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when blood was added to a sick or injured person instead of draining it from their system.

• In the early 1800s, London obstetrician James Bundell worried about the number of women who died of blood loss after giving birth. He experimented with blood transfusions and made several important discoveries: First, he found that only human blood should be transfused into other humans, and not the blood from animals.

Second, he concluded that blood transfusions did not cure any illness. Third, he learned that transfusing blood into dead patients would not revive them. But with this knowledge, Blundell never understood why some transfusions were successful while others failed, often ending in death.

• Austrian pathologist Karl Landsteiner researched this subject to discover why blood transfusions would sometimes kill the recipient, while other times it would save them. In 1901 he took blood samples from one random group of people and added them to blood samples drawn from another random group. Paring them under a microscope he observed that sometimes the red cells appeared to clump together, sometimes they burst, while other times nothing happened at all. Landsteiner first thought that some blood was “sick” and other blood was “healthy” but further research showed this wasn't the case.

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, if you will, different types of sprinkles: Type A blood has certain kinds of proteins that stick to the outside of the red blood cells, while Type B blood has other kinds of proteins that also stick to the cells. If a person with Type A blood receives Type B blood, or vice-versa, in a transfusion, it triggers an immune response.

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

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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.

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Even though in debt, you need to save money. You cannot continue to live on credit. I am a big fan of any kind of auto pay or auto save.

When you set this up, you eliminate the need to make a decision every payday. “Should I save money this week or go to a movie?” “Should I save this week or get those really cute shoes that are finally on sale?!”

But if you are auto-saving, even $25 a week, you’ve eliminated that irritating decision of whether to save or not. You’re on autopilot, and that’s a nice way to roll.

And in closing ...

Finally, please accept my heartfelt congratulations on a job well done. You made it -- not to the finish line but to the starting gate!

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The decisions and choices you make in the first six months after graduation have the power to set the course of your life, for good or bad.

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Brute force is never an effective teaching tool. Most people, if told their child’s eye had been blackened not by a bully but by his English teacher because of his inability to spell, would run to the nearest happy hour full of ACLU lawyers and scream “civil rights violation! Sic 'em!” And the teacher’s defense would be embarrassingly feeble: “No, I never taught him how to spell, but I left the dictionary right there on his desk.”

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I’ve learned over the years that lots of people get hung up on the lexicon of Social Security. I will use a Social Security-related word or phrase in a column without giving it too much thought. And the next thing I know, there are emails in my inbox taking me to task for supposedly getting or saying something wrong. Here are a few examples:

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plished through a benefit formula that is skewed to give people on the lower rungs of the economic ladder a slight boost up that ladder when they retire. They don’t get higher benefits, per se. But as a percentage of what they put into the program via their premiums (I mean, taxes), they get a better deal in terms of the monthly Social Security benefit checks they get.

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financial troubles occurred; the pottery went into receivership and was taken over by the Edmund Yorke family.

“The Alhambra” is the name of the pattern, and the number “739062” shows that the pattern was registered with the British government in 1928. Although the registry date is 1928, it doesn’t necessarily mean the teapot was made in 1928: It is the date when the design was registered.

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Poppies Were Favorite Motif

Alhambra Palace inspired this design.

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We are enclosing a photo of a dessert set that has been in the family for three generations. My husband’s mother gave it to us, and she got it from her mother-in-law.

The set is ver y thin china and consists of a cake plate, six cups, saucers and dessert plates. Each piece is decorated with orange and blue flowers, trimmed in gold and marked “Germany.” It is in perfect condition and appears to be hand painted.

We have been married for 67 years and are now downsizing. We would appreciate knowing the value of our set along with its histor y, as we plan to pass it on to our children.

The Moorish Alhambra Palace in Granada, Spain, was the inspiration for the design. The name Alhambra appears to be popular with many pottery and porcelain factories from the 1800s to the present, all with different designs.

Your circa 1930 teapot would probably be worth $75 to $125.

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• On May 10, 1877, President Rutherford B. Hayes has the White House’s first telephone installed, although he rarely received phone calls. In fact, the Treasury Department possessed the only other direct phone line to the White House at that time. The White House phone number was “1.”

• On May 9, 1926, according to their claims, American polar explorer Richard E. Byrd and pilot Floyd Bennett fly over the North Pole in a triple-engine Fokker monoplane. However, the discovery in 1996 of Byrd’s diary suggests they may have turned back short of the pole because of an oil leak.

• On May 12, 1949, an early crisis of the Cold War comes to an end when the Soviet Union lifts its 11-month blockade of West Berlin. The blockade had been broken by a massive U.S.-British airlift of supplies to West Berlin’s 2 million citizens.

• On May 6, 1954, in Oxford, England, 25-year-old medical student Roger Bannister cracks track and field’s most notorious barrier: the four-minute mile. Bannister won the mile race with a time of 3:59.4.

• On May 8, 1973, in South Dakota, armed members of the American Indian Movement surrender to federal authorities, ending their 71-day siege of Wounded Knee, site of the infamous massacre of 300 Sioux by the U.S. 7th Cavalry in 1890.

• On May 11, 1988, Kim Philby, a former British intelligence officer and double agent for the Soviet Union, dies in Moscow. Philby was perhaps the most famous of a group of British government officials who spied for Russia from the 1930s to the 1950s.

Dessert set made in Germany in the early 1900s.

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Hand-painted porcelain dessert sets were very popular in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

Around this time, many similar sets decorated with poppies were made in Germany, France and Japan.

Without a manufacturer’s mark, it can be difficult to identify the maker.

Your set was made in the early 1900s and would probably be worth $225 to $375. ***

I have enclosed the mark that is on the bottom of an antique teapot I have. It is decorated with rust, blue and cream-colored flowers and trimmed in gold.

It was given to my grandmother as a wedding gift sometime in 1930. My daughter would like to have it, and I would like to provide her with more information about its maker, vintage and value.

• On May 7, 1994, Norway’s most famous painting, “The Scream” by Edvard Munch, is recovered almost three months after it was stolen from a museum in Oslo. It was recovered undamaged from a hotel about 40 miles away.

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Blood typing became common in the 1920s.

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