Remaining in a sitting position tends to lowers venous return, as blood pools in the veins of the legs. In a person who is at rest, about half of the circulatory blood will be present in the veins, which can cause real problems when that pooled blood tries to return up to the heart.
Vic Firth. Everett Joseph Vic Firth (June 2, 1930 â July 26, 2015) was an American musician and the founder of Vic Firth Company (formerly Vic Firth, Inc.), a company that makes percussion sticks and mallets.
Golden Slippers are the iconic image of Mummery. The unofficial theme song of the Mummers is âOh Dem Golden Slippers,â composed by James Bland in 1879. The Philadelphia Mummers Parade is the oldest continuous folk parade in the United States. The first formal, city-sponsored parade dates to 1901. But Mummery in Philadelphia began long before that. Mummers can be found throughout recorded history in ancient Egypt, in Greece, in Europe and elsewhere in the world.