Inspiration would be "ornaments of animals in jackets with nordic motifs"
not "Ornaments with drawings that almost seem traced from the source material, and with identical jackets with THE EXACT SAME MOTIF in the the EXACT same colors".

Inspiration means you can show the two images side by side and a…

As hilarious as this is, I had a classmate years ago, who when I said "I'm from Indiana... " decided I REALLY meant "India"... and insisted on continuing to ask stupid questions about wildlife for the rest of the semester.

I'll admit to sometimes looking "exotic" but there's no way to really mistake me for someone…

I was in High School at the time... (Northern Indiana, larger town) and OMFG... the comments not just from classmates but things overheard that ADULTS were saying.

Some were just GIDDY when the nude photos came up.

If she's a Church going girl, they'll be "OOOH she's such a good girl, she goes to CHURCH." (provided it's a big popular one) IF they aren't going "what about 'Ms <insert anglo contestant here>... ?" Pretty much the same kinds of things we were hearing the first time an African American girl won the prize.

If…

I'm imagining the awkwardly racist tweets of the same "nativists" when it's a First Nations gal who wins the pageant. (Even better if she's simply anything except Christian too... I suspect "Atheist"/"Agnostic"/ or "None of your business" would cause coronaries.)

...and here I am aghast...
Because when I've gone to historic homes and seen the libraries full of hundreds of old out of print books, I wish I could stay there a few weeks to read them...

However, I DO realize that sometimes the collections of Classic Literature and fancy bound encyclopedias often were as much for…

Can't say about much else, but the oral surgeon who took out my wisdom teeth, with in office surgery, when I was over 30...
was more than an hour from the nearest hospital at the time.

There's also a friend who got outpatient surgery on his hand "the hand clinic" more than an hour from the nearest hospital. (actually…

THIS!

Examinations of the other skulls show that they were made using POWER TOOLS, probably sometime between the late 1800s (1890s) and early 1900s (perhaps as late as just shortly before the "find" was announced). Probably in Germany or Austria where artful crystal cutting/carving was becoming very popular. There are…

I need to amend my comment slightly... I was in the same patient position, came to the ER in pain, some bleeding... and though the Catholic hospital (in the US) initially thought, lets see if it takes care of itself. Within a few hours I was in surgery and on antibiotics and getting appropriate care. About a year…

No, I've actually been in this patient's position, survived and had another child (who is now grown up)...

The procedure is one of the standard treatments for miscarriages, especially "in progress with complications". the fever, shakes, chills, puts this into "emergency intervention has risks, but fewer risks than doing nothing..." at that point if the infection were her appendix, she would have had the emergency…

I don't know all the details, but septicemia was listed in the article as one of the causes of death. This would suggest that the fetus or part of the fetus was causing a bad infection, maybe already ACTUALLY dead and rotting. it gets into the mother's blood stream and infects her too. This would be like leaving a…

He's such a HOTTIE...