Pseudarils are aril-like structures commonly found on the pyrenes of Burseraceae species that develop from the mesocarp of the ovary.
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The human reproductive system contains the largest and smallest human cells. Human cells come in a variety of shapes and sizes, and carry out a wide range of different functions. But the largest and smallest cells in the human body are both gametes, or reproductive cells.
Males produce the smallest human cell — the sperm, which is only 5 micrometers by 3 micrometers in size, not including the sperm’s “tail.” By comparison, the red blood cell is about 8 micrometers in diameter, or about a tenth of the diameter of a human hair.
A female’s ovum, or egg, is the largest human cell, coming in at about 120 micrometers in diameter.
Shit is brown because it contains bilirubin, which is produced by the liver from used-up red blood cells.
Pernicious anemia, also known as vitamin B12 deficiency anemia, is a disease in which there are not enough red blood cells due to a lack of vitamin B12. Before the 1920s it was fatal; George Whipple, George Minot and William Murphy shared the 1934 Nobel Prize in medicine for discovering that eating large quantities of raw liver and drinking liver juice could cure the disease.
Researcher John Sotos states that Mary Todd Lincoln, wife of Abraham Lincoln, had symptoms of pernicious anemia for at least 25 years, and perhaps 40 years, and died of it; her notoriously erratic behavior was quite possibly a result of the disease.
On January 26, 1945, Audie Murphy engaged in action that won him a Medal of Honor and made him one of the most famous and decorated American combat soldiers of WWII. At the age of 19, Murphy single-handedly held off an entire company of German soldiers for an hour at the Colmar Pocket in France, and then led a successful counterattack while wounded and out of ammunition.
Stephen Crane’s “Red Badge of Courage” is considered to be the definitive novel about the US Civil War, a war whose era Crane never experienced. He was born five years after the war ended, and wrote the book when he was only 23. War hero Audie Murphy, who became an actor, had the leading role in the movie version of the book.
HOLY FUCKING SHIT, BATMAN. I DID NOT KNOW THAT!!! Ignorance fought indeed. Thanks Elvis.
“The Civil War” is a college football rivalry between the Oregon State University Beavers and the University of Oregon Ducks. The rivalry is one of the oldest in the nation, dating back to 1894.
Chicago, Houston and Miami are locaed in the three most populous US counties that are named after local personages. They were:
Daniel Cook, who at the age of 25 ws named the Attorney General of Illinois Territory.
John Richardson Harris, who founded and named Harrisburg, which later became a part of the newer settlement of Houston.
Major Francis L. Dade, who died, along with all but two of his 110-man unit, in the Dade Massacre in the Seminole Wars.
On December 29, 1835, the US entered into the Treaty of New Echota with leaders of a minority Cherokee faction, relieving that faction from the program of forcible removal known as the “Trail of Tears.” The phrase “Trail of Tears” originated from a description of the removal of the Choctaw Nation in 1831, the program also involving the Cherokee, Muscogee, Seminole, and Chickasaw Nations.
Emotional tears from women have been found to reduce sexual arousal in men. Also, emotional tears are made up of a different chemical component than those evoked by eye irritants and can relay chemical messages to others. The change in sex drive could be attributed to a drop in testosterone provoked by the tear chemicals, reducing aggression. In the animal world, it has been found that some blind mole rats rub tears all over their bodies as a strategy to keep aggressive mole rats away.
Thanks, Cecil. You’re the shit.
Moleskin isn’t actually made of mole’s skin but heavy cotton, woven and then sheared to create a short, soft pile on one side. Its name is due to the fabric having a soft brushed surface, which is similar to the skin of the subterranean mammal. While it isn’t seen as often as denim, it is frequently used for workwear in Europe, being soft yet a hard wearing fabric. For a portion of the mid-twentieth century, the West German Army also utilized moleskin in their uniforms. Like the indigo dyed moleskin use by French mechanics and the black moleskin used by carpenters, the West German Army also chose a dyed moleskin to match the olive/gray colors used in the military.
Denim originated in Nimes, France, and the name is from “serge des Nimes”. The first commercial American use of the fabric was by Nevada tailor Jacob Davis, wh made work trousers with rivet fasteners in 1873…
When he takes office on Jan. 20, Donald J. Trump will be the oldest American ever to serve as President of the United States, nearly a year older than Ronald Reagan when he moved into the White House in 1981.
On March 30, 1981, John Hinckley, Jr., shot and wounded US President Ronald Reagan and three others outside the Hilton Hotel in Washington DC—Hinckley was trying to impress actress Jodie Foster, with whom he had an obsession.
Songwriter Stephen Foster was known for songs about the South but lived mostly in Pittsburgh and New York. In 1852, Foster and his wife took a delayed honeymoon, a month-long steamship ride to New Orleans with friends, the only trip Stephen ever made to the deep South (he had visited Ohio River towns in Kentucky as a child).