An enormously wealthy 65-year-old man falls in love with a young woman in her twenties and is contemplating proposing. "Do you think she'd marry me if I tell her I'm 45?" he asked a friend. "Your chances are better," said the friend, "if you tell her you're 90."
In 1793, due to an outbreak of yellow fever in Philadelphia, the first quarantine in the U.S. on a city was declared when the governor of Maryland, Thomas Sim, stopped commerce from Philadelphia to Maryland.
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