Word: prang
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...HUPD observed an individual yelling in front of 64 Louis Prang St. in Boston that there was a fire in the building. The officers noticed smoke coming from the second floor of the building and the Boston Police Department (BPD) and Boston Fire Department were called in to extinguish the fire...
Americans entered into this pattern of yuletide dissimilitude largely through the effort of a Prussian-born engraver named Louis Prang. Often dubbed the "father of the American Christmas card," Prang started manufacturing cards for the American market in 1875. The practice of exchanging greeting cards with holiday newsletters during Christmas time quickly became popular, as it remains so to this day. While as early as the 1840s some Americans were already sending out cards, the custom grew greatly with Prang’s efforts...
...argue that e-cards are an insensitive way to tell people about something as grave and personal as HIV and can be abused by pranksters wanting to play jokes. "What if you're vulnerable emotionally, and you get a surprise [HIV] e-mail?" asks West Hollywood city councilman Jeffrey Prang. "Maybe the computer at your office or home isn't secure." Still, compared with the risks of ignorance, those might be chances worth taking...