While certain people may get relief, rheumatologists are careful to caution people with arthritis, particularly RA, who seek relief through chiropractic. Because in some conditions and circumstances, chiropractic techiques â especially the use of spinal manipulation â can actually worsen symptoms of arthritis.
Harlequin Books Limitedânow Harlequin Enterprisesâwas founded in 1949 in Canada as a small printer, packager, and distributor of books. In the nineteen-fifties, Harlequin started reprinting titles from Mills & Boon, a British publisher of popular romance novels. In 1972, Harlequin acquired Mills & Boon, and soon was synonymous with the romance novel. By 2012, romance novels were a 1.5-billion-dollar-a-year business that made up nearly seventeen per cent of fiction sales.
During the Renaissance, nobility sewed precious gems and gold sequins to their clothing in intricate patterns as a neon status symbol. Sequins were so popular that in the 1480s, Leonardo da Vinci sketched plans for a sequin machine that could punch sheets of metal into small, thin disks. According to Fashion: The Whole Story, it was after the discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb in 1922 and the ensuing fad for the âexotic Eastâ that Art Deco designers popularized the sequin, especially in performance.