“Berries so defined include grapes, currants, and tomatoes, as well as cucumbers, eggplants (aubergines) and bananas, but exclude certain fruits commonly called berries, such as strawberries and raspberries.”
“They are merely banded together as usual, one leaning on another and all together on nothing; as the Hindoos made the world rest on an elephant, and the elephant on a tortoise, and had nothing to put under the tortoise.”
“In his performances, he often used the I Ching in order to determine the sequence of his dances and, often, dancers were not informed of the order until the night of the performance.”
“The genetic quality of sperm, as well as its volume and motility, all may decrease with age, leading the population geneticist James F. Crow to claim that the ‘greatest mutational health hazard to the human genome is fertile older males.’”
“Robinson reported that this action was inspired by Wojnarowicz's 1991 memoir ‘Close to the Knives,’ which imagined ’what it would be like if, each time a lover, friend or stranger died of this disease, their friends, lovers or neighbors would take the dead body and drive with it in a car a hundred miles an hour to Washington DC and blast through the gates of the White House and come to a screeching halt before the entrance and dump their lifeless form on the front steps.’”
“The objective of play is to use a striker disk with a flick of the finger to make contact with and move lighter object disks called carrom men, which are thus propelled into one of four corner pockets.”
“As a direct result of these missing records and the religious institutes' commitment to secrecy, Magdalen laundries can only exist ‘at the level of story rather than history.’”
“Heimlich and his wife had four children: Phil Heimlich, a former Cincinnati elected official turned conservative Christian radio talk-show host; investigative blogger Peter Heimlich, whose website describes what he alleges to be his father's ‘wide-ranging, unseen 50-year history of fraud’ and has called his father, ‘a spectacular con man and serial liar’ and has claimed, ‘The only thing my father ever invented was his own mythology;’ Janet Heimlich, a freelance reporter; and Elisabeth Heimlich.”
“In historical times the Chilean coast has suffered many megathrust earthquakes along this plate boundary, including the strongest earthquake ever measured, which is the 1960 Valdivia earthquake.”
