An outdoor gender-reveal party in California sparks a wildfire.
Detail of the center panel of The Garden of Earthly Delights triptych, by Hieronymous Bosch, c. 1500. © Prado, Madrid / Bridgeman Images.
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A Babylonian medical handbook dating to 1700 BC offers a renal diagnostic that reads, “If his urine is like ass urine, that man suffers from ‘discharge.’” Other alarming symptoms of discharge: if his urine is “like beer dregs,” “like wine dregs,” or “like clear paint.”
Shame on the soul, to falter on the road of life while the body still perseveres.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170Lapham’s
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