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  2. Salamander letter - Wikipedia

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    Palmyra October 23d 1830 Dear Sir Your letter of yesterday is received & I hasten to answer as fully as I can—Joseph Smith Jr first come to my notice in the year 1824 in the summer of that year I contracted with his father to build a fence on my property in the corse [] of that work I approach Joseph & ask how it is in a half day you put up what requires your father & 2 brothers a full day ...

  3. Missing dollar riddle - Wikipedia

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    As the guests are not aware of the total of the revised bill, the bellhop decides to just give each guest $1 back and keep $2 as a tip for himself, and proceeds to do so. As each guest got $1 back, each guest only paid $9, bringing the total paid to $27. The bellhop kept $2, which when added to the $27, comes to $29.

  4. Perverse incentive - Wikipedia

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    The Vietnamese rat catchers would capture rats, sever their tails, then release them back into the sewers so that they could produce more rats. [ 8 ] Experiencing an issue with feral pigs , the U.S. Army post of Fort Benning (now named Fort Moore) in Georgia offered hunters a $40-bounty for every pig tail turned in. [ 9 ] Over the course of the ...

  5. Someone Owe You Money? How To Get It Back Without ... - AOL

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    You lent money to a friend or family member and they haven’t paid you back. Since you thought this was a short-term arrangement — and definitely not a gift — you feel like it’s time to ask ...

  6. List of Latin phrases (S) - Wikipedia

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    sic et non: thus and not: More simply, "yes and no". sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc: we gladly feast on those who would subdue us: Mock-Latin motto of The Addams Family. sic infit: so it begins: sic itur ad astra: thus you shall go to the stars: From Virgil, Aeneid book IX, line 641. Possibly the source of the ad astra phrases.

  7. List of Latin phrases (full) - Wikipedia

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    Spoken aloud in some British public (paid) schools by pupils to warn each other of impending authority. cave canem: Beware of the dog: Earliest written example is in the Satyricon of Petronius, circa 1st century C.E. caveat emptor: let the buyer beware: The purchaser is responsible for checking whether the goods suit his need.

  8. 'Someone's got to pay': This restaurant group chairman ... - AOL

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    He argued restaurant operators “don’t have the margin for that.”

  9. Dane-geld (poem) - Wikipedia

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    The raids continued; and in 991, Æthelred paid the Danes in silver to stop raiding and to go away. The Danes thought this an excellent idea – and returned year after year to demand more. In Kipling's words: "if once you have paid him the Dane-geld, you never get rid of the Dane".