People today usually associate chainsaws with cutting down trees, but their original use you’re more likely to associate with something like the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. In the dark ages of modern medicine, the chainsaw was invented to assist in childbirth. Why Were Chainsaws Used in Childbirth? We often take for granted how miraculous C-sections are, […]
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We are nearly all familiar today with the elaborately dressed formal guards stationed around Vatican City in Rome. Their brightly colored dress uniforms of blue, red, orange, and yellow and armor and halberds are a relic of a bygone era. Known as the Swiss Guards, they have been a feature of the Papal microstate throughout
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It is strange the traditions that survive over the centuries. For instance, most European countries and nations in the Americas continue to have a feast day around the last day of October or the first day of November every year. These festivals, be they Halloween, the Day of the Dead, or All Saints Day, depending
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Nearly all children who grew up during the twentieth century are familiar with the nursery rhyme of Humpty Dumpty. This modern version of the short rhyme runs as follows: “Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall; All the King’s horses And all the King’s men, Couldn’t put Humpty together again.”
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