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remark I think the movie "THe towering Inferno" said you could pee into a hankie and breathe though it to get out of a burniing building. Urine.... The Handy Multiple Purpose Liquid.
In 1849 San Francisco, the price of housing around the bay skyrocketed as thousands of gold seekers descended on SF on their way to the Sierra Foothills. A one-room shack rented for $800 a month, while a piece of property that cost $25,000 the previous year brought $300,000. Bubonic plague...