A Few Hundred People Turned to Bone
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Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP) is a rare bone disease that causes tendons, ligaments and muscles to ossify, forming a second skeleton. The rarity of the disease has limited research on it, but scientists are finding answers to some of the questions FOP poses.
Publication Name: The Atlantic Monthly
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 1072-7825
Year: 1998
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A memory of the nineteen-nineties
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A magician describes visiting the Round Reading at the British Museum on June 3, 1997. This was the day that Max Beerbohm had predicted that Enoch Soames would reappear in his 'Enoch Soames: A Memory of the Eighteen-Nineties.'
Publication Name: The Atlantic Monthly
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 1072-7825
Year: 1997
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The indestructible Mr. Bone
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The magician Teller describes meeting sideshow performer Mr Bone, who calls himself The Man Who Cannot Be Hanged. Bone recounted adventures as a martial arts master and covert operator that may or may not be true.
Publication Name: The Atlantic Monthly
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 1072-7825
Year: 1995
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