The classic symptom of angina is an aching and uncomfortable feeling in the chest, focused of course around the heart. This pain occurs as a result of the heart struggling to do what itâs meant to do, with less oxygen being provided to the essential muscle through your blood.
Mile-a-minute first became established in the US in the mid 1930s at the Gable Nursery in Stewartstown, York County, Pennsylvania, where it emerged with a planting of holly seeds that originated from Japan (Moul 1948). Persicaria perfoliata has now invaded at least 12 mid-Atlantic and northeastern states.
Click here for audio of Episode 260. Today, we find out how long an inch is. The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them. Units of measure were fairly standard in 18th-century England. Henry VIII had defined the yard as the distance from his nose to the tip of his outstretched hand. His daughter, Queen Elizabeth, rather liked the Roman mile -- a distance of about 5000 English feet.