Misc: In 1948 Stevie ---------- , rocker (Fleetwood Mac), born.?

Questions

In medieval -----, it was not unusual for a mother to breast-feed a child until the child was seven years old.?

In olden days, barbers also performed as ---------. Blood-letting, a remedy of the time believed to cure diseases, was one of their main tasks. The red-and-white striped barber pole originally symbolized a bleeding arm swathed in bandages.?

In sixteenth- and seventeenth-century ------, one took revenge against one's enemies by placing finely chopped tiger whiskers in their food. The whisker barbs would get caught in the victim's digestive tract and cause sores and infections.?

In the Declaration of Independence as first written by Thomas Jefferson, there was a clause abolishing -------. Because of popular pressure, however, Jefferson deleted the clause.?

During the Spanish American War in 1898, there were 45 stars on the -------------.?