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if      (RandomNo < 50)  {document.write(" Captain Cook lost 41 of his 98 crew to scurvy (a lack of vitamin C) on his first voyage to the South Pacific in 1768. By 1795 the importance of eating citrus was realized, and lemon juice was issued on all British Navy ships. ");}
else if (RandomNo < 100) {document.write(" Martha Washington in the only woman whose portrait has ever appeared on a US currency note. Her portrait was on the face of the $1 silver certificate issues of 1886 and 1891, and on the back of the $1 silver certificate of 1896. Sacagewea and Susan B. Anthony are the only women represented on a US coin. Both were honored on a dollar coin. ");}
else if (RandomNo < 150) {document.write(" Vermont, admitted as the 14th state in 1791, was the first addition to the original 13 colonies. ");}
else if (RandomNo < 200) {document.write(" The Texas Rangers were the first U.S. state police force.  They were established in 1835. ");}
else if (RandomNo < 250) {document.write(" On April 12, 1938, the state of New York passed a law requiring medical tests for marriage license applicants, the first state to do so. ");}
else if (RandomNo < 300) {document.write(" Acupuncture was first used as a medical treatment in 2700 BC by Chinese emperor Shen-Nung. ");}
else if (RandomNo < 350) {document.write(" The 'Battle Hymn of the Republic', 'Yankee Doodle', 'America' and 'Hail to the Chief', 4 of America's most patriotic melodies, all were written by Europeans. ");}
else if (RandomNo < 400) {document.write(" According to the U.S. Bureau of the Census, the most common job in the United States in the 1890s was a farmer.  Today, it’s a salesman. ");}
else if (RandomNo < 450) {document.write(" Yellowstone is the world's first national park. It was dedicated in 1872. ");}
else if (RandomNo < 500) {document.write(" The Mesopotamians were the first people to keep records of lunar eclipses. The earliest records show that they started sometime around 2200 B.C. ");}
else if (RandomNo < 550) {document.write(" Roman statues were made with detachable heads, so that one head could be removed and replaced by another. ");}
else if (RandomNo < 600) {document.write(" The US federal income tax was first enacted in 1862 to support the Union's Civil War effort. It was eliminated in 1872, revived in 1894 then declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court the following year. In 1913, the 16th Amendment to the Constitution made the income tax a permanent fixture in the US tax system. ");}
else if (RandomNo < 650) {document.write(" Until 1965, driving was done on the left-hand side on roads in Sweden. The conversion to right-hand was done on a weekday at 5 p.m. All traffic stopped as people switched sides. This time and day were chosen to prevent accidents where drivers would have gotten up in the morning and been too sleepy to realize 'this' was the day of the changeover. ");}
else if (RandomNo < 700) {document.write(" Louis XVI of France was captured at Varennes in June 1791 while trying to flee his country. He was stopped at an inn when he tried to pay with a coin that carried his likeness. ");}
else if (RandomNo < 750) {document.write(" Acupuncture was first used as a medical treatment in 2700 BC by Chinese emperor Shen-Nung. ");}
else if (RandomNo < 800) {document.write(" The infamous 'Red Baron' was German World War I pilot Manfred Von Richthofen. ");}
else if (RandomNo < 850) {document.write(" The Mesopotamians were the first people to keep records of lunar eclipses. The earliest records show that they started sometime around 2200 B.C. ");}
else if (RandomNo < 900) {document.write(" The emperor of Japan is the 125th of his line, which dates back to 660 B.C. ");}
else if (RandomNo < 950) {document.write(" President George Washington created the Order of the Purple Heart in 1782. It's a decoration to recognize merit in enlisted men and non-commissioned officers. ");}
else                     {document.write(" Fourteenth century physicians didn't know what caused the plague, but they knew it was contagious so they wore an early kind of bioprotective suit which included a large beaked head piece. The beak of the head piece was filled with vinegar, sweet oils and other strong smelling compounds to counteract the stench of the dead and dying plague victims. ");}
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