Two of John Tallis’ decorative atlas maps, Mexico, California and Texas and United States, illustrate Texas at the geographic crossroads of North America. Both maps present Texas in 1851, but the…
A set of triplets have been born in different decades after their mum gave birth to them five days apart.
Kaylie DeShane, 33, from New York, gave birth to her triplets in different decades after delivering her first baby on December 28 2019 and then giving birth to the remaining two triplets five days later on January 2, 2020.
Kaylie currently holds the world record for the longest interval between the birth of triplets after beating the previous record of two days.
Despite the staggering low odds of survival - with one triplet only having nine per cent chance of making it after being born at 22 weeks - the triplets, Rowan, Declan and Cian all survived, and are now 17-months-old.
Editor’s note:
The following homily preached by the Reverend Peter M. J. Stravinskas, Ph.D., S.T.D., at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Walsingham (Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter), in Houston, Texas, on the Solemnity of the Ascension of Our Lord (May 13, 2021).
The Jesus of the Ordinariate (and a few other ecclesiastical jurisdictions around the country) always catches His flight to Heaven on time, while His flight home is delayed throughout the majority of American dioceses, thus rendering the feast Ascension Sunday instead of Ascension Thursday, supposedly because a mid-week holy day is too much of a burden for either the clergy or the laity. Not only is this an embarrassing assertion, it also breaks a definite linkage with New Testament chronology (which tells us that Christ ascended to His Father “forty days” after His Resurrection); it also destroys the centuries-old novena to the Holy Spirit, whereby Catholics have joined with Our Lady and the Apostles in the Upper
Early Roy Lichtenstein: A fount of insight on postwar America
By Murray Whyte Globe Staff,Updated May 7, 2021, 8:43 a.m.
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Roy Lichtenstein s Washington Crossing the Delaware II, from about 1951.Estate of Roy Lichtenstein/Courtesy of Gabriel Miller
WATERVILLE, Maine â In 1940, an Ohio State undergraduate named Roy Lichtenstein â yes, that Roy Lichtenstein â made a loose and gestural ink sketch of Paul Bunyan felling a tree with a mighty swing. He passed it off to his roommate with a wink. Keep it, he said. Iâm going to be famous someday.
Someday came, and famous he was, though not for works like that. In 1961, Lichtenstein made âLook Mickey,â his first-ever appropriation of a four-color pulp illustration. (He lifted it from the 1960 kidsâ book âDonald Duck: Lost and Found.â) That anchored him as one of the pillars of the thoroughly American Pop Art movement.
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Nadya Suleman from the US is the current official Guinness world-record holder for multiple births. In 2009, she was coined Octomom after giving birth to eight babies - six girls and two boys - all of which have thrived and grown up. They were conceived with IVF treatment and delivered nine weeks prematurely via caesarean (C-section).
Can you have a natural birth with more than two babies?
No. The birth of more than one baby carries more risks according to the NHS. Twins
can be delivered naturally (through the vagina) if they re in the right position and with extra monitoring and around 40 per cent of twins born in the UK are born naturally.