I had never paid much attention to the significance of the kidneys until something went wrong in the kidneys of someone close to me. The kidneys, notes one scientist, are the "master chemists" of the body. Regulating acid and salt levels, producing and maintaining hormones, the kidneys also carry out the life - sustaining task of cleansing the blood. Every minute more than two pints of blood enter the kidneys through the renal arteries, filtering out waste and toxins while keeping in protein and red blood cells. After the blood is cleansed, it flows back into the body through the renal veins. I dare say I will not overlook the s ignificance of the kidneys again...
Two trucks loaded with a thousand copies of Roget's Thesaurus collided as they left a New York publishing house last Thursday, according to the Associated Press.
Witnesses were stunned, startled, aghast, taken aback, stupefied..
Protestant reformer. Martin Luther was the first and greatest figure in the 16th-century Reformation. A composer of commentaries on Scripture, theology, and ecclesiastical abuses, a hymnologist, and a preacher, from his own time to the present he has been a symbol of Protestantism. In 1505, he made a decision that changed the course of his life radically: he decided to enter the Augustinian monastery in Erfurt. This decision shaped the rest of his life, and his search for a merciful God and His Will culminated in the development of the Reformation of the Church. Luther's negative personal experiences with the ecclesiastical means of grace resulted in not only increasing criticism of the deplorable state of affairs within the church but above all to a fundamental reconsideration of medieval theology.
The most important and influential event since Biblical times to the present occurred when Luther stood before the Pope (the most powerful man in the world at that time - when he spoke, kings trembled) and stated after being told to recant his teachings/views, "Here I stand - I can do no other." This event were more consequential and changed the course of history more than the invention of the printing press, the discovery/use of the A-Bomb, or either World War (as important as these events were)!!! - Howdy