No sex here! / 13 sons and 1 daughter / Mannequins
Short snippet of a conversation:
[19:33:23] Flami: SEXTUPLETS HERE?! No way!: guess what else I've been doing today!
[20:00:57] Corey: SEX
[20:01:42] Corey: (which is what your name says on my taskbar.. "Flami: SEX...")
[20:14:26] Flami: SEXTUPLETS HERE?! No way!: uh, no :P
Reminds me of what Josh Adams had to say about a long-ago YM status message of mine: "You know, I had to scroll a bit to see the entirety of that status message. You had me oddly intrigued when I could only read, 'I eat dic..' " (Wednesday, 7 May 2003) [for the record, the entirety of that one read: "I eat dictionaries" .. and NOT something else! :P]
This essay on quarternary marriages: twins marrying twins is pretty interesting: one instance even had a double divorce on their wedding anniversary! I used to haunt those forums with regularity, but stopped when Internet Drama blew up over some jabronie on there who thought I shouldn't be on there since I wasn't a multiple or a parent of multiples. Well, I plan to go back there even as a lurker! :P Not that I can access posts before August 2006 because there's an automatic pruning process in place, but it'll be cool nonetheless. There are at least two posters with seven daughters, and one with seven sons... and there are more with at least eight kids and more! Crazy people... but as long as they can handle it...
Thank goodness for the Web Archive, since it helped me find the middle names / birthdays for the Arndt family. Thirteen sons and one daughter?! I had these before the first edition of my BootyBase went *poof* in July 2003 due to something I did. Yay for having them again! (I like compiling information... what can I say? :P) I guess they had to recycle names to keep in a reasonable Biblical tradition: Paul-Matthew Joseph Arndt, John-Andrew Michael Arndt, Mark-David Timothy Arndt, Luke-Joseph Peter Arndt, Jude-Peter Matthew Arndt, James-Michael Philip Arndt, Philip-Thomas Luke Arndt, Seth-Benjamin Mark Arndt, Jacob-Timothy John Arndt, Nathan-Stephen Paul Arndt, Mary-Elizabeth Anne Arndt, Caleb-Nicholas David Arndt, and Peter-John Benjamin Arndt. (only 13 there, and not 14) The parents even reused the name "Peter" for a live baby since one of their miscarried babies was named Peter-Michael Arndt. Oh well... maybe it's a nice memorial?
Chernenko family
A Sacramento family may have a very valid argument for being the largest family in the U.S. The Chernenkos just had their 17th child.
A great deal of media attention has been focused lately on the Duggar family in Arkansas. They have 16 children, and say they could have more. However, the Chernenkos, who came from the Ukraine, have had 17 children in 24 years of marriage.
"When we got married, it was back in the Ukraine," Vladimir Chernenko said to News10 through a translator. "In six months, we didn't have any children, and I didn't think we'd be having any children at all!"
That all soon changed. Twenty-two-year-old Sergey was the first child born to the couple. He soon got plenty of company. The Chernenkos have had a child nearly every year since.
Large families with eight or 10 children are not uncommon in the Ukraine, so the Chernenkos don't really see their brood as particularly unusual. They say there are plenty of voices to fill out a family choir, one of the family's pastimes.
Chernenko supports his family working as a security guard and maintenance man. The family car is a 15-seat passenger van. No one has to share a bed, and the children seem to appreciate the advantages of having plenty of brothers and sisters. "It's a lot of fun," said 16-year-old Ludya. "You're never bored. You always have someone to talk with."
The Chernenko family is made up of father Vladimir and mother Zynaida, 22-year-old Sergey; 21-year-old Lilia, 19-year-old Andrey, 18-year-old Dmitry, 17-year-old Anatoly, 16-year-old Lyudma, 15-year-old Anna, 13-year-old Vitaly, 12-year-old Oksana, 10-year-old Svetlana, 9-year-old Inna, 8-year-old Vyacheslav, 6-year-old Paul, 5-year-old Diana, 4-year-old Alina, 2-year-old Timothy, and 8-day-old David.
Today's Life-Sized Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
While there are many CPR dummies or mannequins on the market, the face of the one most widely used was modeled on that of an anonymous young woman whose body was fished from the Seine around the turn of the 20th century. It was believed she had taken her own life, but since she was never identified, no details of her life were known and the events leading to her demise remain a mystery. The unknown girl was entered in the books at the Paris morgue as "ecadavre feminin inconnu" (unknown female cadaver) before her remains were disposed of in an unmarked pauper's grave. A death mask was made of her features, but it is unclear if this was done in furtherance of attempts to establish her identity, or because an unnamed morgue attendant was so taken by her visage that he took it upon himself to craft a memento of her beauty.
(It is not true that death masks were routinely made of all decedents who graced the Paris morgue with their presence. Instead, beginning in 1881, the bodies of up to fourteen unknown persons would be laid out in a chilled room fronted by a plate glass window before which an endless train of the curious would pass, in hopes that some of the passersby would recognize some of the morgue's unidentified guests. Unknown Paris, a volume of engravings from 1893 about the city's less savory landmarks, said of it: "There is not a single window in Paris that attracts more onlookers than this.") The death mask of the girl who came to be known as "L'Inconnue de la Seine" made it out of the morgue by unknown means and into the souvenir shops. Its serene beauty, displaying a calm repose the real girl had perhaps not known in life, spoke to people. The mask took on a life of its own, becoming a "must have" objet d'art, and several factories were engaged at once to produce it in vast numbers.
In the mid-1950s, Dr. Peter Safar, a pioneer in emergency medicine, developed a method of mouth-to-mouth resuscitation combined with chest compression; in 1958, he presented a paper on this technique in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Safar believed his methods could be employed by those outside the medical field to save lives, provided these laypeople were given adequate training in his techniques. To more effectively teach this procedure to them, he envisioned having a life-sized doll that novices to cardiopulmonary resuscitation could practice on, and so he approached toymaker Asmund Laerdal with the idea of developing a realistic mannequin for CPR training. Laerdal took up the challenge.
The face Laerdal used for his training dummy was that of "L'Inconnue de la Seine," the by-then well-traveled death mask of an unknown Parisian girl. The modern CPR dummy was built in 1960 and sold under the name "Resusci Anne." In North America, she has been christened "CPR Annie." Many a student of basic CPR has been taught to check if a patient is unconscious by gently shaking the doll and calling, "Annie, Annie, are you OK?"
Culled from: Snopes.Com
Generously submitted by: Brian
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And here's an image of CPR Annie herself.
*******
Ghastly!
In case you haven't heard, someone has leaked more footage of Saddam Hussein - this time, it's post-execution footage from the morgue. You can see that the hanging ripped open his throat pretty badly and broke his neck. He was lucky - no lengthy suffering in death, like what sometimes happens with botched hangings.
*******
Urban Exploration Link Du Jour!
Mustard Gas Party is a collection of some of the most beautiful urban exploration photographs I've ever seen. Absolutely breathtaking! Thanks to cricket for the link.
[19:33:23] Flami: SEXTUPLETS HERE?! No way!: guess what else I've been doing today!
[20:00:57] Corey: SEX
[20:01:42] Corey: (which is what your name says on my taskbar.. "Flami: SEX...")
[20:14:26] Flami: SEXTUPLETS HERE?! No way!: uh, no :P
Reminds me of what Josh Adams had to say about a long-ago YM status message of mine: "You know, I had to scroll a bit to see the entirety of that status message. You had me oddly intrigued when I could only read, 'I eat dic..' " (Wednesday, 7 May 2003) [for the record, the entirety of that one read: "I eat dictionaries" .. and NOT something else! :P]
This essay on quarternary marriages: twins marrying twins is pretty interesting: one instance even had a double divorce on their wedding anniversary! I used to haunt those forums with regularity, but stopped when Internet Drama blew up over some jabronie on there who thought I shouldn't be on there since I wasn't a multiple or a parent of multiples. Well, I plan to go back there even as a lurker! :P Not that I can access posts before August 2006 because there's an automatic pruning process in place, but it'll be cool nonetheless. There are at least two posters with seven daughters, and one with seven sons... and there are more with at least eight kids and more! Crazy people... but as long as they can handle it...
Thank goodness for the Web Archive, since it helped me find the middle names / birthdays for the Arndt family. Thirteen sons and one daughter?! I had these before the first edition of my BootyBase went *poof* in July 2003 due to something I did. Yay for having them again! (I like compiling information... what can I say? :P) I guess they had to recycle names to keep in a reasonable Biblical tradition: Paul-Matthew Joseph Arndt, John-Andrew Michael Arndt, Mark-David Timothy Arndt, Luke-Joseph Peter Arndt, Jude-Peter Matthew Arndt, James-Michael Philip Arndt, Philip-Thomas Luke Arndt, Seth-Benjamin Mark Arndt, Jacob-Timothy John Arndt, Nathan-Stephen Paul Arndt, Mary-Elizabeth Anne Arndt, Caleb-Nicholas David Arndt, and Peter-John Benjamin Arndt. (only 13 there, and not 14) The parents even reused the name "Peter" for a live baby since one of their miscarried babies was named Peter-Michael Arndt. Oh well... maybe it's a nice memorial?
Chernenko family
A Sacramento family may have a very valid argument for being the largest family in the U.S. The Chernenkos just had their 17th child.
A great deal of media attention has been focused lately on the Duggar family in Arkansas. They have 16 children, and say they could have more. However, the Chernenkos, who came from the Ukraine, have had 17 children in 24 years of marriage.
"When we got married, it was back in the Ukraine," Vladimir Chernenko said to News10 through a translator. "In six months, we didn't have any children, and I didn't think we'd be having any children at all!"
That all soon changed. Twenty-two-year-old Sergey was the first child born to the couple. He soon got plenty of company. The Chernenkos have had a child nearly every year since.
Large families with eight or 10 children are not uncommon in the Ukraine, so the Chernenkos don't really see their brood as particularly unusual. They say there are plenty of voices to fill out a family choir, one of the family's pastimes.
Chernenko supports his family working as a security guard and maintenance man. The family car is a 15-seat passenger van. No one has to share a bed, and the children seem to appreciate the advantages of having plenty of brothers and sisters. "It's a lot of fun," said 16-year-old Ludya. "You're never bored. You always have someone to talk with."
The Chernenko family is made up of father Vladimir and mother Zynaida, 22-year-old Sergey; 21-year-old Lilia, 19-year-old Andrey, 18-year-old Dmitry, 17-year-old Anatoly, 16-year-old Lyudma, 15-year-old Anna, 13-year-old Vitaly, 12-year-old Oksana, 10-year-old Svetlana, 9-year-old Inna, 8-year-old Vyacheslav, 6-year-old Paul, 5-year-old Diana, 4-year-old Alina, 2-year-old Timothy, and 8-day-old David.
Today's Life-Sized Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
While there are many CPR dummies or mannequins on the market, the face of the one most widely used was modeled on that of an anonymous young woman whose body was fished from the Seine around the turn of the 20th century. It was believed she had taken her own life, but since she was never identified, no details of her life were known and the events leading to her demise remain a mystery. The unknown girl was entered in the books at the Paris morgue as "ecadavre feminin inconnu" (unknown female cadaver) before her remains were disposed of in an unmarked pauper's grave. A death mask was made of her features, but it is unclear if this was done in furtherance of attempts to establish her identity, or because an unnamed morgue attendant was so taken by her visage that he took it upon himself to craft a memento of her beauty.
(It is not true that death masks were routinely made of all decedents who graced the Paris morgue with their presence. Instead, beginning in 1881, the bodies of up to fourteen unknown persons would be laid out in a chilled room fronted by a plate glass window before which an endless train of the curious would pass, in hopes that some of the passersby would recognize some of the morgue's unidentified guests. Unknown Paris, a volume of engravings from 1893 about the city's less savory landmarks, said of it: "There is not a single window in Paris that attracts more onlookers than this.") The death mask of the girl who came to be known as "L'Inconnue de la Seine" made it out of the morgue by unknown means and into the souvenir shops. Its serene beauty, displaying a calm repose the real girl had perhaps not known in life, spoke to people. The mask took on a life of its own, becoming a "must have" objet d'art, and several factories were engaged at once to produce it in vast numbers.
In the mid-1950s, Dr. Peter Safar, a pioneer in emergency medicine, developed a method of mouth-to-mouth resuscitation combined with chest compression; in 1958, he presented a paper on this technique in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Safar believed his methods could be employed by those outside the medical field to save lives, provided these laypeople were given adequate training in his techniques. To more effectively teach this procedure to them, he envisioned having a life-sized doll that novices to cardiopulmonary resuscitation could practice on, and so he approached toymaker Asmund Laerdal with the idea of developing a realistic mannequin for CPR training. Laerdal took up the challenge.
The face Laerdal used for his training dummy was that of "L'Inconnue de la Seine," the by-then well-traveled death mask of an unknown Parisian girl. The modern CPR dummy was built in 1960 and sold under the name "Resusci Anne." In North America, she has been christened "CPR Annie." Many a student of basic CPR has been taught to check if a patient is unconscious by gently shaking the doll and calling, "Annie, Annie, are you OK?"
Culled from: Snopes.Com
Generously submitted by: Brian
**********************************************************************
And here's an image of CPR Annie herself.
*******
Ghastly!
In case you haven't heard, someone has leaked more footage of Saddam Hussein - this time, it's post-execution footage from the morgue. You can see that the hanging ripped open his throat pretty badly and broke his neck. He was lucky - no lengthy suffering in death, like what sometimes happens with botched hangings.
*******
Urban Exploration Link Du Jour!
Mustard Gas Party is a collection of some of the most beautiful urban exploration photographs I've ever seen. Absolutely breathtaking! Thanks to cricket for the link.
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