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Shepherd Neame is an English independent brewery which has been based in the market town of Faversham, Kent, for over 300 years. [3] While 1698 is the brewery's official established date, town records show that commercial brewing has occurred on the site since 1573.
Astrophytum myriostigma, the bishop's cap cactus, bishop's hat or bishop's miter cactus, is a species of cactus native to the highlands of northeastern and central Mexico. Synonyms include Echinocactus myriostigma , Astrophytum prismaticum , A. columnare , A. tulense , and A. nuda .
The death cap is named in Latin as such in the correspondence between the English physician Thomas Browne and Christopher Merrett. [13] Also, it was described by French botanist Sébastien Vaillant in 1727, who gave a succinct phrase name "Fungus phalloides, annulatus, sordide virescens, et patulus"—a recognizable name for the fungus today. [14]
Once you eat a death cap mushroom, the toxins are absorbed by the stomach and circulated in the kidneys and liver, Pringle explains. "The liver shuts down because it can't make proteins," she says ...
A family in Canada is mourning the loss of their young son whose recent death is believed to have been caused by a poisonous mushroom. CBC News reports that the unnamed three-year old ate a toxic ...
It was quite common for bishops and popes to wear other rings along with the episcopal ring; the 1882 edition of Caeremoniale episcoporum (Book II, viii, nn. 10–11) still assumed that this was likely to be the case. A priest kisses the episcopal ring of a bishop as a sign of respect and obedience to the office of a bishop as his shepherd.
Like other mountains in Glacier National Park, Bishops Cap is composed of sedimentary rock laid down during the Precambrian to Jurassic periods. Formed in shallow seas, this sedimentary rock was initially uplifted beginning 170 million years ago when the Lewis Overthrust fault pushed an enormous slab of precambrian rocks 3 mi (4.8 km) thick, 50 miles (80 km) wide and 160 miles (260 km) long ...
William (Wilhelm) Finnemann (December 18, 1882 – October 26, 1942) was a priest of the Society of the Divine Word, auxiliary bishop of Manila and apostolic vicar of Calapan, the Philippines. He was martyred by the Japanese through being thrown into the sea near Verde Island off the coast of Batangas City , Batangas .