1287 -- Zuider Zee seawall collapses with loss of 50,000 lives. Some claim this was a taste of God's wrath, for having too many fingers, in too many dykes.
1995 -- AIDS patient Jeff Getty receives baboon bone marrow transplant. With a strange Darwinian twist, the "religious right" goes absolutely apeshit.
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