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In practice, it's highly variable based on patient location and medication ordered. Sometimes it's based on how likely it is for a department to complain. OR is the absolute worst so their insignificant orders are treated as STAT because they'll complain and call if things aren't nearly instantly available.
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That's their loss.
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Also sometimes referred to as the "Chickwickawowow detector".
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Giving the middle finger.
In MedEvil times,England & France often fought. A proposed prisoner swap was ordered but the King of England had secretly ordered to cut the middle fingers off the French prisoners many who were Archers and you needed the strength of your middle finger to pull the archery bow back. French prisoners got word of this and escaped and in mocking the English they would show their middle fingers in later battles.
In MedEvil times,England & France often fought. A proposed prisoner swap was ordered but the King of England had secretly ordered to cut the middle fingers off the French prisoners many who were Archers and you needed the strength of your middle finger to pull the archery bow back. French prisoners got word of this and escaped and in mocking the English they would show their middle fingers in later battles.
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The Legend of the Werewolf.
In France a couple centuries ago a small town had some people mauled ,mulated ,killed by a creature from the woods. The creature was not like a regular wolf, it was different from witness reports. It had a demonic laugh, and dark red brown hair similar of a human not like a Grey wolf. One farmer finally killed this monster and became a loved hero who was rewarded as Mayor of this town for life. In the early 2000s investigators researched this story from records and witness reports. They wonder if the story was just a fable and it wasn't, it was real. The researchers discovered that this creature actually had been stuffed by a taxidermist and in basement storage at a French History Museum. What they discovered , it was a HYENA. Researchers believe a rich land owner of that time which was common at that time to have exotic animals for show. They believed the hyena escaped and people of France never seen a hyena before. The rich person kept his mouth quiet knowing the town's Wrath would be after him for the killings. Hence the Legend of the Werewolf
In France a couple centuries ago a small town had some people mauled ,mulated ,killed by a creature from the woods. The creature was not like a regular wolf, it was different from witness reports. It had a demonic laugh, and dark red brown hair similar of a human not like a Grey wolf. One farmer finally killed this monster and became a loved hero who was rewarded as Mayor of this town for life. In the early 2000s investigators researched this story from records and witness reports. They wonder if the story was just a fable and it wasn't, it was real. The researchers discovered that this creature actually had been stuffed by a taxidermist and in basement storage at a French History Museum. What they discovered , it was a HYENA. Researchers believe a rich land owner of that time which was common at that time to have exotic animals for show. They believed the hyena escaped and people of France never seen a hyena before. The rich person kept his mouth quiet knowing the town's Wrath would be after him for the killings. Hence the Legend of the Werewolf
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The first known story that has a werewolf in it is the Epic of Gilgamesh, which was from about 2100 BC.
In 425 BC, Greek historian Herodotus described the Neuri, a nomadic tribe of magical men who changed into wolf shapes for several days of the year.
Likely some of what fueled Werewolf stories is people using wolf skins to keep warm in winter and were seen at a distance.
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would have been a totally different show. Bob Denver and Carroll would have been awkward.
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coach landry's last win was a 24-17 victory over washington at rfk stadium...dec 11,1988.
rookie wr michael irvin scored 3 tds...6 rec for 149yds.
herschel ran for 98yds on the ground.
steve pelluer threw for 333yds.
i remember that game like yesterday.
rookie wr michael irvin scored 3 tds...6 rec for 149yds.
herschel ran for 98yds on the ground.
steve pelluer threw for 333yds.
i remember that game like yesterday.
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Jame Mansfield's daughter is Mariska Hargitay of Law and Order
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During WW1 German U-boats were sinking most of the Allied merchant fleet. The British noticed that the submarines doesn't go near any ships that could actually shoot back, so it made sense to disguise the warships as small merchant ships.
They also noticed that the subs surfaced when they attacked. So they came up with this idea: lure the Germans to the disguised ships (classified as Q-ships), then blow them to smithereens when they broke the surface.
But this disguise had to be convincing, so this is where things got downright weird. The sailors donned costumes, so they wouldn't look like military when viewed through a periscope. Some of them dressed as women and walked around on deck snuggling with other dudes. Some dressed with fake parrots, or in blackface.
They even choreographed elaborate acts where once a U-boat was spotted, they'd act like panicked civilians and begin to abandon ship, making a show of running into each other and tripping and falling. Some would even jump into the lifeboats and pretend to leave someone behind, and he would stand on the railing screaming for them to come back and get him
Meanwhile, guns were hidden all over the ships, behind normal-looking hatches, inside shipping crates, under fake smokestacks, behind false walls and inside fake lifeboats. Once the unsuspecting U-boat surfaced for the easy kill, the captain pulled a lever, all the trapdoors would open and guns would point out the sides and blow the baffled Germans to hell.
Apparently at least 70 German submarines actually fell for this, and 14 of them were sunk. This makes cross-dressing sailors the seventh leading cause of death for World War I German submariners.
However, after the war, it was concluded that Q-ships were greatly overrated, diverting skilled seamen from other duties without sinking enough U-boats to justify the strategy.[
They also noticed that the subs surfaced when they attacked. So they came up with this idea: lure the Germans to the disguised ships (classified as Q-ships), then blow them to smithereens when they broke the surface.
But this disguise had to be convincing, so this is where things got downright weird. The sailors donned costumes, so they wouldn't look like military when viewed through a periscope. Some of them dressed as women and walked around on deck snuggling with other dudes. Some dressed with fake parrots, or in blackface.
They even choreographed elaborate acts where once a U-boat was spotted, they'd act like panicked civilians and begin to abandon ship, making a show of running into each other and tripping and falling. Some would even jump into the lifeboats and pretend to leave someone behind, and he would stand on the railing screaming for them to come back and get him
Meanwhile, guns were hidden all over the ships, behind normal-looking hatches, inside shipping crates, under fake smokestacks, behind false walls and inside fake lifeboats. Once the unsuspecting U-boat surfaced for the easy kill, the captain pulled a lever, all the trapdoors would open and guns would point out the sides and blow the baffled Germans to hell.
Apparently at least 70 German submarines actually fell for this, and 14 of them were sunk. This makes cross-dressing sailors the seventh leading cause of death for World War I German submariners.
However, after the war, it was concluded that Q-ships were greatly overrated, diverting skilled seamen from other duties without sinking enough U-boats to justify the strategy.[