Early explorers rubbed cocaine in their eyes to kill the pain of it.

And their hand got contaminated with the outside of the mask, and then they rubbed their nose. Bingo! They got SARS.

The Pope s call for religious freedom around the world, including in the socialist countries, rubbed the atheistic Soviets and Orthodox Russians the wrong way.

She had a little sensor at the end of her prosthesis that then she rubbed over different surfaces, and she could feel different textures of sandpaper, different grits, ribbon cable, as it pushed on her reinnervated hand skin.

The Poles should ask themselves the following question Would, Poland s traditional security concern, Russia, be happy or sad if the Polish government had really carried out its threat and used its veto to block the Brussels agreement? The answer is clear of course, the Russians would have rubbed their hands in jubilation and secretly celebrated the twin brothers at the head of the Polish state.

A nine country Saudi led coalition, which includes Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, and Jordan, is already carrying out airstrikes against the Iran backed Houthi rebels in Yemen an effort that Iran s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei recently declared will end with the Saudis noses being rubbed to the soil. Yet Egypt s president, General Abdel Fattah el Sisi, has indicated that the coalition s mandate may be extended beyond Yemen.