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Wardian cases allowed the cinchona tree to be shipped from South America to India and Sri Lanka. From its bark came quinine, which helped ward off malaria.

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Tourists from Italy arrive on sightseeing buses each day, they marvel at foods they haven’t seen since their grandmothers made them.

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His friends would come by for a slice of pizza and called the restaurant “Mario’s”.

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If parents wanted to visit they had to get approval in advance. Relatives who turned up without notice were turned away.

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It was common to pass out from exhaustion. Often we had to help carry unconscious trainees back to the dorms.

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Could you offer some words of encouragement to other patients who are still undergoing treatment?

I think we must pull through. We have family and friends. This disease does not mean inevitable death. I have confidence in our medical team and their skills. I believe they will be able to save us.

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Materials were hard to come by in Paris during the German occupation.

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To find out if you fall for the gambler’s fallacy, imagine you are tossing a coin and you get the following sequence: Heads, Heads, Tails, Tails, Tails, Tails, Tails, Tails, Tails, Tails, Tails, Tails. What’s the chance you will now get a heads?

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She says she was never good at sport at school and dropped out of university when she started having children.

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Edwina, from Northamptonshire, threw herself into the sport and found endurance events were her forte. (forte means a thing at which someone excels）