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They may seem obvious and you may think there is justification in engaging in this behavior. But there will be consequences. Guaranteed

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There are many other factors to consider besides mere weight loss

Ess, Ess/ Eat, Eat!
The Kosher Gourmet
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How to make seasonal, sippable mulled beverages at home --- with wine as the canvas and spices, the paint

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On this day in . . .

• 1774, the first Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia

• 1775, King George III goes before Parliament to declare the American colonies in rebellion, and authorized a military response to quell the American Revolution

• 1776, Benjamin Franklin departs from America for France on a mission to seek French support for the American Revolution

• 1795, the French Directory, a five-man revolutionary government, is created

• 1825, the Erie Canal opens --- passage from Albany, New York to Lake Erie.

• 1861, the Pony Express officially ceased operations

• 1881, the Gunfight near the O.K. Corral takes place at Tombstone, Arizona, as Wyatt Earp, his two brothers and "Doc" Holliday confronted Ike Clanton's gang. Three members of Clanton's group were killed; Earp's brothers and Holliday were wounded

• 1936, the first electric generator at Hoover Dam went into full operation

• 1947, the Maharaja of Kashmir agrees to allow his kingdom to join India

• 1951, boxer Joe Louis comes out of retirement to fight Rocky Marciano. However, Marciano would win the fight in eight rounds

• 1955, after the last Allied troops have left the country and following the provisions of the Austrian Independence Treaty, Austria declares its permanent neutrality.

• 1958, Pan American Airways makes the first commercial flight of the Boeing 707 from New York to Paris

• 1967, the Shah of Iran crowned himself and his queen after 26 years on the Peacock Throne

• 1972, national security adviser Henry Kissinger declared, "Peace is at hand" in Vietnam

• 1977, the last natural case of smallpox was discovered in Merca district, Somalia. The WHO and the CDC consider this date the anniversary of the eradication of smallpox, the most spectacular success of vaccination

• 1979, South Korean President Park Chung-hee was shot to death by the head of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency, Kim Jae-kyu

• 1984, "Baby Fae" receives a heart transplant from a baboon

• 1994, Jordan and Israel sign a peace treaty. ALSO: Announcement that Andrew Wiles correctly proved Fermat's last theorem

• 2000, the New York Yankees became the first team in more than a quarter-century to win three straight World Series championships, beating the New York Mets 4-2 in Game 5 of their "Subway Series"

• 2001, President George W. Bush signed the USA PATRIOT Act, giving authorities unprecedented ability to search, seize, detain or eavesdrop in their pursuit of possible terrorists

• 2002, the Moscow theater siege ends when approximately 50 Chechen rebels, practitioners of that "religion of peace", and 129 of the 800-plus captives dead after Russian Spetsnaz storm a theater building in Moscow, which had been occupied by the rebels during a musical performance three days earlier

• 2004, Israel's parliament approved Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan for withdrawing from the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank. ALSO: A U.N. investigation into Iraq's oil-for-food program reportedly turned up names of several prominent politicians in France, Russia and elsewhere said to have received illegal Iraqi oil from Saddam Hussein

• 2005, a 20-year-old practitioner of that "religion of peace" blew himself up in an open-air market in Hadera, killing five Israelis. Seconds before, he paised Allah. ALSO: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ignited international outrage when he said Israel should be wiped off the map

• 2006, President Bush signed a measure authorizing 700 miles of new fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border

• 2010, Saddam Hussein's foreign minister, Tariq Aziz, was sentenced to death for persecuting members of Shiite religious parties under the former regime. (The sentence has yet to be carried out.) ALSO: Iran began loading fuel into the core of its first nuclear power plant

• 2013 police in Phoenix said Michael Guzzo, 56, angered by barking dogs in his townhouse complex, shot and killed four members of a family and two of their dogs, fired shots at the home of another family, then killed himself

• 2017, President Donald Trump declared opioid abuse a national public health emergency and announced new steps to combat what he described as the worst drug crisis in U.S. history. ALSO: At the request of the FBI and CIA, the president blocked the release of hundreds of records on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy while allowing 2,800 other files to come out

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