He was using his body language and gesticulation to make a digresion and push the speach in a new direction for a brief amount of time. Digresion is commonly used in public speaking when one is giving and example, introducing new topic, bringin a guest in, and so on.
before mentioning the woman's name you can mention her achievements and attainments in a dramatic funny and mysterious way to raise everyone's interest.
They gave us the written word where before stories were word of mouth. Even though they wrote in Latin many of the root words are used today in the English language. The gave us measurements like mile, foot and inche. Also Roman numerals are still used, especially in regards to time-pieces. They gave us Christianity. They also introduced some spices and small animals like poultry.
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where something is or where something happened