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  2. Legend of the Mistletoe Bough - Wikipedia

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    A new bride, playing a game of hide-and-seek or trying to get away from the crowd during her wedding breakfast, hides in a chest in an attic and is unable to escape. She is not discovered by her family and friends, and suffocates or dies of thirst. The body is found many years later in the locked chest as a skeleton in a wedding dress.

  3. Mediastinal shift - Wikipedia

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    Chest x-ray of infant showing CPAM in the left lung causing a mediastinal shift towards the right. The cysts appear as bubbles in the left lung. Congenital pulmonary airway malformation (CPAM) is a rare disease in which the lung airways develop abnormally in the fetus.

  4. List of locations in Pirates of the Caribbean - Wikipedia

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    Norrington escapes with the chest, and gives it to Cutler Beckett in exchange for a full pardon. It is not revealed in the film why Davy Jones buried the Chest on Isla Cruces. However, the film's writers, Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio , imply in the Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest DVD audio commentary , that Jones chose it because it ...

  5. Pandora's box - Wikipedia

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    Lawrence Alma-Tadema's water-colour of an ambivalent Pandora, 1881 A pithos from Crete, c. 675 BC. Louvre. Pandora's box is an artefact in Greek mythology connected with the myth of Pandora in Hesiod's c. 700 B.C. poem Works and Days. [1]

  6. List of Emergency! episodes - Wikipedia

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    The firefighters assist a man with chest pains, and a young man who gets trapped trying to help him, while stuck on a ferris wheel. Roy and John are scheduled to appear on TV to discuss fire prevention, then help a child who swallowed parathion , and Dr. Brackett speaks with both parents about how their son got into the illegal pesticide, while ...

  7. Tracheobronchial injury - Wikipedia

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    Air is trapped in the chest cavity outside the lungs (pneumothorax) in about 70% of TBI. [4] [10] Especially strong evidence that TBI has occurred is failure of a pneumothorax to resolve even when a chest tube is placed to rid the chest cavity of the air; it shows that air is continually leaking into the chest cavity from the site of the tear. [11]

  8. Thoracentesis - Wikipedia

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    Thoracentesis / ˌ θ ɔː r ə s ɪ n ˈ t iː s ɪ s /, also known as thoracocentesis (from Greek θώραξ (thōrax, GEN thōrakos) 'chest, thorax' and κέντησις (kentēsis) 'pricking, puncture'), pleural tap, needle thoracostomy, or needle decompression (often used term), is an invasive medical procedure to remove fluid or air from the pleural space for diagnostic or therapeutic ...

  9. Ripley's Believe It or Not! (1982 TV series) - Wikipedia

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    British eccentric, Henry Cope, was so obsessed with green that he would eat nothing but green fruits and vegetables; In England, in the 18th century, snails were boiled in tea water as a remedy for chest congestion; In Brazil, a rhinoceros was nominated for public office and won more votes than any other candidate. February 3, 1985 ()