One day, a farmer and his son Toby were on their way to town when the father found a horseshoe.

一天，农夫和他的儿子托比在进城的路上，父亲发现了一个马蹄铁。

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"There wasn't any treasure in the place, my son, but I think you have found your life's true purpose." the father answered with a smile.

父亲笑着回答：“那地方并没有什么宝藏，我的孩子，但我想你已经找到了人生的真正目标。”

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Many people found my father to be a genius, particularly when it came to mathematical skills.

很多人认为我的父亲是一个天才，特别是当他遇到数学问题的时候。

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So Winslow's father found him a job as an assistant in the trade of making and preparing pictures for printed media.

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The study also found that the age of the father can play a role, although it is not as significant as the age of the mother.

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The coins were discovered by two amateur metal detector enthusiasts, Reg Mead and Richard Miles who began their hunt after a woman told them her father had found coins in a field some years before.

BBC: Jersey

Oher is one of 13 children of a crack addict mother and a father whose murder he found out about months after graduating from high school.

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Experiments by Andrew Gallup at Princeton University, his father Gordon Gallup and a colleague found that yawning is suppressed by a cool pack strapped to the forehead or by summer temperatures that are higher then body temperature, and that therefore the purpose of yawning may be to cool the brain by inhaling air.

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