i was looking up how we ended up calling connectors male and female

The Talmud describes arrow heads and mating shafts as potentially being either male or female, depending on their construction, i.e. a prong on a male arrow head fits into a hollowed out shaft and vice versa. This is owing to a prohibition on a female shaft, from its susceptibility as a receptacle for impurity, for use as s'chach.[4]

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"A normal school or normal college trains teachers in the norms of pedagogy and curriculum."

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The Spite plateau is a baseline in the abundance of lithium found in old stars orbiting the galactic halo.

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The phonetician Jack Windsor Lewis frequently criticised the name "Received Pronunciation" in his blog: he has called it "invidious",[22] a "ridiculously archaic, parochial and question-begging term"[23] and noted that American scholars find the term "quite curious".[24]

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“When the deceleration sensors detect a potential crash, small explosive cartridges are triggered electrically, and the resulting pressurized gas feeds into tiny Wankel air motors, which tighten the seat belts and anchor the driver and passengers firmly in the seat before a collision.”

Vehicle features: Onboard rube-goldberg machine

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In U.S. culture, despite its republican constitution and ideology,[4] royalist honorific nicknames have been used to describe leading figures in various areas of activity, such as industry, commerce, sports, and the media; father or mother have been used for innovators, and royal titles such as king and queen for dominant figures in a field.[5][6]

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