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Oct. 24th, 2016 at 3:51 PM
How Antoni van Leeuwenhoek discovered the sperm cell and a rare hiccuping disease, from "The Telegraph"
...I loved the chapter about him and his work in Paul de Kruif's "Microbe Hunters", which I first read...quite a few years ago, now ;)
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As an aside, I think the Dutch stole all the vowels from the Welsh.
(This is poetic truth, not to be mistaken for actual 'truth' truth.)
You might like The Mabinogion is a cavalcade of consonants (http://bettermyths.com/the-mabinogion-is-a-cavalcade-of-consonants/), but be warned; it's full of naughty language.