Urning is a German term rarely used today, but it is the predecessor of the term homosexual, in this case referring to men. Coined in 1862 by activist and writerKarl Heinrich Ulrichs, he defined Urning as “the soul of a woman in a men’s body,” in the same way that the analogou...
Some people lose their knife or their mug. No, not me. I manage to lose an ENTIRE DRAGON?! [Hiccup encounters the Night Fury, bounded by his bola and takes out his knife. He is frightened and hides behind a rock, slowly approaching the fallen dragon.] Hiccup (cont.): Oh, wow. ...
Michael decides to reinvent himself as actress Dorothy Michaels and wins the part. What was supposed to be a short-lived role turns into a long-term contract, but when Michael falls for his castmate Julie (Jessica Lange), complications develop. Hoffman flawlessly merges with Dorothy, a feminist...
Quincy Jones, the Presidential election, he could be better at email, busking as a child in Europe, getting his first knife in Korea, moving to Amarillo, TX, working at Albertson's, train hopping, living in punk houses, falling in love at The Crystal Pistol, how he got fired from ...
more experienced hand — boiling water, knife work — as less exciting than “the fancy business at the end”, and makes it stick by suggesting that the kids “order the grown ups to do what you want done,” a verb choice the ever-...
Transfer spuds to stove. Cook until when you poke a chunk with a knife or skewer there is no longer any perceptible crunch. Drain spuds and mash, withordinaryorfancyhandheld masher. To prevent your masher from getting clogged with skin, pull a knife through the spud-chunks to slice the ski...
In the 1980s, a man named Konrad Kujau, a supposed collector of Nazi memorabilia, approached a German publishing company with 60 handwritten journals that Adolf Hitler purportedly wrote that had, according to Kujau, just been discovered in the wreckage of an airplane that had left Germany aft...
Early cultures used meteorites to craft weapons and jewelry long before anyone knew how to extract iron from ore.
“The British don’t come in and put a knife in your back, they finish you off with a warm embrace. They were fantastic at running systems on that basis which in developmental terms have proven to be enormously damaging. “Malaysia doesn’t get independence until 1957 when the Cambridge Un...
How to Replace This Trope Motivating a happily immoral character to change his ways isn’t the easiest task, but it doesn’t require sexual assault. What you choose may depend on what your character’s already done, but let’s look at several likely contenders. ...