:For the more general concept, see Mixed marriage A mixed-orientation marriage is a marriage in which one of the partners is heterosexual and the other is bisexual or homosexual. Motivations Some cite spiritual reasons for getting married. One married homosexual man said his "spiritual identity" had always been "marriage and family." The New York Times reported "On the whole these are not marriages of convenience or cynical efforts to create cover. Gay and bisexual men continue to marry for complex reasons, many impelled not only by discrimination, but also by wishful thinking, th...

A lavender marriage is a type of male-female marriage of convenience in which the couple are not both heterosexual and conceal the homosexual or bisexual orientation of one or both spouses. In gay slang, a heterosexual wife in a lavender marriage is referred to as a "beard". History Although there have been a number of prominent lavender marriages in history, the phrase itself came into colloquial use during the 1920s, when the imposition of morality clauses into the contracts of Hollywood actors caused some closeted stars to enter into marriages of convenience to protect their public repu...

Denisova hominins (), or Denisovans, are Paleolithic-Era members of the genus Homo that may belong to a previously unknown species of human. In , scientists announced the discovery of a finger bone fragment of a juvenile female that lived about 41,000 years ago, found in Denisova Cave in Altai Krai, Russia, a region also inhabited at about the same time by Neanderthals and perhaps modern humans. A tooth and toe bone belonging to different members of the same population have since been found. Analysis of the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) of the finger bone showed it to be distinct from the mtD...

Hemispherectomy is a very rare surgical procedure where one cerebral hemisphere (half of the brain) is removed or disabled. This procedure is used to treat a variety of seizure disorders where the source of the epilepsy is localized to a broad area of a single hemisphere of the brain, among other disorders. It is solely reserved for extreme cases in which the seizures have not responded to medications and other less invasive surgeries. Hemispherectomy is considered the most invasive surgical operation in use today, although not the most dangerous. History and changes Hemispherectomy w...