The 42-year-old elephant had a huge abscess near his eye that no one ever tried to remove.

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By the 1980s, when the Getty Museum began to hoover up old private collections including one belonging to Sam Wagstaff, a legendary collector with an original eye and a personal fortune collectors and curators all had to know exactly who was who, and who had changed the medium.

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New York claimed the 38-year-old Hamrlik off waivers from the Washington Capitals on Wednesday, one day after Staal was struck in the eye by a deflected puck in the third period of the Rangers' 4-2 win over Philadelphia.

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No one blinked at eye-witness accounts in the press, nor at the arrest of the old man by the police for being a dangerous skin changer.

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