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2. Lead poisoning - Wikipedia

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   Lead was added to cheap wine illegally in the 18th and early 19th centuries as a sweetener. [281] The composer Beethoven, a heavy wine drinker, had elevated lead levels (as later detected in his hair) possibly due to this; lead poisoning is a contender as a factor to his hearing loss and death (cause of which is still controversial). [281] [282 ...

3. Prosthesis - Wikipedia

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   In medicine, a prosthesis (pl.: prostheses; from Ancient Greek: πρόσθεσις, romanized: prósthesis, lit. 'addition, application, attachment'), [1] or a prosthetic implant, [2] [3] is an artificial device that replaces a missing body part, which may be lost through physical trauma, disease, or a condition present at birth (congenital disorder).

4. Culture of the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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   Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1891) offers a tragic critique of Victorian society’s treatment of women, sexuality, and class, while Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) examines themes of aestheticism, morality, and vanity in a Gothic narrative where the protagonist’s portrait ages as his soul corrupts.

5. History of cannabis in Italy - Wikipedia

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   Images depicting (A) a cannabis plant illustration from a 14th-century medical treatise, kept at the Biblioteca Casanatense in Rome; (B) the remains of an open-air tank previously used for the retting of hemp stalks in Cercenasco, Piedmont; (C) a museum room dedicated to traditional hemp-processing tools in Lazio; (D) an 18th-century silk-embroidered hemp curtain from Tuscany; (E) the Cave of ...