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Send one of these messages as a surefire way to make them feel stupendous

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What is heart-rate training? Why -- and how to -- train by heart rate. Cautions and caveats.

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Ess, Ess/ Eat, Eat!
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This magnificent Middle Eastern Shepherd's Slab Pie -- a real crowd-pleaser -- is a cynch to make, even if you suffer 'pie-dough-phobia'

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On this day in . . .

• 1453, the French recapture of Bordeaux brings the Hundred Years' War to a close, with the English retaining only Calais on French soil

• 1466, the Thirteen Years' War ends with the Second Treaty of Torun'. Gdansk Pomerania and Prussia as a whole are incorporated into Poland; the Teutonic Knights are allowed to rule its eastern part as Polish vassals

• 1765, the Stamp Act Congress, meeting in New York, drew up a declaration of rights and liberties

• 1781, at Yorktown, Virginia, British commander Lord Cornwallis surrendered to a Franco-American force led by George Washington and the comte de Rochambeau, paving the way for the end of the American Revolutionary War

• 1789, Chief Justice John Jay is sworn in as the first Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court

• 1812, Napoleon I of France retreats from Moscow

• 1813, the Battle of Leipzig concludes, giving Napoleon Bonaparte one of his worst defeats

• 1814, the first documented public performance of "The Star-Spangled Banner" took place at the Holliday Street Theater in Baltimore

• 1873, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, and Rutgers universities draft the first code of American football rules

• 1914, the U.S. Post Office began delivering mail with government-owned cars, as opposed to using contracted vehicles

• 1933, Germany withdraws from the League of Nations

• 1935, the League of Nations places economic sanctions on fascist Italy for its invasion of Ethiopia

• 1943, Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University

• 1960, the United States government places an embargo on Communist Cuba

• 1964, under the leadership of new Communist Party chief Leonid Brezhnev, the Kremlin moved toward patching up its grievances with Red China

• 1973, President Richard Nixon rejects an Appeals Court demand to turn over the Watergate tapes. ALSO: The Israeli military was pitched in a two-front battle against Arab forces, in the south against Egypt, and in the north against the armies of Syria, Iraq and Jordan. Subsequently, Saudi Arabia threatened a total cutoff of oil shipments to the United States unless they halted all military aid to Israel. This standoff would lead to the 1973 oil crisis

• 1977, the supersonic Concorde made its first landing in New York City

• 1987, in retaliation for Iranian attacks on ships in the Persian Gulf, the U.S. Navy disables three of Iran's offshore oil platforms. ALSO: Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 22% (Black Monday)

• 1994, 22 people were killed as a terrorist bomb shattered a bus in the heart of Tel Aviv's shopping district. The cry of "Allah is great" was heard before the bomb went off

• 2000, a government advisory panel of scientists declared that PPA (phenylpropanolamine), an ingredient used in dozens of popular over-the-counter medicines, could not be classified as safe, saying it could be the cause of several hundred hemorrhagic strokes suffered annually by people under 50

• 2005, Saddam Hussein goes on trial in Baghdad for crimes against humanity. ALSO: Hurricane Wilma becomes the most intense Atlantic hurricane on record with a minimum pressure of 882 mb

• 2006, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 12,000 mark for the first time

• 2009, the Justice Department issued a new policy memo, telling prosecutors that pot-smoking patients or their sanctioned suppliers should not be targeted for federal prosecution in states that allowed medical marijuana

• 2010, Hosam Smadi, a Jordanian practitioner of that "religion of peace" caught in an FBI sting trying to blow up a Dallas skyscraper, was sentenced to 24 years in prison after telling the court he was ashamed of his actions and renouncing al-Qaida

• 2012, Big Tex, the 52-foot statue that welcomed visitors to the Texas State Fair for 60 years, burned to the ground. Authorities said the fire apparently was caused by an electrical short in Tex's motorized boot

• 2013, a violin played by the musical conductor of the Titanic as the ship sank after hitting an iceberg in the North Atlantic in 1912 sold for more than $1.7 million at an auction in London.

• 2017, Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rossello, meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House about a month after Hurricane Maria, described the situation in the island territory as "catastrophic"; Trump rated the White House response to the disaster as a "10"

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