Ok, best conversation ever: we were in Guatemala and my friend asked one of the children what dogs say in Spanish. The little girl, like 6, responded, “Dogs don’t speak Spanish!” (She didn’t say, “Duh!” but that was the tone in her voice). Reply LetiDelMaron September 11, ...
The political theory ofsocialism, which gave rise to communism, had been around for hundreds of years by the time a German philosopher namedKarl Marxput pen to paper. Marx, also known as the father of communism, spent most of his life in exile in Great Britain and France. He and Engels ...
In the Old Testament book of Leviticus, the writers did a nice job of outlining the foods that are forbidden and permissible to consume. Off-limits were rabbits, pigs, pelicans, mice, turtles and weasels. Apparently our Biblical ancestors were a bit less choosy than we are today. Then in ...
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Christopher Columbus brought the creatures to the islands of the Caribbean. But the man chiefly responsible for pigs making it to what is now the mainland United States was Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto, who traveled across the southeast of the continent from Florida to Texas in 1539, bringi...
“You get hooked. Pigs at the trough,” said Alec Jones-Trujillo, who plays a character called the Gazillionaire in Spiegelworld’s very filthy and funny show Absinthe. Before that, Jones-Trujillo studied at clown school in San Francisco and then performed with the experimental troupe Wet the...
well, you feed just about anything to pigs. But you can feed wheat straw to cows. And frankly, you can pasturage cows on land where you can’t grow anything. They’re not like goats, that you can feed on three tin cans and an old log, but they still can digest hard vegetable ...
But the Caribean is next level. Mostly thanks to the mass colonialism of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. The British, Spanish and Dutch went a little wild. They were snapping up every island going. And it led to the situation we have today. Where some islands have declared independence...
3. If you want to say “I’m hungry” in Spanish, you can say ___. A.graciasB.holaC.tengo hambre 4. What will Monika’s family do this evening? A.Buy some tickets for a show.B.Go to a show in the city.C.Watch a show on the computer. 5. In the...