"Just a second," she responded, walking towar d her brother's room."Look!" Trevor sounde d close to tears. "No dragon. " Trevor really wante d a toy dragon in the cereal(麦片) box, so he was frustrate d at finding nothing."Let's see what the box says," Fern suggested. "I ...
I knew why there was a spoon under the dining room table, why there was a smashed piece of cereal next to fake food on the floor, why a lone polar bear sat on the carpet waiting to be picked back up, and why there was a pirate ship in a bucket on the couch. It might not make...
When Theodosia was seventeen years old, and her father was about to become Vice President under Thomas Jefferson, (both had received the same number of votes in the electoral college while running for president), Theodosia married Joseph Alston, the governor of South Carolina. They honeymooned a...
I’m the only person I know who can manage to burn rice in a device that was LITERALLY INVENTED TO MAKE THAT AN IMPOSSIBLE FEAT, but I always manage to achieve the impossible. The real spoiler of the moment is that I might already have a taker for this poor neglected little rice cooke...
General Mills invented the cereal now known asCheeriosin 1941. Originally called “CheeriOats,” the cereal’s distinctive doughnut-shape was created by a special “puffing gun.” 1942: 75% of all white bread is enriched Archive Photos // Getty Images ...
It was not until the end of the last Ice Age 20,000 years ago that our human ancestors would have slowly transitioned to a cereal grass based diet coterminous with emergence of civilization, which is to say grain-based cultures formed around cities. 20,000 years is probably not enough time...
Breakfast wasn’t much cop btw. The receptionist took the oomph when I asked her for a cereal bowl for breakfast. All they had out were tiny ones for putting jam in. She brought three out! One for me, one for an American woman who had been standing around wondering how to go about ...
Hogan did. His likeness was plastered on posters, action figures, lunchboxes, vitamins, breakfast cereal and more. Rivalries with Andre the Giant, the Ultimate Warrior and Rick Flair kept wrestling fans coming back for more, but throughout it all, Hogan was the unquestioned star of the show...
Before they were best known as pitchmen for sugary cereal, Leprechauns were the Irish sprites who, according to legend, would grant three wishes to anyone able to catch him. Like many of the other wee people, they had a talent for mending shoes — though unlike gnomes, they would hide th...
Hogan did. His likeness was plastered on posters, action figures, lunchboxes, vitamins, breakfast cereal and more. Rivalries with Andre the Giant, the Ultimate Warrior and Rick Flair kept wrestling fans coming back for more, but throughout it all, Hogan was the unquestioned star of the show...