Studies suggest that knowledge of its existence and anatomy is scant in comparison to that of other sexual organs, and that more education about it could help alleviate social stigmas associated with the female body and female sexual pleasure ; for example, that the clitoris – and the vulva in general – are visually unappealing ; that female masturbation is taboo ; or that women's orgasms are something that " men are expected to master and control ".

President Robinson ( 1990 – 97 ) chose unilaterally to break the taboo by regularly visiting the United Kingdom for public functions, frequently in connection with Anglo-Irish Relations or to visit the Irish emigrant community in Great Britain.

It should be further noted that in these theories anthropologists are generally concerned solely with brother – sister incest, and are not claiming that all sexual relations among family members are taboo or even necessarily considered incestuous by that society.

An extreme example of this principle, and an exception to the incest taboo, is found among members of the ruling class in certain ancient states, such as the Inca, Egypt, China, and Hawaii ; brother – sister marriage ( usually between half-siblings ) was a means of maintaining wealth and political power within one family.

Plutarch described Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Serapio ( 141 – 132 BC ) as the first to leave Italy, after being forced by the Senate to do so, and thus break the sacred taboo.

Euphemistic circumlocution is also used to avoid saying " unlucky words " – words which are taboo for reasons connected with superstition.

It is, however, short of the magic number, due to the fact that " taboo floors " like 14th and 24th are omitted as being inauspicious – 14 sounds like " definitely fatal " and 24 like " easily fatal " in Cantonese.

It is often considered rude and a social taboo in many parts of the world, including Western countries – where it is frequently forbidden by local laws, because it was thought to facilitate the spread of disease ; the laws are generally not strictly enforced.

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Australia's ageing post-war team broke up after 1926, with Collins, Charlie Macartney and Warren Bardsley all departing, and Gregory breaking down at the start of the 1928 – 29 series.

In the 1974 – 75 series, with the England team breaking up and their best batsman Geoff Boycott refusing to play, Australian pace bowlers Jeff Thomson and Dennis Lillee wreaked havoc.

* 1864 – The Union Navy captures Fort Morgan, Alabama, thus breaking Confederate dominance of all ports on the Gulf of Mexico except Galveston, Texas.

# A lack of obligation towards the countries – parties of the agreement – to severe punishment towards the offenders breaking the rules of the convention.

Overkirk's squadrons – 48 Dutch, supported on their left by 21 Danish – steadily advanced towards the enemy ( taking care not to prematurely tire the horses ), before breaking into a trot to gain the impetus for their charge.

* A Covenant lawsuit ( 6: 1 – 5 ): Yahweh accuses Israel ( the people of Judah ) of breaking the covenant through their lack of justice and honesty, after the pattern of the kings of Israel ( northern kingdom )

When the Æsir exclaimed that they were ready, Fenrir shook himself, knocked the fetter to ground, strained hard, and kicking with his feet, snapped the fetter – breaking it into pieces that flew far into the distance.

They could allow the drivers to settle the outcome by racing each other – and risk one or both cars breaking down or crashing.

In the 10th century Abd-ar-rahman III – from Hejaz, Arabian peninsula, grandson of the last caliph of Damascus, Syria – declared the Caliphate of Córdoba, effectively breaking all ties with the Egyptian and Syrian caliphs.

Both the biblical and Assyrian sources speak of a massive deportation of people from Israel and their replacement with settlers from other parts of the empire – such population exchanges were an established part of Assyrian imperial policy, a means of breaking the old power structure-and the former Israel never again became an independent political entity.

* 1972 – Watergate scandal: An 18½-minute gap appears in the tape recording of the conversations between U. S. President Richard Nixon and his advisers regarding the recent arrests of his operatives while breaking into the Watergate complex.

* 1952 – The ocean liner passes Bishop's Rock on her maiden voyage, breaking the transatlantic speed record to become the fastest passenger ship in the world.

* 2008 – In the town of Lake Delton, Wisconsin, Lake Delton drains as a result of heavy flooding breaking the dam holding the lake back.

* 1922 – Johnny Weissmuller swims the 100 meters freestyle in 58. 6 seconds breaking the world swimming record and the ' minute barrier '.

Other debilitating scandals included " Arms to Iraq " – the ongoing inquiry into how government ministers including Alan Clark ( also involved in an unrelated scandal involving the revelation of his affair with the wife and both daughters of a South African judge ) had encouraged businesses to supply arms to Iraq during the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s, in breach of the official arms embargo, and how senior ministers had, on legal advice, attempted to withhold evidence of this official connivance when directors of Matrix Churchill were put trial for breaking the embargo.

* 1648 – England's Long Parliament passes the Vote of No Addresses, breaking off negotiations with King Charles I and thereby setting the scene for the second phase of the English Civil War.

* 1944 – World War II: Allied forces launch the first of four battles with the intention of breaking through the Winter Line and seizing Rome, an effort that would ultimately take four months and cost 105, 000 Allied casualties.

Financial records show a normal royal household engaged in the usual feasts and pious observances – albeit with many records showing John's offerings to the poor to atone for routinely breaking church rules and guidance.

This ground breaking work was soon applied to other meteor showers – for example the 2004 June Bootids.

* In the video game Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines, when being asked if the Malkavian character knows the punishment for breaking the Masquerade, the player is given the option to reply " the comfy chair ".

* 1970 – Rhodesia declares itself a republic, breaking its last links with the British crown.

* 1944 – World War II: In an event later dramatized in the movie The Great Escape, 76 prisoners begin breaking out of Stalag Luft III.

Despite a 2 – 0 Boxing Day home win over Crystal Palace, the Saints ' poor form continued into the new year, where they were dubbed by the media as having a ' New Years Hangover ', entering 2012 with a 3 – 0 away defeat to South coast rivals Brighton, which saw talisman Rickie Lambert sent off with a straight red card.

By the time of the New Kingdom in Egypt ( 1567 – 1085 BC ), it had become a kind of talisman for the journey of the dead.

They may also depend on the dibias for herbs, charms and talisman – which may be used to overcome evil forces.

Image: Serusier-the talisman. JPG | Paul Sérusier ( 1864 – 1927 )

" A colleague is supposed to have told him to cheer up – at which point Montgomery is supposed to have said " I'm not talking about me, I'm talking about Rommel!

Electronic discourse refers to writing that is " very often reads as if it were being spoken – that is, as if the sender were writing talking ".

* 1972 – Watergate Scandal: U. S. President Richard M. Nixon and White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman are taped talking about using the Central Intelligence Agency to obstruct the Federal Bureau of Investigation's investigation into the Watergate break-ins.

* 1929 – In Old Arizona, the first full-length talking motion picture filmed outdoors, is released.

* 1927 – Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent talking movie.

* Silence – Pairs cannot work together if they are not talking to each other.

* June 23 – Watergate Scandal: U. S. President Richard M. Nixon and White House chief of staff H. R. Haldeman are taped talking about using the C. I. A.

He also took a great deal of pleasures from his experiences aboard ship, particularly when he had the honour of spending a month in the company of George Bernard Shaw ; he later described how he spent " many hours every day talking – the greatest treat of my life ".

Ionesco replied, " I have the feeling that these writers – who are serious and important -- were talking about absurdity and death, but that they never really lived these themes, that they did not feel them within themselves in an almost irrational, visceral way, that all this was not deeply inscribed in their language.

In talking to the proprietor, Juan ( Stanley Adams ), Smith learns about the hardships that the nuns, led by the unyielding Mother Maria, overcame to emigrate from Eastern Europe – over the Berlin Wall – only to barely scratch out a meager living on the farm that was willed to their order.

because the first one is that of logic … and as I cannot object to the premise " that all people have the right to eat ", I must defer to all the conclusions …. The second of the two compelling voices, of which I am talking, is even more powerful than the first, because it is the voice of hatred, the hatred I dedicate to this common enemy that constitutes the most distinctive contrast to communism and that will oppose the angry giant already at the first instance – I am talking about the party of the so-called advocates of nationality in Germany, about those false patriots whose love for the fatherland only exists in the shape of imbecile distaste of foreign countries and neighbouring peoples and who daily pour their bile especially on France ".

* Monster Eats Machine ( October 8, 1967 ) – A prototype version of Cookie Monster ( performed by Jim Henson ) finds a talking machine ( voiced by Jim Henson ) and eats it while it explains its various parts.

Comedian Steve Allen, who was in the audience, remembered that Harpo – after announcing his retirement from the stage – kept talking for several minutes to the theater audience about his career and how he would miss it all, and he kept verbally cutting Sherman off when he tried to speak.

For all that, in June 1961 Bray still decided to move and despite his recent marriage “ lmost every day went round, often spending a good part of the day or a large part of the evening there .” “ Oddly enough, this side of his life was well known about in Paris … natural reserve and well-developed sense of decorum were allied to his fear of giving offence to Suzanne .” Anthony Cronin notes that strangely – or perhaps not so strangely – during this time he was often to be found talking “ fervently and seriously about suicide .” Despite his unwillingness to do much about it he was clearly suffering badly from guilt.

Conducted entirely in the medium of Māori language, kōhanga reo is an environment where mokopuna aged 0 – 6 years old ( 6 being the age at which all New Zealand children are statutorily required to be enrolled at a registered school ), kaumātua and whānau spend time together talking, playing, praying and learning.

The show featured the voices of Marshall and Williams playing Laverne and Shirley in the Army ( much like they had been during their 1979 – 1980 season ) with a talking piglet Drill Sergeant named " Squealy " ( voiced by Welcome Back Kotter alum Ron Palillo ).

A member of the Darwish family on expressing dissent with Husseini's war objective in favour of negotiation was told by the mufti: idha takalam al-seif, uskut ya kalam – ' when the sword talks, there is no place for talking '.

The characters ' dialogue was obtained by taking tape recordings of everyday people talking about the comfort and benefits of the electrical appliances in their homes and then using extracts of these – complete with pauses, false starts, repetitions, hesitations and unscripted use of language ( such as " easily turn-off-and-on-able ").

We've been talking about doing something like taking a small chamber orchestra – 10 or 15 people – and tour with them.