I noticed while grocery shopping the other day that there was a sugary snack prominently labeled "Harvest Spice" -- apparently an attempt to continue using the same spice mixture while dodging the antagonism associated with how "pumpkin spice in everything" is perceived.
It's interesting that, while it's almost always described as being the most dangerous position in the bomber, the 8th AF statistics show that, for American heavy bombers, the most dangerous positions for being killed or wounded were, in order, the waist gunners, the bombardier, the navigator, and the tail gunner, with the ball turret gunner being the second safest position after the copilot.
Also, the popular perception of "average lifespan" in the Middle Ages and earlier being 30 or thereabouts didn't mean that people were becoming decrepit in their 20s; the average lifespan was driven by a truly horrific rate of infant and child mortality, where up to 40% or more of children would not survive to reach their first birthday. If you have a population of 100 people, and 50 of them die within their first year of life, while the remainder live until they're 60, the "average lifespan" is 30. There are still cultures in Africa where children do not receive names until they're five, because if they reach that age they can be reasonably assumed to survive to adulthood, and only then need a name.
Also look up the "Bellamy Salute", similar to the ancient Roman salute, which was taught as the appropriate way to salute the flag until the same salute was adopted by a jumped-up failed artist for his political party when he assumed control of Germany in the 1930s. The phrase "under God" was added in in 1954 by Eisenhower during the "Red Scare", when politicians were looking for a way to assert the moral superiority of US Capitalism over the "godless communists".
It's been decades, but I still miss Fanta Red Cream Soda; it may be just viewing through fallable memory, but the various red cream sodas I've tried since Fanta discontinued it never seemed as good.
It's an amusing historical artifact that "hawaiian pizza" was invented by a Greek restaurant owner in Toronto, and was called that because that was the brand name of the canned pineapple he used.
I think that the game would be improved by returning to a basket with a bottom, and requiring that the ball stay in the basket to score; this would remove all of the excesses of the people who fixate on slamming the ball into the basket as hard as possible, and increase the skill needed to make a free throw, or any other long-range shot. With a latch and spring mechanism on the basket bottom, the ball could be dumped out of the basket after a score, eliminating any need for a ladder to retrieve the ball.
Like the rest of the mall, the Cinnabon at Horton Plaza in San Diego is no more, but they had a unique delivery method -- they had a duct venting the baking-cinnamon-roll aroma from their ovens out and down over the walkway outside the store, so that you got a faceful of warm cinnamon and sugar just by walking by.
It's kind of surprising that, with the example of the Pacific Northwest sitting in their face, people still didn't recognize the risks of glacial lakes.Admittedly, there was no human record to flog it across newspapers, since it happened 12,000 years ago, but the collapse of the glacial dam that formed Glacial Lake Missoula and, separately, Glacial Lake Columbia, created the Channeled Scablands across Idaho, Washington, and Oregon. But I suppose if you don't live in the region, or watch the lectures given by Nick Zentner on the geologic history of the Pacific Northwest, all of that will just run under your radar.
Another fine example of mashups is Peter Schickele's "Eine Kleine Nichtmusik", a quodlibet on Mozart's "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik", which is played in its entirety with a wide variety of other pieces used as counterpoint Several recordings of the piece can be found on YouTube; Schickele attributes this under his name, rather than his creation P.D.Q. Bach, because some of the pieces used as counterpoint did not exist during PDQ's lifetime.
The use of technical jargon can speed communication between two people where the jargon compresses a lengthy description into a single term, but that depends on both of the people in the exchange having the vocabulary to compose and break down that jargon; if one of the people in the exchange doesn't understand the jargon, then they either lose comprehension or, if they interrupt to ask for clarification, slow the communication below what using the longer, simpler descriptions would have taken.
The Emancipation Proclamation was issued in 1863, but it only pertained to enslaved people in the Confederate states. Slave states like Missouri and Kentucky that remained in the Union were not included.
It's a little more nuanced than that; it specifically limited the emancipation to the parts of the United States (not recognizing the secession of the southern states) in rebellion against the federal government, so slaves in areas that had been occupied by the Union Army, and were therefore no longer in rebellion, were also excluded from emancipation. Also, in practical terms, the Emancipation Proclamation was political grandstanding, with Lincoln declaring slaves to be free in territory not under the control of the United States government, and over which he technically had no authority.
The phrase "under God" was added in in 1954 by Eisenhower during the "Red Scare", when politicians were looking for a way to assert the moral superiority of US Capitalism over the "godless communists".
Also, in practical terms, the Emancipation Proclamation was political grandstanding, with Lincoln declaring slaves to be free in territory not under the control of the United States government, and over which he technically had no authority.