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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
"They also lit bonfires to drive off the “bad air”."

That's where you get the fascinating medical term: "malaria" which literally means: bad air (mal = bad, aria = air).

Turns out, you get Mal-Aria from mosquitoes instead of bad air, unlike airborne diseases. ...but hey, mosquitoes do fly in the...air!

31 posted on 07/22/2014 8:02:59 PM PDT by Southack (The one thing preppers need from the 1st World? http://tinyurl.com/ktfwljc .)
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To: Southack

It’s an ill wind that blows no good...


46 posted on 07/23/2014 6:22:28 AM PDT by null and void (If Bill Clinton was the first black president, why isn't Barack Obama the first woman president?)
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