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The monkey bite heard round the world
By Mr. Smarty Pants, Fri., Dec. 8, 2006
Acton State Historic Site, in Cleburne, Texas' smallest state park, is also the smallest state park in the U.S., and it's the burial place of Davy Crockett's second wife.
M.T. Supermarket, the recently opened Asian grocery at Chinatown Center on North Lamar in Austin, has an "international foods" aisle.In October 1920, King Alexander I (ruled Greece 1917-1920) was bitten by his favorite monkey and died. Winston Churchill would later write that "it was a monkey bite that caused the death of 250,000 people."
"Anthimeria" is the use of a word as if it were a member of a different word class, such as using a noun as if it were a verb.
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