Believe it or not, at least one person attempted to name their child “Usnavy” in the past few years, prompting the local government to formally ban the name. One can’t help but wonder if the parents were inspired by the name of the lead character in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony-winni...
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The number one spot goes to vanilla, a flavor that dates back toancient Mesoamerican civilizations. Vanilla beans are highly prized, and their popularity grew during the colonial era. A beloved classic, vanilla and all of its creaminess reign supreme. Data reporting by Lucas Hicks. Story ed...
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recorded the highest one-day-long rainfall event in the state at 10.5 inches. More recently, in June 2019, severe storms in central and southern Indiana caused floods that left thousands of households powerless. Several roads also had to be closed after there werereports of cars being stuck in...
of thousands of Indian children were forced to go to sleep on an empty stomach as the daily wage workers lost their livelihood and Prime Minister Narendra Modi imposed one of the strictest lockdowns in theSouth Asian nation.Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khanopted for "smart lockdown" that...
Record indicates that as early as in the 15th century those who couldn't see made a living as fortune tellers or chanters of Daoist texts. Seo Geo-jeong 徐居正, a prominent official in King Seongjong's court, noted: In noble households, people always hire five, six, or seven of those...
A pre-pandemic study sponsored by FoodShare estimated that one in eight Canadian households is food insecure. And despite CERB and other government programs, that ratio has grown grimmer as each wave of the virus has yielded more layoffs, closures and desperation. As executive director at FoodSha...
The nation's potable water network is no outlier in the state of dysfunction. Tap water runs only a few hours per day; most households are equipped with plastic rooftop reservoirs, and residents are often reduced to buying water from private trucks. Because neither the tap water nor the priva...
While domestic servants were common in family households, the custom reflected household task distribution and taught pupils about service from both ends of the relationship very much reminiscent of the relationship between squire and knight in the Middle Ages. Under school rules, fagging might entail...