Loud drumming and blaring And strident fanfaring, Big banging and booming were rife in the air.

That’s right. In fact, a law which passed in Mississippi is so restrictive, it could close the one remaining abortion clinic they have in the entire state, meaning a Mississippi woman, right now, could be saying to herself, “I need to go someplace more progressive like Alabama.”

Hindus often depict subgods such as Vishnu with multiple arms or heads that allow them more opportunity to protect people.

Music-wise, the biggest event in the Thames Valley area is definitely the rocktastic 3-dayer known as Reading Festival, but if huge isn't your thing try the Truck Nine Festival in Abingdon or catch part of the upper-class English summer season—watching the rowing, champers in hand, at the Henley Regatta.