Did you know he was partially deaf? So it made me want to look up Cochlear Implants (which are really cool devices that consist of a tiny microphone and a receiver implanted on the skull which transmits radio waves to the cochlea).
Then it showed a link to deafness, and of course, I had to look up Hellen Keller. She in turn is connected to a number of really interesting people (did you know that her mother sent her to Baltimore to get more information about her deafness after reading a collection of anecdotes by Charles Dickens?). She met really interested people later in life, such as Ann Sullivan (which had a really tragic childhood in Ireland and the United States).
Then, what the heck, it seems like looking up the entry to American Sign Language was important, and I learn lots of interesting facts about Home Signs, the Old French Sign language, and Scarlet fever (which, by no coincidence I'm sure, caused a number of child to become death and blind, and some became both, or DeafBlind).
Now, I really want to learn sign language. Wow, all that from an entry about Rush Limbaugh!
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There's only one sort of sign language required with Rush Limbaugh, and that's an outstretched middle finger.
That's a pretty cool line of discovery :)
-Ammo
i used to do a fair amount of work with the school for the deaf when i was an officer. it was most interesting. and all that i saw and learned was through the offices of hearing interpreters.
The wikitrap? Happens to me all the time! Terrible waste of time but you learn a lot.
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