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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
pellagra .
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It was the beginning of Jim Crow and separate but equal bullshit in the old honeysuckle-smellin', pelagra-riddled Deep South, honeychile.
"Classical" American Music The Daily Growler 2006
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He suffered from malnutrition– pelagra and beri-beri, dehydration, heat stoke, hepatitis, malaria, various fungus infections, typhoid, cholera, intestinal parasites…and succumbed during 1977 to emphysema caused by nearly five years of breathing cordite fumes.
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(Hint: Before you answer, check on the scientific consensus of what caused puerperal fever and pelagra, and what scientific consensus had to say about continental drift.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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