In the 1st-century Mediterranean world, extending _________ was one of many methods used to divert the ever-present threat of the evil eye. In Greek, the gesture was known as the katapugon. In Latin, it was called the digitus impudicus. The first documented appearance of __________in the United States was in 1886 when Old Hoss Radbourn, a baseball pitcher for the Boston Beaneaters, was photographed giving it to a member of the rival New York Giants.
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