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Tobacco is the only excuse for Columbus's misadventure in discovering America.

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Sigmund Freud
Age: 83 †
Born: 1856
Born: May 6
Died: 1939
Died: September 23
Essayist
Neurologist
Philosopher
Psychiatrist
Psychoanalyst
Psychologist
Freiberg
Sigismund Schlomo Freud
Freud
Excuse
Travel
America
Home
Misadventure
Columbus
Tobacco
Discovering

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