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But the guinea was not always valued at twenty-one shillings: from 1663 it varied from twenty shillings to thirty shillings; its value was not fixed at 21 shillings till 1717.
This localization is quite different from that reported for ejaculated human sperm where SPAM1 is found uniformly over the entire head surface [ 39 ] . Our finding suggests that SPAM1 undergoes redistribution on the sperm head during epididymal maturation in primates as it does in guinea pigs and mice [ 40 10 ] , albeit with a reverse order going from a regionalized to uniform pattern.
Even the formidable Duke of Edinburgh was heard to remark ruefully on an official visit to Papua New Guinea that it was very difficult to maintain a stiff upper lip when one was constantly being introduced as Whitefella Blongum Kween.
John Glenn's space shuttle ride as a medical guinea pig.
However, it was first used by criminals as a slang term for a guinea as long ago as 1688.