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• Austrian pathologist Karl Landsteiner researched why blood transfusions would sometimes kill the recipient, and other times would save them. In 1901 he took blood samples from various people and added them to blood samples drawn from other people. Sometimes the red cells clumped up, sometimes they burst, and sometimes nothing happened. Landsteiner first thought that some blood was “sick” and other blood was “healthy” but further research showed that there were different types of blood, which he labeled type A, type B, and type C. He then studied the different blood types, laying the groundwork for much that was to come.

• A red blood cell is shaped like a flattened donut without the hole. A protein inside the red blood cell called hemoglobin collects oxygen in the lungs, delivers it to the body’s cells, and then carries carbon dioxide away, to be exhaled through the lungs. But there are different types of red blood cells, determined by different types of proteins that adhere to the outer surface of the flattened donut, like different types of sprinkles: Type A blood has a certain kind of proteins that stick to the outside of the red blood cells, and Type B blood has a different kind of proteins sticking to the cells. If a person with Type A blood receives Type B blood in a transfusion, or vice-versa, it triggers an immune response.

• Landsteiner thought Type C blood had a third kind of protein sticking to the red blood cells, but later found it has no proteins sticking to it at all—it’s a flattened donut without any sprinkles.

Then he found a fourth kind of blood, which had both Type A protein and Type B protein adhering to it. He called this Type AB blood. Landsteiner realized he needed to re-name his Type C blood in order to indicate that this type of blood has no proteins sticking to it at all. He re-named it Type O. ...continued

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BLOOD TRANSFUSIONS (cont.)

• Since Type O blood has no proteins, it can be given to people of all blood types without triggering an immune response, since it’s the proteins that act as the allergen. Type O blood is called the “universal donor.” People with Type AB blood do not suffer ill effects when they receive Type A blood, or Type B blood, or Type O blood, and they are known as “universal receivers.”

• Landsteiner was studying the blood of rhesus monkeys when he found that some of them had another type of protein adhering to their red blood cells, while others did not. He then found that humans also either did, or did not, have that identical protein. He called this new protein “the Rh factor” after “rhesus.”

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• People who are Rh positive cannot receive blood from donors who have Rh negative blood, and the other way around as well. In fact, women who were Rh negative often had trouble when they were pregnant with Rh positive babies until it was discovered that an injection of a blood product called Rh immune globulin would prevent problems. The discovery of the Rh factor brought the number of blood types to eight.

• The most common blood type in humans is Opositive (37.4%) and the rarest blood type is AB-negative (0.6%).

• Landsteiner also discovered that he could find out a person’s blood type from a single drop of dried blood, laying the groundwork for forensic science. Later it was found that blood types are inherited from parents in predictable patterns, leading to the ability to find out who the father of a child was likely to be. Landsteiner won the Nobel Prize for his work.

• Dr. Reuben Ottenberg at Mount Sinai Hospital discovered how to easily cross match a patient’s blood type to the blood type of the blood donor.

Blood typing became common in the 1920s. ...cont'd

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• Why are there four different blood types? It’s because of genetic mutation and evolution. Type A blood is the most ancient, and all humanoids had Type A blood as the species began to evolve.

Around 3.5 million years ago, Type B blood was a genetic mutation, followed a million years later

by Type O. The reason these mutations flourished and were passed down through successive generations has to do with disease resistance.

• Cells infected with malaria don’t stick well to Type O red blood cells, so people who have Type O blood are less affected by malaria and have better odds of surviving in order to pass on their blood type to their children. Similarly, people with Type AB blood are more resistant to cholera.

Gradually entire populations where cholera was common began to have largely Type AB blood, while people who lived in malaria-prone areas had mainly Type O blood.

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• Plasma is the amber liquid component of blood that transports red blood cells. Plasma can be easily freeze-dried, shipped long distances, stored for long periods at room temperature, and reconstituted with sterile water. Plasma can be transfused into any human regardless of their blood type. Red blood cells must be handled gently and kept either refrigerated or frozen. Therefore plasma is commonly used for transfusions involving cases of trauma, hemophilia, and burns, while whole blood is transfused only in cases of excessive blood loss.

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• On May 18, 1593, an arrest warrant is issued for Christopher Marlowe after fellow writer Thomas Kyd accuses him of heresy. Kyd had been arrested because of heretical documents found in his room, but he claimed they belonged to Marlowe, his former roommate.

• On May 16, 1849, the New York City Board of Health finally establishes a hospital to deal with a cholera epidemic that would kill more than 5,000 people. The city was ripe for an epidemic because of poor health conditions and its attraction for immigrants from around the world.

• On May 17, 1885, the Apache chief Geronimo again breaks out of an Arizona reservation, fleeing with 42 men and 92 women and children, and sparking panic among Arizona settlers.

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• On May 15, 1941, the turbojet-propelled Gloster-Whittle E 28/39 aircraft flies over Cranwell, England, in the first test of an Allied aircraft using jet propulsion. It reached a top speed of 370 mph at 25,000 feet.

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• During all of this, Charles Ponzi still had not figured out a way to actually monetize the International Reply Coupons in order to turn a profit. He continued to pay the old investors out of the funds coming in from the new investors. Meanwhile he bought himself mansions, cars, and other luxuries of the high life. Then he bought a pasta company and a wine company, hoping to turn enough of a profit to get him out of the hole he was digging for himself.

• Still, suspicious investigative reporters and state officials started looking into the matter. One of those investigators revealed that Ponzi was not investing his own money in his own company. Somebody else calculated that in order to pay off all of his investors, Ponzi would have to monetize approximately 160 million IRCs, when there were only 27,000 in circulation. The District Attorney ordered an audit.

A newspaper article revealed that whereas Ponzi claimed he was $7 in the black, he was actually $7 million in the red.

• There was a run on Ponzi’s company. The Bank Commissioner immediately seized the Hanover Trust Bank, squashing Ponzi’s last-ditch efforts to cover all his debt using bank funds. Ponzi was ruined. He surrendered to federal authorities.

• Five other banks were ruined because of Ponzi’s scheme. Investors received about 30 cents on the dollar. All in all, about $20 million was lost, worth over $225 million today. Charles Ponzi spent less than four years in prison on federal charges, after which he was re-tried on state charges and spent another 7 years behind bars. He was deported upon his release in 1934, and died in poverty in Brazil in 1949 at the age of 66. Today any such impossible financial scheme is called a Ponzi scheme.

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• In 1919, Charles Ponzi decided this would be a good way to turn a profit: buy IRCs low, sell high. Explaining this to friends, he received small investments, and doubled those investments in 90 days. Word spread.

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• In 1906, the Universal Postal Union invented the International Reply Coupon, or IRC. This allowed someone in one country to pay for return postage from a different country, regardless of the difference in prices in postage. If it cost 3 cents to send a first class letter in Italy, but the U.S. charged 5 cents to return an identical letter to Italy, the IRC covered the cost.

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• When a Boston financial writer wrote an article stating that Ponzi’s scheme was impossible, Ponzi sued for libel and won a $500,000 settlement, squashing further attempts to expose him. When another newspaper wrote a favorable article about Ponzi’s ability to guarantee a 50% return on investment after only 45 days, the article appeared next to a local bank’s ad promising a 5% return annually. Crowds of people thronged to Ponzi’s office to invest.

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• When certain species of trees are damaged, they extrude a sticky yellow sap called resin to protect and seal the wound. When exposed to wind and rain, most resin breaks down over time, flaking off the tree and turning to dust. But if that resin is subjected to the right conditions such as being covered by water and buried by sediments in a bog or lagoon, it becomes fossilized over time.

Fossilized resin is called amber.

• Amber is a gem material, but it is not a gemstone.

Gemstones are minerals; other items such as coral and pearls are gem materials.

• Although amber is found all over the world, the largest concentrations of amber are found in the Baltic regions, formed by the ancient Palaeogene and Cretaceous forests that stood in what is now Northern Europe 40 to 90 million years ago.

However, amber has been found dating back to 320 million years.

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• Around 500 B.C. a Greek philosopher found that when amber is rubbed vigorously with a cloth, it will cause a spark of static electricity, and the static electricity would also attract small items such as feathers, hairs, and dust. The Greek word for amber is “elektron,” possibly from a Phoenician word meaning “shining light,” and this yielded the words electron, electric, and electricity.

• The words “amber” and “ambergris” have the same root. “Ambergris” means “grey amber” and is the waxy whale secretion used in the manufacture of perfumes. Amber and ambergris are both typically found washed up on the shore of the sea.

• Ancient Egyptians tombs dating back to 3200 B.C. have contained amber jewelry, showing that trade routes existed to the Baltic regions some 1500 miles away. ...continued

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More than half of the inclusions found Answer: trapped inside pieces of amber are different speA VERY LARGE NUMBER cies of long-extinct flies. Other things discov• Edward Kasner was a mathematician. In 1938 ered in amber include frogs, lizards, geckos, he was asked to come up with a name for a asvery welllarge as snake skins, feathers, and hairs number: the bird numeral one, followed from various creatures that brushed against the by a hundred zeros. He asked his two young sticky sap.what Overname a thousand extinct species of nephews they would suggest. insects have been identified as a result • Nine-year-old Milton suggested aof amber. name One was aAfossilized feather from a out discovery of the funnies. cartoon strip character theropod dinosaur. named Barney was very popular. Milton chose Barney’s last name number.

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