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On the Shetland island of Foula around 1850, local inhabitants refused to let a clergyman vaccinator land his boat because of communal rumours that he had come to castrate the men.
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In the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, Minneapolis crowds insisted on attending football games in the teeth of public health prohibitions, and the St Paul bowling club insisted on resuming meetings at the height of the infection - a case that illuminates the less beneficial side of the social capital generated by twentieth-century American bowling clubs.
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