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Glossary of British terms not widely used in the United States



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And there are few Halloween images more iconic than a witch on her broomstick, flying through the sky, usually across a full moon. When absorbed, these ointments, because they contained deliriants not hallucinogens gave the feeling of flying. So the people who used them usually women were getting high, almost literally. Like many psychoactive drugs used in religious rites, the use of flying ointment has pretty ancient roots. As noted above, henbane was a popular ingredient for flying ointment.


The End of Men
In the s the biologist Ronald Ericsson came up with a way to separate sperm carrying the male-producing Y chromosome from those carrying the X. He sent the two kinds of sperm swimming down a glass tube through ever-thicker albumin barriers. The sperm with the X chromosome had a larger head and a longer tail, and so, he figured, they would get bogged down in the viscous liquid. The sperm with the Y chromosome were leaner and faster and could swim down to the bottom of the tube more efficiently. In the late s, Ericsson leased the method to clinics around the U.




We present the worst music videos ever from Susan Boyle to Milli Vanilli and back again. That big-haired lady straddling the cannon is Cher. Good on you, Paris Hilton — you successfully created something that sucked more than the song itself which, frankly, we thought would be impossible to do. First we see a montage of Daniel against a black screen, stringed together by someone who seemingly just discovered iMovie or whatever they had back in for the very first time. Then cue cheesy dance-in-some-clouds-with-an-unbuttoned-shirt-flapping-in-the-wind moment.