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IT SOUNDS SCARY, BUT RICIN'S USED DAILY REMEMBER CASTOR OIL? SHAMPOO TO NECKLACES USE BEAN.(News)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
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February 4, 2004
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Byline: P-I NEWS SERVICES
WASHINGTON -- Ricin, the toxin that shut down three Senate office buildings yesterday and was sent to the White House in November, sounds like a really scary substance - a concentrate of the castor bean that is so deadly that the amount on a head of a pin could kill.
But you have already had many contacts with it in your daily lives. The same castor beans used to make ricin are used to make an oil used in lipsticks, hair conditioners and shampoo. The beans are often polished to make colorful necklaces and rosary beads.
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Innocent VI (1352-1362): Lettres Secrètes et Curiales, publiées d'après les Registres des Archives Vaticanes
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review
; Innocent VI (1352-1362): Lettres Secrtes et Curiales...Rome: cole Franaise de Rome. 2006. Pp.vi, 232.paperback.ISBN 2-7283-0769...fifth year of the pontificate of Innocent VI (1352-1362) marks a significant moment...
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Pope Innocent III and His World.
Magazine article from: Church History
; ...Robert Chazan suggests that Innocent's much noted anti-Semitic...the-road policy towards Innocent and the Albigensian crusade. In an article on Innocent's conciliatory approach...between the Emperor Henry VI and the papacy, suggests...
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Dress designs made Irene a leading lady; answers to correspondents.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England)
; ...Martin IV, Clement V, John XXII, Benedict XII, Clement VI, Innocent VI, Urban V and Gregory XI. Twelve were from Greece: St...Sixtus II, St Eusebius, St Zozimus, Theodore I, John VI, John VII and St Zachary. Six came from Syria: St Anicetus...
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Rotuli Parisienses. Supplications to the Pope from the University of Paris
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review
; ...patterns of the popes in "signing" the petitions. Innocent VI, for example, the graduate of the law school of Toulouse...petitions. Not least, therefore, during the pontificate of Innocent VI the affirming of rotuli from the University of Paris...
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Activists of Russian poetry society convicted of beating minors
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream
; ...served as the basis for the conviction. Derguzova and Lomakina pleaded innocent, and some group members strongly backed them. There were no punishments...women then spoke to journalists from the cage, insisting they were innocent. (vi/adc)
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Das Kammerregister Papst Martins IV. (Reg. Vat. 42)
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review
; ...chamber register did not surface until the pontificate of Innocent VI (1352-62). The camera, first mentioned in 971...then operated out of new quarters at the Vatican under Innocent LH and remained there into the pontificate of Nicholas...
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Cola di Rienzi proclaims himself 'tribune' of Rome.(Freeze Frame: May 20th, 1347)
Magazine article from: History Today
; ...in Rome. He proclaimed the need for the pope, Clement VI, to reinvigorate the city's spiritual life by proclaiming...enjoy rehabilitation; at the prompting of Petrarch, Pope Innocent VI halted proceedings against Rienzi. He was reappointed...
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Blown away by Avignon
Newspaper article from: Sunday Star-Times
; ...foundation for the Pope's Palace (home to the Avignon Popes including Clement V, John XXII, Benedict XII, Clement VI, Innocent VI, Urban V and Grexory XI) and the Cathedral of Notre-Dame des Doms, where few other tourists ventured. The adjoining...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...Frederick Louis MacNeice, poet and broadcaster, 1907; John Cleveland (Jesse) Owens, athlete, 1913. Deaths: Pope Innocent VI, 1362; Francois Couperin ("Le Grand"), composer, 1733; Jean-Philippe Rameau, composer, 1764; Dr Peter...
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Gunman kills 2 in Capitol Shootings trigger panic
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; ...Clinton called House Speaker Newt Gingrich to express condolences. Gingrich (R-Ga.) praised the officers who were killed and who apprehended the gunman, saying "if not for their quick and courageous action, more than just one innocent vi
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