Do you know the feeling when you eat ice-cream too fast and you get a sudden, very painful headache? It's called sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia and it is caused by the sudden dilation of blood vessels in the head.
Luckily, I haven't had this feeling since childhood. I hated it back then. You cannot do anything, but to wait for it to go away.
Ice-cream hell. :)
Titanis was its name and it ruled North America. That's right, a bird was the ruler of the US of A a few million years ago. It couldn't fly, but boy it could run and it didn't hesitate to use its axe-like beak if you didn't appease it.
Would you like a bird as your ruler?
In 1487 for the re-consecration of Great Pyramid of Tenochtitlan the Aztec guys sacrificed thousands of people. According to the historical sources the victims were walking slowly in 4 queues (each several kilometers long) toward the temple and there the priests killed them and cut their heart out continuously for days:
"At the inauguration of this Great Temple in 1487, Ahuizotl ordered the sacrifice of many prisoners of war; an average of 1,000 victims a day were sacrificed over a period of twenty days. Each day blood ran like a river onto the pavement of the Great Plaza, and the stairs of the great pyramid were literally bathed in blood."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pyramid_of_Tenochtitlan
We denounce the bloody conquest of Mexico these days, but the Aztecs themselves weren't exactly angels back then.
He couldn't determine the age of the tree with his borer, so he told the forest service to cut it down. They did and he was able to study the age of the tree easily by looking at the stump:
Pity the Little Ice Age he wanted to study began only 600 years ago, so choosing such an old tree was a slight overshot. Sic itur gloria mundi.
Check out these girls. They seem very happy and relaxed. I'd say they are much happier than some "normal" people. Abigail and Brittany Hensel are conjoined twins who share one body. Kudos to them.
