12672. Gland

Gland : islets of langerhans
Hormone : insulin (beta cells) glucagon (alpha cells).

12673. Gland

Gland : stomach duodenum
Hormone : gastrin secretin cholecystokinin (pancreozymin).

12674. Gland

Gland : kidney ovary
Hormone : renin oestrogens(17 beta-oestradiol) progesterone.

12675. Gland

Gland : corpus luteum
Hormone : progesterone and oestrogen.

12676. Gland

Gland : placenta
Hormone : chorionic gonadotrophin human placental lactogen.

12677. Gland

Gland : testis
Hormone : testosterone.

12678. History Facts

In France in the late 1600s, it was considered a great honour to talk to King Louis XIV while he was on the lavatory.

12679. History Facts

In Anglo-Saxon times, shepherds were given twelve days' worth of cow manure at Christmas.

12680. History Facts

In 896, the rotting body of Pope Formosus was removed from his coffin, dressed in his papal robes and put on trial. Found guilty, his blessing finger was cut off and he was thrown in the river.

12681. History Facts

The body of British philosopher Jeremy Bentham was preserved and kept in an open wooden box which is still on display in University College, London. For many years, Bentham was brought out to attend special functions and meetings.

12682. History Facts

Roman gladiator and slave rebel leader Spartacus had 300 of his followers crucified to show the others what would happen to them if they deserted his army.

12683. History Facts

During the Reign of Terror following the French Revolution, 17,000 people were beheaded using the guillotine.

12684. History Facts

The Scottish bagpipes were originally made from the entire skin or stomach of a dead sheep.

12685. History Facts

Russian leader Peter the Great had a museum in which he kept the stuffed bodies of deformed people and animals, such as a child with two heads and a sheep with five feet. The museum was looked after by a deformed dwarf who knew he would become an exhibit when he died.

12686. History Facts

It took the executioner three blows to behead Mary Queen of Scots in 1567.And he still had to saw through the remaining skin and gristle with a knife.

12687. History Facts

In Ancient Egypt, a flea-catcher would cover himself in milk and stand in the middle of the flea-infested room until all the fleas jumped onto him then he'd leave, taking them all with him.

12688. History Facts

English hatmakers used to soften the straw they plaited into hats by spitting on it.

12689. History Facts

In the 1800s, there were several cases of people being buried when not really dead. Terrible stories about opened coffins with scratch marks on the inside, and corpses with fingernails worn away by trying to escape, led to cautious people being buried with a system of warning bells fitted in the coffin which they could ring if they woke up.

12690. History Facts

During witchcraft trials in Salem, Massachusetts, USA, in 1692, 25 people were condemned to death on the flimsy evidence of a group of hysterical girls.

12691. History Facts

King Kokodo of the Congo ruled for three years after his death. His body was wheeled around in a box during this part of his reign…

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