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Keith Richards RIP Update – Keith Quits Smoking?

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Cigarette “smoke free” is the operative word.

Page Six – Keith Richards finally has his smoking habit “Under His Thumb.”

The Rolling Stones guitarist, whose body was already a marvel of human endurance, has finally quit smoking. Richards, 76, told Q104.3 New York’s Jim Kerr that he’s been cigarette-free since October.

While the length and breadth of Richards’ toxicology has been well-documented, he seems to have finally aged into a proper British pensioner: He said at the end of 2018 that he’d pretty much “pulled the plug” on drinking…

Atomic Clock??

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You know those lead aprons that the Dentist uses….?

Vaseline and Uranium Glass (ca. 1930s)

Uranium was first used to color glass in the 1830s and it has continued to be used for this purpose with the exception of a fifteen year (or so) period beginning in World War II.  Prior to World War II, natural uranium was used, but when Vaseline glass production resumed in 1959, the switch was made to depleted uranium (DU). All of the items shown here contain natural uranium except the tube on the right which contains depleted uranium. At present (2004), a few companies in the U.S. are still making Vaseline glass (e.g., Boyd Crystal Art Glass, Mosser, Summit Glass and Fenton Glass), but it is exclusively of the decorative variety. No dinnerware is being made.