I require and charge you (as you will aunswere at the dreadefull daye of iudgemente, when the secretes of all hartes shalbee disclosed) that if either of you doe knowe any impedimente why ye maie not bee lawfully ioyned together in matrimonie, that ye confesse it.

The Menippean satire—or Menippea— takes its name from the philosopher Menippus of Gadara (third century BC) to identify a particular kind (or genre) of writing that was to evolve during the Classical period through the work of Varro (first century BC) and various other writers and, in Bakhtin's words "in its ancient phase culminates in De Consolatione Philosophy of Boethius. Nevertheless, despite its ancient origins Bakhtin employs the principle of the Menippea as a means of identifying and discussing the work of later writers -- specifically Dostoevsky.

For example, the antitumour depsipeptide kahalalide F was isolated from the opisthobranch mollusc Elysia rufescens, and is used by both the mollusc and its dietary alga Bryopsis spp.

This book has a few factual inaccuracies, but only because of the limits of contemporary knowledge. For instance, at the time of writing, Ribbon Falls was thought to be the highest waterfall in the world; today we know that Angel Falls in Venezuela has this distinction.