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Asian Food Primer: Nepali Food

by David Johnson Asian Foods Guide Common ingredients and popular dishes of various cultures. IntroductionEast Asia ChinaJapanKoreaMongoliaTibetPacific Region FijiHawaiiPapua New…

Brewer's: Corner

(A). The condition of the market with respect to a commodity which has been largely bought up, in order to create a virtual monopoly and enhance its market price; as a salt-corner, a…

Brewer's: Antipathy, of human beings

To Animals: Henri III. and the Duke of Schoenberg felt faint at the sight of a cat: Vanghelm felt the same at the sight of a pig, and abhorred pork; Marshal Brézé sickened at the sight of…

Brewer's: Refreshments

of public men, etc. BRAHAM'S favourite refreshment was bottled porter. BYRON almost lived on uncanny foods, such as garlic pottage, raw artichokes and vinegar, broths of bitter herbs,…

Stock Market Goes Decimal

Complicated fractions abandoned in favor of pennies by David Johnson Related Links Stock Market BasicsDow 101Most Active Stocks on the NYSETop Stocks by Market Value Dow Jones Industrial Average…

The Journals of Lewis & Clark: June 10, 1805

by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark June 9, 1805June 11, 1805June 10, 1805 Monday June 10th 1805. The day being fair and fine we dryed all our baggage and merchandize. Shields…

swine

(Encyclopedia) swine, name for any of the cloven-hoofed mammals of the family Suidae, native to the Old World. A swine has a rather long, mobile snout, a heavy, relatively short-legged body, a thick…

Punctuation: The Colon: What a Party Animal

The Colon: What a Party AnimalPunctuationPunctuation MattersPeriod, Question Mark, Exclamation Mark: The End of the LineThe Comma: A Major PlayerThe Semicolon: Love Child of the Comma and the…

Asian Food Primer: Indian Food

by David Johnson Asian Foods Guide Common ingredients and popular dishes of various cultures. IntroductionEast Asia ChinaJapanKoreaMongoliaTibetPacific Region FijiHawaiiPapua New…