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  2. Light as a feather, stiff as a board - Wikipedia

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    The oldest known account of levitation play comes from the diary of Samuel Pepys (1633–1703), a British naval administrator. Pepys’s account of levitation play comes from a conversation with a friend of his, Mr. Brisband, who claimed to have seen four little girls playing light as a feather, stiff as a board in Bordeaux, France.

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    Martha Bradley (fl. 1740s–1755) was a British cookery book writer.Little is known about her life, except that she published the cookery book The British Housewife (pictured) in 1756 and worked as a cook for more than 30 years in the fashionable spa town of Bath, Somerset.

  4. How to Sleep - Wikipedia

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    How to Sleep is a short comedy film written by and starring humorist Robert Benchley.Filmed and released by MGM in 1935 (as part of their "Miniatures" series), it features Benchley as a narrator as well as film subject, discussing four parts of sleep—causes, methods, avoiding sleep, and waking up.

  5. Twins pretend to sleep after hearing mom on the baby monitor

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    Judy Travis turned on her baby monitor to talk to her two girls when she heard them screaming at each other instead of sleeping -- and the moment they heard her voice, they promptly pretended to ...

  6. wikiHow - Wikipedia

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    wikiHow is an online wiki-style publication featuring informational articles and quizzes on a variety of topics. Founded in 2005 by Internet entrepreneur Jack Herrick, its aim is to create an extensive database of instructional content, using the wiki model of open collaboration to allow users to add, create, and modify content.

  7. How to sleep on a plane: Doctors and travel experts share ...

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    Bring a sleep cue object. Taylor swears by his neck pillow whereas his husband refuses to travel without noise-canceling headphones. Brown likes to wear an eye mask in case the people next to her ...

  8. Bed trick - Wikipedia

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    In Richard Strauss's 1932 opera Arabella, Zdenka/Zdenko, the daughter consigned to live as a boy because of family finances, contrives to pretend she is her sister Arabella to sleep with Matteo, with whom she is secretly in love. The bed trick can be seen in Eliza Haywood's novel Love in Excess.

  9. Sleep-learning - Wikipedia

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    Sleep-learning or sleep-teaching (also known as hypnopædia or hypnopedia) is an attempt to convey information to a sleeping person, typically by playing a sound recording to them while they sleep. Although sleep is considered an important period for memory consolidation , [ 1 ] scientific research has concluded that sleep-learning is not possible.