But when sustained heat waves hit a region, the other health ramifications can be serious, including sunstroke and even major organ damage due to heat. The Chicago heat wave in the summer of 1995 killed an estimated 692 people and sent at least 3,300 people to the emergency room.
Lunatic fringe. (Redirected from Lunatic Fringe) Lunatic fringe is a term used to characterize members of a political or social movement as extremists with eccentric or fanatical views. The term was popularized by Theodore Roosevelt, who wrote in 1913 that, Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe..
The term lunatic derives from the Latin lunaticus which originally referred mainly to epilepsy and  madness  as diseases caused by the Moon.By the fourth and fifth centuries astrologers began to commonly use the term to refer to neurological and psychiatric diseases.he term lunatic was also used by supporters of John Harrison and his marine chronometer method of determining longitude to refer to proponents of the Method of Lunar Distances, advanced by Astronomer Royal Nevil Maskelyne.