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Occasionally, although increasingly rarely, I find myself agreeing with Ralph Nader's plague plague, any contagious, malignant, epidemic disease, in particular the bubonic plague and the black plague (or Black Death), both forms of the same infection.  on both your houses. The latest of these occasions was when I learned the following, from a column by Jeffrey Birnbaum Birnbaum (German: "pear tree") may refer to:
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Title Annotation:Tilting at Windmills
Author:Peters, Charles
Publication:Washington Monthly
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Sep 1, 2004
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