Who Was Who: 5000 BC - 1914 Biographical Dictionary of the Famous and Those Who Wanted to Be by Unknown
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was the first to give it a practical demonstration.
GULLIVER, a Munchausen-Doctor Cook-Peary traveler who never submitted his proofs, but who found a credulous publisher and a gullible public. Never lectured. H HAFID, Mulai, a sultan of Morocco, who succeeded in abdicating before he was abdicated. HAGAR, Miss, Abraham's wife's maid who nearly broke up a happy family. HAHNEMANN, Doctor, of Leipsig, discovered the sugar pill and called it homeopathy. HAM, second officer and engineer of the Ark. HAMED, Abdul, a retired professor of diplomacy, champion promiser, and a sick man. When a youth he began instructing the monarchs of Europe in the use of a government. One of his favorite pastimes was reading ultimatums. Fearless until a warship entered the harbor, and even then usually got rid of it with promises. Employed massacres to break the monotony of reigning. Acquired as fine a harem as ever sat on silk cushions. Some of H.'s younger subjects though he should be ostlerized (see Dr. Ostler). They gave him his harem and |
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