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From the dangers of a late-night cheese binge to that recurring nightmare you have about taking the SATs in your underwear, we’re getting to the bottom of these eight misconceptions about dreams, adapted from an episode of Misconceptions on YouTube.
1. Misconception: Eating cheese before bed can give you nightmares.
At one point in Charles Dickens s
A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge dismisses a ghostly encounter as being just as likely from the crumb of cheese he had before bed. It sounds a bit odd, but cheese has historically gotten a bad rap for its ability to conjure nightmares. It s unlikely that a little cheddar is the root of your nighttime terrors, though.
Kate Warne, America’s first female private investigator, played a crucial role in shielding Lincoln from assassins on his way to his first inauguration in 1861.
The woman who helped protect Lincoln from the men who tried to kill him in 1861
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Because no one suspected that the beguiling woman mingling in Alabama social circles was a private eye hunting a master embezzler.
The secessionists flirting and gossiping with the lovely Mrs. Cherry at Baltimore galas didn t worry about tipping off the charming Southern belle to their assassination plot.
And while a city bristling with weapons, rumors, assassins, spies and officers anxiously waited for the heavily guarded President-elect Abraham Lincoln to pass through Baltimore on the way to his 1861 inauguration - and possibly straight into a trap - they ignored the young widow accompanying her unusually tall, invalid brother in a sleeping berth headed to Washington.
Governor Bob Wise
Governor William G. Conley
Comedian Soupy Sales was born Milton Supman on Jan. 8, 1926. He s pictured here in Lunch with Soupy in 1960.
Louise McNeill Pease was born on the family farm in Pocahontas County on Jan. 9, 1911. She was West Virginia Poet Laureate.
On Jan. 9, 2014, hazardous chemicals were discovered leaking into the Elk River, contaminating the water supply for a nine-county region.
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Judge Elizabeth Virginia Hallanan, West Virginia s first federal court judge, was born in Charleston on Jan. 10, 1925.
Minnie Buckingham Harper, the first African-American woman to serve as a member of a state legislative body in the country, was appointed to fill the unexpired term of her husband, E. Howard Harper on Jan. 10, 1928.