDLE. WE MUST
retire our darkest feelings of disgust,
and awaken our sense of humanity…
where – like the whirling lights of
blue and red – daylight is permitted
on all sides.
by SEBASTIAN ATKINSTALL
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HE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF
Malcolm X captured my
attention from the very
first page and kept me
till the last. The
depiction of the
Klansmen and
their brutality
towards his
family on the
first chapter
started the
book off with the
haunting memory
that affect the rest of
Malcolm’s life.
Being a
teenager, the
first handful of
chapters was
understandably the most
entertaining to
read. From
then, I drew out
the learning
processes, the
experiences,
and the
obstacles that
Malcolm
inevitably had
to overcome in
his transition
from childhood
to early
adulthood – something everybody
can relate to on their own road to
maturity. From these chapters, A
greater understanding of the
Afro-American lifestyle
in the mid-20th
century is easily
found, and a better-
informed picture of
American society
from a teenagers
perspective.
THESE CHAPTERS HAD
excitement,
suspense, and a
great deal of reality.
They followed
Malcolm's
encounters with crime and violence
and were presented with a
straightforward truth, unmarred by
exaggerations. Every word was to be
believed, every word could have
been believed, and everything
should have been believed. And I
truly believed Malcolm when he said
that he believed in The Honourable
Elijah Muhammad, the spiritual
leader of The Nation of Islam, more
than he believed in himself. From
that point on, the world was now
seen and described through the eyes
of an adult with perspective. I read
with excitement as Malcolm
depicted his every step in building
up the Nation of Islam into a
lifesaving
organization for
the black
demographic in
America. I shared
his joy when he
made the
pilgrimage to
Mecca and made
acquaintances
with world leaders and people of
importance. I believed he made the
best judgment of his life when he
reshaped his beliefs in racial status
and racial discrimination, becoming
less ruthless and more
compassionate for all races as his life
aged. As I neared the end he was in
the unimaginable position of facing
his assassination, as history retells.
Great fame coupled by his celebrity
status had caused tremendous hate
and jealousy in the organization.
THE LAST FEW CHAPTERS REALLY TAUGHT
me something about human nature.
Imagine going to sleep at night while
knowing the assassins hired to kill
you were one of your own! Then,
imagine if they were the same
faithful students you preached to get
B O O K R E V I E WC U L T U R E |
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X
Malcom X praying in a mosque in Cairo
“...The single
most
influential
literary piece
of work I
have ever
encountered.”
“We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.” - Malcom X
“Every word
was to be
believed,
every word
could have
been
believed, and
everything
should have
been
believed..”
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them back on their feet in society! It
was almost inconceivable. Malcolm
nevertheless spent his numbered
days preaching and speaking to the
Afro-American population, and
spreading black pride to every
corner of the world. He was
murdered February 21, 1965 at
three o'clock in the afternoon while
making his last speech in New York,
with his family present. As someone
who feels like I’ve grown up with
him I was heartbroken, but at the
same time relieved that he died
fighting for the rights of his own
people.
THIS HAS BEEN THE SINGLE MOST
influential literary piece of work I
have ever encountered. I never
could have guessed that one man’s
life would influence me so much,
and ultimately change the way I
perceive.
by JOSEPH YAMBASU
S E N D ~ S U B M I S S I O N S ~
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CRAPPY PHOTOS ‘ND POEMS BY SOME SEB GUY
F A L L I N G S H E E P
I saw the sheep of milk upon the
heath
that flew down below the amber-
light
and shadows far beneath,
That touched the rictus of the
morning rays
and pause not for time to
wonder
nor for time to graze
But continue ever downward
enveloped in the haze.
THESE ARE A FEW PORTRAITS
I took with my cousin last month. It was especially fun doing this because I got to wake her up at 3.00am (she promised to help earlier in the day). You can feel the
contempt in her eyes…
A M O R N I N G
The stark, serious flexing of that starlight gleam
that rolls it’s shoulders in the darkness, yawns and shivers
in the wind. Slowly now. Slowly, her face nuzzling that
Prevalent, unrestful climb of reddened indigo. That easing,
Soaring wingbeat of the sun, who’s afterglow knows
no final ceiling, no wall to break or balk it’s outstretched
arms; that wrap tenderly, wearily around her. And like
the droplets of a candle’s waxen cheek,
that dowse the wooden chest beside a cradle,
the starlight sets within the pressing, orange tide
Sets and moulds into the rising colours, and seems to
Disappear in its embrace.
8 4 1 3
9 2 4
2 6 1 9
4 7 1 6
5 7 4 1
6 8 3 5
4 6 9 3
1 2 3
3 1 6 8
9 4 5 7
3 1
2 7 6
8 1
1 2 4 6
3 7
6 4 2
5 1
8 6 9 5
6 3 5 8 7
8 4 3 7
2 1
2 8 3
5 7 1 6 4
7 2 8
1 2
5 2 4 6
5 6 7 9
S O D O K U Each row, column and 3x3 block must contain the numbers 1-9
3 2 5
8 7 2
1 9
3 6 9 2
7 4
6 2 4 8
3 4
1 5 9
5 7 3
GRADE: hard
GRADE: easy GRADE: medium
GRADE: insane
FOUR FANTASTIC
FACTS
Ketchup was
sold in the 1830s
as medicine.
Spirited Away
was created
without a script.
A professor
from Syracuse
University made
a tree that bears
40 different
types of fruit
In 1971, James
Irwin left a piece
of lava from
Devil's Lake,
Oregon on the
moon.
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