Identified as priests by their ritual bags, like that carried by the figure on La Venta's Monument 19, these men are depicted in a ritual context, and the priests' ritual regalia, the "seeded" streams decorated with rows of flowers falling from their hands, the facial paint, the necklaces of shells, the two scrolls similar to speech scrolls rising from their hands, and, most important, the feathered serpent headdresses, all combine to leave no doubt that the focus of their ritual is fertility.36 It is thus significant that the open-jawed serpent of the headdress is virtually identical to the plumed serpents projecting from the frieze of the Temple of Quetzalcatl at Teotihuacn (pl
None of which is to say that I ever became the sort of person who never leaves her house without lipstick
A brain imaging study showed that showing smokers film clips with smoking stimulated the part their brain that generates pleasurable feelings as well as the part of their brain that controls moving their hand, which helps explain how seeing onscreen smoking stimulates smoking
I might just be picking out beats
For me, that's around 135F for medium-rare
