Herod Antipas was exiled to Gaul following an insurrection against him led by his former father-in-law- the father of his first wife who he divorced to marry his sister-in-law and niece, Herodias. Because her father and brother had been friends to his family the Emperor Caligula gave Herodias permission to remain in Israel or in Rome and retain her personal wealth, but she chose to accompany her husband/uncle/brother-in-law into Gallic exile.
The human gallbladder (also gall bladder, biliary vesicle or cholecyst), is a small organ where bile is stored and concentrated before it is released into the small intestine. Humans can live without a gallbladder. The surgical removal of the gallbladder is called a cholecystectomy.
The average human bladder holds between 300ml and 600ml of urine. That’s similar to a can of fizzy drink or a pint of milk. It stays busy, since the average person passes approx. 1.5 litres to 2 litres of urine in 24 hours.
Women’s urethras (the tubes that take urine from the bladder to the outside of the body) are much shorter than men’s due to the differences in genitalia. This means that women are more at risk of bladder infections than men as bacteria from outside the body can get into the bladder more easily.
Organic milk is milk where the farm does not use antibiotics to fight infections in cows or hormones to stimulate more milk production.
Organic milk lasts longer than non-organic milk because of the preservation process, not because the milk is organic. The preservation process is different because organic milk often has to travel farther to reach store shelves since it is not produced throughout the country.
UHT (Ultra-High Temperature) processing heats the organic milk to 280°F for 2-4 seconds and kills all bacteria, However, pasteurization heats non-organic milk to either 145°F for 30 minutes (“low temp, long time”) or to 160°F for 15 seconds (“high temp, short time”).
Robert Cohen, author of Milk - The Deadly Poison and the notmilk website, got really angry (some might say batshit insane) when he took a shower in his gym and realized the label on the liquid soap stated it contained YOGUTY
Along with famous gay activist and City Supervisor Harvey Milk, San Francisco Mayor George Moscone was assassinated by recently-resigned City Supervisor Dan White, who was convicted only of manslaughter rather than murder due to the successful use of the “Twinkie Defense” (mental impairment due to a high-sugar diet resulting from depression). Moscone’s death made City Council President Dianne Feinstein the new Mayor.
Cecil’s column on that subject
In play: . In 2005, Dianne Feinstein’s net worth was estimate to be between $43 million and $99 million. Her 347-page financial-disclosure statement characterized by the San Francisco Chronicle as “nearly the size of a phone book” – draws clear lines between her assets and those of her husband, investment banker Richard C. Blum, with many of her assets in blind trusts
Katz v. United States, 389 U.S. 347 (1967) was a case involving government eavesdropping on a bookie’s phone call through electronic means. Katz claimed it was a violation of the 4th amendment as the “seized” information without a warrant. The government claimed non-tangible items did not fall under the 4th amendment. Katz won 7-1 because a closed phone booth gives an expectation of privacy and perhaps more important, electronic intrusions into a private area are the same as a physical one under the 4th amendment.
The 2nd amendment text reads as follows:
A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed.
This is quoted from gpo.gov, because other sources sometimes have an errant comma in the text.
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GPO-CONAN-1992/pdf/GPO-CONAN-1992-10-3.pdf
Because the text of Roe v. Wade doesn’t specifically mention that only doctors can perform abortions, the anti-abortion crowd says that “by law, anyone can perform an abortion.”
They also state that Roe v. Wade states the “unborn” are not living, yet the text specifically states it is not the court’s purpose to decide the complicated issue of when life begins.
Jane Roe and Henry Wade are the names in the case Roe v Wade, but Jane Roe is an alias. Her real name is Norma McCorvey. The case came to light in Dallas, Texas in June 1969 when McCorvey discovered she was pregnant and her friends advised her to assert that she had been raped.
One of the many jokes told about the limited intellect of former Vice President Dan Quayle was that he thought Roe versus Wade was a debate about how to cross a river.
In the 1988 Presidential election, George HW Bush and Dan Quayle defeated Michael Dukakis and Lloyd Bentsen.
In the 1992 Presidential election, Bill Clinton and Al Gore defeated George HW Bush and Dan Quayle.
Channeling his inner Yogi Berra, Quayle once said, “If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.”
More Quayleisms:
“We are ready for any unforseen event that may or may not occur.”
“I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy, but that could change.”
“I believe that I’ve made good judgments in the past, and I think I’ve made good judgments in the future.”
“You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.”
“When you take the UNCF model that, what a waste it is to lose one’s mind, or not to have a mind is being very wasteful, how true that is.”
“For NASA, space is still a high priority.”
“I love California. I practically grew up in Phoenix.”
“It’s wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago.”
“This is where the Continental Congress met over two hundred years ago during the American Revolution. So, Lancaster was actually the capital of our nation for one day in 1977.”
“You’re close, but you left a little something off. The ‘e’ on the end.” – commenting on an elementary school’s student’s spelling of the word “potato”.
“I made a misstatement and I stand by all my misstatements.”
“The future will be better tomorrow.”
Getting away from Quayle because the thought that that man was a heartbeat away from being president for 4 years still gives me the tremors…
In play:
Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport is the sixth-busiest airport in the country and the eighth-busiest worldwide. In 2012, the airport served 40,448,932 passengers and handles more than 1,200 aircraft operations a day. The airport serves as a hub for American Airlines’ merger partner, US Airways and is American’s fifth-largest and primary western hub. Sky Harbor also serves as one of the largest focus cities for Southwest Airlines.
The Hub, which is a shortened form of a phrase recorded by writer Oliver Wendell Holmes referred to the city of Boston as The Hub of the Solar System.This has later changed into into The Hub of the Universe.
Dr. H.H. Holmes (real name Herman Webster Mudgett) was one of the first and one of the most notorious serial killers in US history. In Chicago at the time of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition, Holmes opened a hotel which he had designed and built for himself specifically with murder in mind, and which was the location of many of his murders. While he confessed to 27 murders, of which nine were confirmed, his actual body count could be over 200. He brought an unknown number of his victims to his World’s Fair Hotel, containing nearly-soundproof chambers where he could do his work quietly and dispose of the bodies.
Kareem Abdul Jabar, born Ferdinand Lewis Alindor, Jr., is an avid Sherlock Holmes fan and released a novel this week about Mycroft Holmes. It has received several good reviews.
Kareem Jabbar’s totals in three years of varsity basketball at UCLA were a phenomenal 88-2 record, three straight NCAA championships, three straight years as the NCAA tournament’s most valuable player, and a career average of 26 points per game on a .639 shooting percentage.
Many called Jabbar the greatest collegiate player ever.
The Twenty-sixth (26th) Amendment (Amendment XXVI) to the United States Constitution prohibits the states and the federal government from using age as a reason for denying citizens of the United States who are at least eighteen years old the right to vote.
The amendment became part of the Constitution on July 1, 1971, three months and eight days after the amendment was submitted to the states for ratification, making this amendment the quickest to be ratified.