The rings were golden Claddaghs with a garnet in the center. A Claddagh represented friendship, honor, and love.

And then, thankfully, the stream slowed down, until it was nothing more than a few loose dribbles shaking themselves free from her peehole.

Official demographers hasten to point out that high mortality rates were already a feature of the Brezhnev period, while low fertility rates are after all a sign of social advance, in syntony with Western Europe.

May 19. [1649] Oliver Cromwell Lieutenant General of the Parliament Army was then alſo created Dr. of Civil Law. […] [H]is atchievment was induſtriouſly cried up at Weſtminſter and all the Grandees of Scriptural Ovation were fitted and accommodated thereunto.