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History of poison has been listed as one of the History good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.

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Date	Process	Result
May 21, 2007	Good article nominee	Listed
June 8, 2007	Peer review	Reviewed
January 14, 2008	Good article reassessment	Kept
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on April 6, 2007. The text of the entry was: Did you know ...that poison, over its 6500-year history, has been used for both great progression in medicine and as a hugely popular method of assassination?
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