* An egg white omelette is a variation which omits the yolks to remove fat and cholesterol, which reside exclusively in the yolk portion of an egg.

The first portion of this gland secretes the egg white, while the lower portion secretes a hard, horny, capsule to protect the developing egg.

The lower portion of the oviduct, or uterus, has a thicker layer of smooth muscle and contains the glands that secrete the egg shell.

Yet a third method, cited by Dr. David Christianus at the University of Giessen during the 18th century, was to take an egg laid by a black hen, poke a tiny hole through the shell, replace a bean-sized portion of the white with human semen, seal the opening with virgin parchment, and bury the egg in dung on the first day of the March lunar cycle.

The rear portion of the web forms a funnel-like retreat area where the spider and egg sacs are found.

The studio logos, opening credits and a brief portion of this film's opening scene is an " Easter egg " in the special edition DVD of Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Bush promoted the increase of de-regulation and investment options in social services, leading Republican efforts to pass the Medicare Act of 2003, which added prescription drug coverage to Medicare and created Health Savings Accounts, which would permit people to set aside a portion of their Medicare tax to build a " nest egg.

Egg cups have an upwardly concave portion to hold the egg and often include a base to raise the egg retaining portion and give stability, informally known as footies.

Additionally the steamed bun often has Chinese sausage and a portion of a hard-boiled egg inside.

Players do not need to gather every egg to complete the main portion of the game or gain access to new levels ; in fact, certain eggs can only be found by returning to the world at a later time.

* An enlarged basal portion called the ovary ( from Latin ovum meaning egg ), which contains placentas bearing one or more ovules ( integumented megasporangia ).

A portion of the song was also used in the " boss " music of the " Out of This Dimension " Easter egg stage in the game Star Fox for the SNES.

Pokey has been referenced twice in the Hitman series of video games: in Hitman: Contracts as an obscure, esoteric easter egg, and more directly in Hitman: Blood Money, where an overheard conversation between guards has one inviting the other to look at the comics on a computer.

In addition, Dorff has written responsa adopted by the Conservative Movement's Committee on Jewish Law and Standards on these and other topics: end-of-life medical issues ; artificial insemination, egg donation, and adoption ; assisted suicide ; donations of ill-gotten gain ; and violent or defamatory video games.

A virtual Easter egg is an intentional hidden message, in-joke, or feature in a work such as a computer program, web page, video game, television program, movie, book, or crossword.

Atari's Adventure, released in 1979, contained what was thought to be the first video game " Easter egg ", the name of the programmer ( Warren Robinett ).

Some computer and video game secret levels are triggered by an Easter egg.

In response to this, Robinett placed a hidden object in the game that would allow the player to reach a hidden screen which displayed the words " Created by Warren Robinett ," hence creating one of the earliest known Easter eggs in a video game, and the first to which the name " Easter egg " was applied.

In February 2007, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals released video of Mepkin Abbey's battery cage egg operation, showing debeaked hens crowded inside battery cages and a monk discussing the practice of forced molting.

* An Easter egg in the video game Riven shows the character of Gehn singing this tune.

* BackyardChickens. com Egg Candling-Great pictures and an egg candling video.

Dizzy, or Dizzy – The Ultimate Cartoon Adventure, was the first video game featuring the character Dizzy, an anthropomorphic egg.

Lucario's first video game appearance is in Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, where its pre-evolved form, Riolu, can be obtained as an egg from Riley.

In later versions of NUTS 3 there was a harmless and quite useful little easter egg that would do a terminal video test just by printing NUTS 3 VIDEO TEST with many permutations of colour and other ANSI code character modifiers and the NUTS tilde control code that a user could use to activate it ( e. g.: ~ FR for Foreground Red ).

A bonus map based on Japan's greatest swordsmith Masamune is present as an easter egg in this video game.

The video tells us that " it's the egg from Scotland ", and tells us more about their virtues.

There is an Easter egg on the DVD of a black-and-white video of Tim Hughes playing the song " Consuming Fire ".

Björk examining an egg in the music video.

After recording the video and then reading the book, Muller admitted to Björk that " Fried was the wrong egg!

Fast Food ( informally known as Fast Food Dizzy ) is an arcade style video game much in the design of Pac-Man featuring the video game character, Dizzy the anthropomorphic egg designed by the British born Oliver twins.

It was the development of the amniotic egg, which prevents the developing embryo from drying out, that enabled the reptiles to reproduce on land and which led to their dominance in the period that followed.

His head was exactly the shape of an egg, and he always perched it a little on one side.

There was an egg case inside the skull that had been laid by a tropical cockroach that could not possibly be found in Britain.

* Edwina Currie resigns as a junior Health minister for incorrectly claiming that millions of British eggs were infected with salmonella, stating that " most of egg production " was infected ( 1988 )

Dolly was born on 5 July 1996 to three mothers ( one provided the egg, another the DNA and a third carried the cloned embryo to term ).

She was created using the technique of somatic cell nuclear transfer, where the cell nucleus from an adult cell is transferred into an unfertilised oocyte ( developing egg cell ) that has had its nucleus removed.

This was first done for lysozyme, an enzyme found in tears, saliva and egg whites that digests the coating of some bacteria ; the structure was solved by a group led by David Chilton Phillips and published in 1965.

While the origin of Easter eggs can be explained in the symbolic terms described above, a sacred tradition among followers of Eastern Christianity says that Mary Magdalene was bringing cooked eggs to share with the other women at the tomb of Jesus, and the eggs in her basket miraculously turned brilliant red when she saw the risen Christ. The egg represents the boulder of the tomb of Jesus.

There are also parallels ( though no direct connection ) between the easter egg tradition and the celebration of Passover in Judaism, notable because in Christian tradition, Christ was celebrating Passover with his disciples on the evening before Good Friday.

The model of an egg was often used by Chinese astronomers like Zhang Heng ( 78-139 AD ) to describe the heavens as spherical:

The egg reference, however, was rather meant to clarify the relative position of the flat earth to the heavens:

Realizing the freighter was not fast enough with the egg attached, he runs down to the cables holding it.

The egg was white with variable brown streaking.

Female Great Auks would lay only one egg each year, between late May and early June, although they could lay a replacement egg if the first one was lost.

A single egg was laid on bare ground up to from shore.

The egg was ovate and elongate in shape, and averaged in length and across at the widest point.

The egg was yellowish white to light ochre with a varying pattern of black, brown or greyish spots and lines which often congregated on the large end.

The last pair, found incubating an egg, was killed there on 3 July 1844, on request from a merchant who wanted specimens, with Jón Brandsson and Sigurður Ísleifsson strangling the adults and Ketill Ketilsson smashing the egg with his boot.

An opposing school of thought, the ovists, believed that the future human was in the egg, and that sperm merely stimulated the growth of the egg.

For example, one popular Easter egg was in the Enchanter game, which involved collecting magic spells to use in accomplishing the quest.

They removed the object for closer inspection, joking that it was a dinosaur egg.