The primary flavor found in any old-fashioned homemade root beer recipe is sassafras, a deciduous tree native to North America. The characteristic sweet flavor comes from the treeâs roots, thus giving us the name root beer. Incidentally, the treeâs leaves give us file powder which is the essential thickening agent in classic gumbo. Now of course, the primary flavor we associate with root beer is that of wintergreen, not of sassafras.
I was flipping through Rachel Pollack's 78 Degrees of Wisdom and she was comparing The Chariot (7) to Strength (8). She explains that The Chariot is 7 as that is the number of holes in the male body, and Strength is 8 as that is the number of holes in the female body (in both cases the nostrils count as only one hole).
A female has two Fallopian tubes. These tubes connect each ovary to the uterus. Each tube is 1 1/2 to 2 inches long in an adult female and about as wide as a piece of spaghetti. One end of the Fallopian tube has a fringed funnel that wraps around much of the ovary and scoops up a released egg or ovum.