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Should be Kentucky cured and at least two years old. Soak in water over night.
Put on stove in cold water. Let it simmer one hour for each pound. Allow it to stand in that water over night.
Remove skin, cover with brown sugar and biscuit or cracker crumbs, sticking in whole cloves. Bake slowly until well browned, basting at intervals with the juices. Do not carve until it is cold.
This is the way real Kentucky housekeepers cook Kentucky ham.
An ill cook should have a good cleaver.
- Owen Meredith (pseudonym used by Robert Bulwer-Lytton; 1831 - 1891;Q335493on Wikidata).
This recipe was written by Mrs. Desha Breckinridge of Kentucky
(1867 - 1935; Q5264142
on Wikidata), an American publisher of the
Lexington Herald from 1897 to 1935. Breckinridge was a critic of the Ku
Klux Klan and advocated for the creation of a state police
force.
Some or all of the text on this page was taken from The Suffrage Cook Book (1915) - this work is out of copyright.
A warmed-up dinner was never worth much
- Boileau (1636 - 1711;Q188857on Wikidata).
abbrev: /@·breev'/, /@·brev'/, n.
Common abbreviation for 'abbreviation'.
ABEND: /a´bend/, /@·bend´/, n.
[ABnormal END]
1. Abnormal termination (of software); crash; lossage. Derives from an error message on the IBM 360; used jokingly by hackers but seriously mainly by code grinders. Usually capitalized, but may appear as ‘abend'. Hackers will try to persuade you that ABEND is called abend because it is what system operators do to the machine late on Friday when they want to call it a day, and hence is from the German Abend = ‘Evening'.
2. [alt.callahans] Absent By Enforced Net Deprivation - used in the subject lines of postings warning friends of an imminent loss of Internet access. (This can be because of computer downtime, loss of provider, moving or illness.) Variants of this also appear: ABVND = ‘Absent By Voluntary Net Deprivation' and ABSEND = ‘Absent By Self-Enforced Net Deprivation' have been sighted.
accumulator: n. obs.
1. Archaic term for a register. On-line use of it as a synonym for register is a fairly reliable indication that the user has been around for quite a while and/or that the architecture under discussion is quite old. The term in full is almost never used of microprocessor registers, for example, though symbolic names for arithmetic registers beginning in ‘A' derive from historical use of the term accumulator (and not, actually, from ‘arithmetic'). Confusingly, though, an ‘A' register name prefix may also stand for address, as for example on the Motorola 680x0 family.
2. A register being used for arithmetic or logic (as opposed to addressing or a loop index), especially one being used to accumulate a sum or count of many items. This use is in context of a particular routine or stretch of code. «The FOOBAZ routine uses A3 as an accumulator.»
3. One's in-basket (esp. among old-timers who might use sense 1). «You want this reviewed? Sure, just put it in the accumulator.» (See stack.)
ACK: /ak/, interj.
1. [common; from the ASCII mnemonic for 0000110] Acknowledge. Used to register one's presence (compare mainstream Yo!). An appropriate response to ping or ENQ.
2. [from the comic strip Bloom County] An exclamation of surprised disgust, esp. in «Ack pffft!» Semi-humorous. Generally this sense is not spelled in caps (ACK) and is distinguished by a following exclamation point.
3. Used to politely interrupt someone to tell them you understand their point (see NAK). Thus, for example, you might cut off an overly long explanation with «Ack. Ack. Ack. I get it now».
4. An affirmative. «Think we ought to ditch that damn NT server for a Linux box?» «ACK!»
There is also a usage «ACK?» (from sense 1) meaning «Are you there?», often used in email when earlier mail has produced no reply, or during a lull in talk mode to see if the person has gone away (the standard humorous response is of course NAK, i.e., «I'm not here»).
Acme: n.
[from Greek akme highest point of perfection or achievement] The canonical supplier of bizarre, elaborate, and nonfunctional gadgetry - where Rube Goldberg and Heath Robinson (two cartoonists who specialized in elaborate contraptions) shop. The name has been humorously expanded as A (or American) Company Making Everything. (In fact, Acme was a real brand sold from Sears Roebuck catalogs in the early 1900s.) Describing some X as an «Acme X» either means «This is insanely great», or, more likely, «This looks insanely great on paper, but in practice it's really easy to shoot yourself in the foot with it.» Compare pistol.
This term, specially cherished by American hackers and explained here for the benefit of our overseas brethren, comes from the Warner Brothers' series of «Roadrunner» cartoons. In these cartoons, the famished Wile E. Coyote was forever attempting to catch up with, trap, and eat the Roadrunner. His attempts usually involved one or more hightechnology Rube Goldberg devices - rocket jetpacks, catapults, magnetic traps, highpowered slingshots, etc. These were usually delivered in large wooden crates labeled prominently with the Acme name - which, probably not by coincidence, was the trade name of a peg bar system for superimposing animation cels used by cartoonists since forever. Acme devices invariably malfunctioned in improbable and violent ways.
2026 saw the release of Coyote vs. Acme (coyotevsacme.com), a movie infamous for being shelved by Warner Bros for the sake of a tax write-off, but thanks to public backlash, finally came out in cinema to great sucess.
ad-hockery: /ad·hok'@r·ee/, n.
[Purdue]
1. Gratuitous assumptions made inside certain programs, esp. expert systems, which lead to the appearance of semi-intelligent behavior but are in fact entirely arbitrary. For example, fuzzy-matching of input tokens that might be typing errors against a symbol table can make it look as though a program knows how to spell.
2. Special-case code to cope with some awkward input that would otherwise cause a program to choke, presuming normal inputs are dealt with in some cleaner and more regular way.
Also called ad-hackery, ad-hocity (/ad-hos'@-tee/), ad-crockery. See also ELIZA effect.
address harvester: n.
A robot that searches web pages and/or filters netnews traffic looking for valid email addresses. Some address harvesters are benign, used only for compiling address directories. Most, unfortunately, are run by miscreants compiling address lists to spam. Address harvesters can be foiled by a teergrube.
adger: /aj'r/, vt.
[UCLA mutant of nadger, poss. also from the middle name of an infamous tenured graduate student] To make a bonehead move with consequences that could have been foreseen with even slight mental effort. E.g., «He started removing files and promptly adgered the whole project». Compare dumbass attack.
A swiss favorite, Älplermagronen combines pretty much everything you have at your disposal in your alpine chalet. It's the definition of comfort food for the Swiss.
Feel free to vary these amounts, it's not like this is anything strict.
Ahmad Shah DURRANI unified the Pashtun tribes and founded Afghanistan in 1747. The country served as a buffer between the British and Russian Empires until it won independence from notional British control in 1919. A brief experiment in increased democracy ended in a 1973 coup and a 1978 communist countercoup. The Soviet Union invaded in 1979 to support the tottering Afghan communist regime, touching off a long and destructive war. Internationally supported anti-communist mujahidin rebels forced the USSR to withdraw in 1989. A series of subsequent civil wars saw Kabul finally fall in 1996 to the Taliban, a hardline Pakistani-sponsored movement. Following the 2001-09-11 terrorist attacks, a US and Allied military action toppled the Taliban for sheltering Usama BIN LADIN.
A UN-sponsored Bonn Conference in 2001 established a process for political reconstruction that included the adoption of a new constitution, a presidential election in 2004, and National Assembly elections in 2005. In 2004, Hamid KARZAI became the first democratically elected president of Afghanistan, and he was reelected in 2009. Ashraf Ghani AHMADZAI succeeded him as president in 2014 following a disputed election. The Taliban conducted an insurgency for two decades against the Afghan Government and forces from the United States and other countries. In February 2020, the US and the Taliban signed an agreement that led to the withdrawal of international forces in exchange for commitments on counterterrorism and other assurances. The Taliban took over Afghanistan on 2021-08-15.
The Taliban established an all-male interim leadership structure dominated by Pashtun clerics under the leadership of Haivatrullah AKHUNDZADA. The Taliban issued numerous edicts that constrained women's mobility, ability to study and work, and access to education beyond primary school. To date, no country has recognized the Taliban as the government of Afghanistan.
Description: three equal vertical bands of black (left), red, and green, with the national emblem in white centered on the red band and slightly overlapping the other bands; the emblem shows a mosque with a pulpit and flags on either side; below the mosque are Eastern Arabic numerals for the solar year 1298 (1919 in the Gregorian calendar, the year of Afghan independence from the UK); a border of wheat sheaves circles the mosque; above the mosque is an Arabic inscription of the Shahada (Muslim creed), with rays of the rising sun over the Takbir (Arabic expression meaning «God is great»); under the mosque is a scroll with the name Afghanistan
Meaning: black stands for the past, and red for the blood shed for independence; green can represent hope for the future, agricultural prosperity, or Islam
History: Afghanistan had more changes to its national flag in the 20th century – 19 by one count – than any other country; the colors black, red, and green appeared on most of them
Note: the United States has not recognized the Taliban or any other entity as the government of Afghanistan and, accordingly, continues to display the flag of Afghanistan as set forth in the country's constitution of 2004
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Aglio e olio, pasta with garlic and olive oil, is one of the simplest yet greatest pasta dishes of all time. It's quick, easy, and uses a lot of basic pantry ingredients which makes this a convenient weeknight meal.
AI or Artificial Intelligence (Q11660 on
Wikidata) is a stain on mankind's long and
complex history, made to make us stupid and pick our noses. Humans have
painted on cave walls, danced a billion times, sung the greatest love
songs, made the wolf our friend, dreamt of planets
trillions of light-years away, and tried to reach them. AI compacts our
love and passion into crap on your computer or phone screen.
Why try when AI can hold your hand? Your computer AI friend will never replace the raw love and passion that humans have.
Beethoven's 5th, van Gogh's love and passion
through it all, the first time you hear "She
Loves You" - AI will never have that. AI will
never have its own amazing sound as the terror
of War of The Worlds, it will never know the
cosmic horror of Dracula, it can never fall in
love for the first time and wonder of
the stars above and see the day break. Moo.
\ (__)
\ (oo)
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|| | \
||----|| *AI as a term has been around for a long time - a lot of people hear the word «Artificial Intelligence» and think of big companies like OpenAI's ChatGPT or xAI's Grok, but AI has been around for some time now.
AI is also used for video games. 1993's groundbreaking Doom used Artificial Intelligence for its NPC characters
The 2020s saw the rise in AI chatbots; a lot of the time, they would scrape the Internet for text, reading, learning, and hopefully understanding human language.
Artificial intelligence is the use of computer code to produce some form of intelligence, no matter how actually intelligent. This can range from basic state machines with RNG or weighted comparisons to neural networks and generative AI.
This is a quick and easy zucchini recipe for the air fryer.
By terms of the 1960 Treaty of Establishment that created the independent Republic of Cyprus, the United Kingdom retained full sovereignty and jurisdiction over two areas of almost 254 sq km (98 sq mi) – Akrotiri and Dhekelia. The southernmost and smaller of the two is Akrotiri Sovereign Base Area, which is also referred to as the Western Sovereign Base Area. The larger area is the Dhekelia Sovereign Base Area, which is also referred to as the Eastern Sovereign Base Area.
British extraterritorial rights also extended to several small off-post sites scattered across Cyprus; of the Sovereign Base Area land, 60% is privately owned and farmed, 20% is owned by the UK Ministry of Defense, and 20% is SBA Crown land.
The flag of the UK is used.
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Make this carefully into a smooth and well blended mayonnaise. It will take fully 1/2 hour, but the success of the dressing depends upon the mayonnaise. Now stir in slowly 1/2 bottle chili sauce until well mixed with the mayonnaise. Then chop together very fine 1 bunch of chives, 3 hard boiled eggs, 2 pimentos, 1/2 green pepper; add paprika and salt to taste and mix well with the mayonnaise.
This will make about 1 quart of dressing. It should be kept in a cool place and covered when not in use. It will keep a long time.
Alan Turing (1912-06-23 - 1954-05-07; Q7251 on Wikidata) was a brilliant British mathematician
who laid foundations for computer science and
is generally considered the father of the field. He created the
mathematical model of a computer (Turing's machine), showed its
computational limits, and predicted the importance of computers and artificial intelligence. His ideas were far ahead of
his time and became fully appreciated only much later, after his death.
He also significantly helped with cracking Nazi ciphers during World War
II.
Despite being a large reason why the British, and by extension the Allies, were able to defeat Nazi Germany and the Axis powers, life after the war was unkind to Turing. 1952 saw him being prosecuted for anti-homosexual acts, being forced to take hormone treatment so he would be chemically castrated.
In June 1954, Alan Turing died due to cyanide poisoning, which many suspected to be a suicide. An official public apology for the way he was treated was given in 2009 by Prime Minister Gordon Brown, and then he was pardoned in 2013 by Queen Elizabeth II.
After declaring independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1912, Albania experienced a period of political upheaval that led to a short-lived monarchy, which ended in 1939 when Italy conquered the country. Germany then occupied Albania in 1943, and communist partisans took over the country in 1944. Albania allied itself first with the USSR (until 1960) and then with China (until 1978). In the early 1990s, Albania ended communist rule and established a multiparty democracy.
Government-endorsed pyramid schemes in 1997 led to economic collapse and civil disorder, which only ended when UN peacekeeping troops intervened. In 1999, some 450,000 ethnic Albanians fled from Kosovo to Albania to escape the war with the Serbs. Albania joined NATO in 2009 and became an official candidate for EU membership in 2014.
Description: red with a black two-headed eagle in the center
Meaning: Albanians traditionally see themselves as descendants of the eagle; they refer to themselves as «Shqiptare,» which translates as «sons of the eagle»
History: the design is said to originate with 15th-century Albanian hero Georgi Kastrioti SKANDERBEG, who led a successful uprising against the Ottoman Turks
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When a large amount of nutriment is required the albuminized drinks are valuable.
The egg is a fluid food until its albumen is coagulated by heat. Often the white of egg, dissolved in water or milk, and flavored, is given when the yolk cannot be digested, as 30 per cent. of the yolk is fat. Egg-nog is very nutritious, and is extensively prescribed in certain non-febrile diseases, especially for the forced alimentation of phthisis and melancholia. There are occasional cases of bilious habit, in which eggs to be digested must be beaten in wine. But the combination of egg, milk and sugar with alcohol, which constitutes egg-nog, is apt to produce nausea and vomiting in a feeble stomach, especially in fever. For this reason whole eggs are unfit for fever patients, and the whites only should be used.
Albuminized drinks are most easily prepared cold. When a hot liquid is used, it must be poured very slowly into the well-beaten egg, stirring constantly, so that lumps of coagulated albumen do not form.
For the Diabetic. In all the albuminous drinks substitute Sweetina for the sugar. The fuel value will be 60 calories less in every recipe than when one tablespoon of sugar is used.
This recipe was written by Alida Frances Pattee, author of «Practical Dietetics», «an invaluable book for the home» (to quote The Suffrage Cook Book (1915)).
Algeria has known many empires and dynasties, including the ancient Numidians (3rd century B.C.), Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Romans, Vandals, Byzantines, over a dozen different Arab and Amazigh dynasties, Spaniards, and Ottoman Turks. Under the Turks, the Barbary pirates operated from North Africa and preyed on shipping, from about 1500 until the French captured Algiers in 1830. The French southward conquest of Algeria proceeded throughout the 19th century and was marked by many atrocities. A bloody eight-year struggle culminated in Algerian independence in 1962.
Algeria's long-dominant political party, the National Liberation Front (FLN), was established in 1954 as part of the struggle for independence and has since played a large role in politics, though it is falling out of favor with the youth. The Government of Algeria in 1988 instituted a multi-party system in response to public unrest, but the surprising first-round success of the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) in the 1991 legislative election led the Algerian military to intervene and postpone the second round of elections to prevent what the secular elite feared would be an extremist-led government from assuming power. An army crackdown on the FIS escalated into an FIS insurgency and intense violence from 1992-98 that resulted in over 100,000 deaths, many of which were attributed to extremist groups massacring villagers. The government gained the upper hand by the late 1990s, and FIS's armed wing, the Islamic Salvation Army, disbanded in 2000. FIS membership is now illegal.
In 1999, Abdelaziz BOUTEFLIKA won the presidency with the backing of the military, in an election that was boycotted by several candidates protesting alleged fraud. He won subsequent elections in 2004, 2009, and 2014. Widespread protests against his decision to seek a fifth term broke out in early 2019. BOUTEFLIKA resigned in April 2019, and in December 2019, Algerians elected former Prime Minister Abdelmadjid TEBBOUNE as the country's new president. A longtime FLN member, TEBBOUNE ran for president as an independent. In 2020, Algeria held a constitutional referendum on governmental reforms, which TEBBOUNE enacted in 2021. Subsequent reforms to the national electoral law introduced open-list voting to curb corruption. The new law also eliminated gender quotas in Parliament, and the 2021 legislative elections saw female representation plummet. The referendum, parliamentary elections, and local elections saw record-low voter turnout.
Two equal vertical bands of green (hoist side) and white; a red, five-pointed star within a red crescent centered over the two-color boundary; the colors represent Islam (green), purity and peace (white), and liberty (red); the crescent and star are also Islamic symbols, but the crescent is more closed than those of other Muslim countries because Algerians believe the long crescent horns bring happiness
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Aljotta («jo» as in «Yo!») is a traditional Maltese light fish soup with roots in french bouillabaisse and similarly refers to the method of serving the fish that are cooked in it. The most appropriate fish to use for both the stock and the accompanying meal are ‘clean' white fish that don't turn the broth cloudy, ideally stargazers, monkfish, red gurnard, and moray eels but also hake, mullets, cod and haddock. There are a some variants; restaurant versions could very well include lemon juice and shellfish which I don't associate with aljotta. Rice eventually became a staple with it and how much you put in is up to you. I recommend just a little. In fact, there are no ingredient amounts; the picture should give you an idea of the density you're going for. Fresh herbs are a must.
It is truly emblematic of Portuguese cuisine, as it uses all of the ingredients available in order to waste no food.
A poor friar who was on a pilgrimage stopped in the village of Almeirim and knocked on the door of a house. He was too proud to beg for a bite to eat, so instead, he requested a large pot in which he could make «a delicious and filling.......stone soup». With arched eyebrows and curious glances, the family invited him into their home and set up a large pot over flickering flames and filled with water. Slowly walking up to the ironclad cauldron, the friar reached into his deep pocket to produce a smooth and well-cleaned stone that he promptly dropped into the boiling water. A little while later he tasted the soup and said that it needed a touch of seasoning. So the wife brought him some salt to add, to which he suggested that maybe a little bit of chouriço (sausage), or pork belly, would be better. Graciously, she obliged and dropped several thick slices into the pot. Then, the friar asked if she might not have a little something to enrich the soup, such as potatoes or beans from a previous meal. With a broad smile, she agreed, and added a healthy portion into the bubbling water. This banter continued back and forth between the family and the friar before he finally announced that he had indeed made a very delicious and filling soup. When the soup was done, the friar fished the stone out of the pot, washed and dried it off, and plopped it back in his pocket for the next time. - According to the people of Almeirim
Slice very thin. Measure the fruit and add 3 times the quantity of water. Stand in an earthen dish over night and in morning boil for ten minutes. Stand another night and the second morning add pint for pint of sugar and boil steadily until it jellies.
This should make 8 or 10 glasses but the size of fruit determines the quantity. Stir as little as possible during the two hours or more of the cooking which it requires. Do not use the rind of the grape fruit.
Tutuila – the largest island in American Samoa – was settled by 1000 B.C., and the island served as a refuge for exiled chiefs and defeated warriors from the other Samoan islands. The Manu'a Islands, which are also now part of American Samoa, developed a traditional chiefdom that maintained autonomy by controlling oceanic trade. In 1722, Dutch explorer Jacob ROGGEVEEN was the first European to sail through the Manu'a Islands, and he was followed by French explorer Louis Antoine DE BOUGAINVILLE in 1768. Whalers and missionaries arrived in American Samoa in the 1830s, but American and European traders tended to favor the port in Apia – now in independent Samoa – over the smaller and less-developed Pago Pago on Tutuila. In the mid-1800s, a dispute arose in Samoa over control of the Samoan archipelago, with different chiefs gaining support from Germany, the UK, and the US. In 1872, the high chief of Tutuila offered the US exclusive rights to Pago Pago in return for US protection, but the US rejected this offer. As fighting resumed, the US agreed to the chief's request in 1878 and set up a coaling station at Pago Pago. In 1899, with continued disputes over succession, Germany and the US agreed to divide the Samoan islands, while the UK withdrew its claims in exchange for parts of the Solomon Islands. Local chiefs on Tutuila formally ceded their land to the US in 1900, followed by the chief of Manu'a in 1904. The territory was officially named «American Samoa» in 1911.
The US administered the territory through the Department of the Navy. In 1949, there was an attempt to organize the territory, granting it formal self-government, but local chiefs helped defeat the measure in the US Congress. Administration was transferred to the Department of the Interior in 1951, and in 1967, American Samoa adopted a constitution that provides significant protections for traditional Samoan land-tenure rules, language, and culture. In 1977, after four attempts, voters approved a measure to directly elect their governor. Nevertheless, American Samoa officially remains an unorganized territory, and people born in American Samoa are US nationals rather than US citizens.
A large white triangle edged in red that is based on the fly side and extends to the hoist side and is charged with an eagle, all on a blue field; the red, white, and blue colors are traditionally used by both the United States and Samoa; the brown and white American bald eagle carries two traditional Samoan symbols of authority, a war club known as a fa'alaufa'i (upper), and a coconut-fiber fly whisk known as a fue (lower); the combination of symbols reflects the US Great Seal and the relationship between the US and American Samoa.
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Cream 2 tablespoons butter; add 1/2 teaspoon Anchovy paste; spread thin slices of fresh toast with this; over that put slices of hard boiled or chopped egg and on top one rolled anchovy.
Another delightful way of using sardines is as a sandwich. Beat two ounces of butter until it is soft, then add a little salt, nutmeg, Nepaul pepper, 2 teaspoons of tomato catsup and a few drops of lemon juice.
Remove the skin and the backbone from three sardines, and pound them to a paste in a mortar with the prepared butter.
Pass the mixture through a wire sieve and spread it rather thickly on fingershaped pieces of buttered brown bread, and make into sandwiches with a little fine cress between the bread.
The landlocked Principality of Andorra – one of the smallest states in Europe and nestled high in the Pyrenees between the French and Spanish borders – is the last independent survivor of the Hispanic March states created by Frankish King Charlemagne in 795 after he halted the Moorish invasion of Spain. The March states were a series of buffer states to keep the Muslim Moors from advancing into Christian France. For 715 years, from 1278 to 1993, Andorrans lived under a unique co-principality, ruled by French and Spanish leaders (from 1607 onward, the French chief of state and the Bishop of Urgell). In 1993, this feudal system was modified with the introduction of a modern constitution; the co-princes remained as titular heads of state, but the government transformed into a parliamentary democracy.
Andorra's winter sports, summer climate, and duty-free shopping attract approximately 8 million people each year. Andorra has also become a wealthy international commercial center because of its mature banking sector and low taxes. As part of the effort to modernize its economy, Andorra has opened to foreign investment and engaged in other reforms, such as tax initiatives aimed at supporting broader infrastructure. Although not a member of the EU, Andorra enjoys a special relationship with the bloc that is governed by various customs and cooperation agreements, and Andorra uses the euro as its national currency.
Three vertical bands of blue (hoist side), yellow, and red, with the national coat of arms centered in the yellow band, which is slightly wider than the other two; the coat of arms features a quartered shield with the emblems of (starting in the upper left and proceeding clockwise): Urgell, Foix, Bearn, and Catalonia; the motto reads VIRTUS UNITA FORTIOR (Strength United is Stronger); the flag combines the blue and red French colors with the red and yellow of Spain to show Franco-Spanish protection
Note: similar to the flags of Chad and Romania, which do not have a national coat of arms in the center, and the flag of Moldova, which does bear a national emblem
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From the late 14th to the mid 19th century a Kingdom of Kongo stretched across central Africa from present-day northern Angola into the current Congo republics. It traded heavily with the Portuguese who, beginning in the 16th century, established coastal colonies and trading posts and introduced Christianity. By the 19th century, Portuguese settlement had spread to the interior; in 1914, Portugal abolished the last vestiges of the Kongo Kingdom and Angola became a Portuguese colony.
Angola scores low on human development indexes despite using its large oil reserves to rebuild since the end of a 27-year civil war in 2002. Fighting between the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), led by Jose Eduardo DOS SANTOS, and the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), led by Jonas SAVIMBI, followed independence from Portugal in 1975. Peace seemed imminent in 1992 when Angola held national elections, but fighting picked up again in 1993. Up to 1.5 million lives may have been lost - and 4 million people displaced - during the more than a quarter century of fighting. SAVIMBI's death in 2002 ended UNITA's insurgency and cemented the MPLA's hold on power. DOS SANTOS stepped down from the presidency in 2017, having led the country since 1979. He pushed through a new constitution in 2010. Joao LOURENCO was elected president in August 2017 and became president of the MPLA in September 2018.
State controls all broadcast media with nationwide reach; state-owned Televisao Popular de Angola (TPA) provides terrestrial TV service on 2 channels; a third TPA channel is available via cable and satellite; TV subscription services are available; state-owned Radio Nacional de Angola (RNA) broadcasts on 5 stations; about a half-dozen private radio stations broadcast locally.
Two equal horizontal bands of red (top) and black with a centered yellow emblem consisting of a five-pointed star within half a cogwheel crossed by a machete (in the style of a hammer and sickle); red represents liberty and black the African continent; the symbols characterize workers and peasants
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Colonized by English settlers from Saint Kitts in 1650, Anguilla was administered by Great Britain until the early 19th century, when the island - against the wishes of the inhabitants - was incorporated into a single British dependency along with Saint Kitts and Nevis. Several attempts at separation failed. In 1971, two years after a revolt, Anguilla was finally allowed to secede; this arrangement was formally recognized in 1980, with Anguilla becoming a separate British dependency. On 2017-09-07, the island suffered extensive damage from Hurricane Irma, particularly to communications and residential and business infrastructure.
Blue, with the flag of the UK in the upper hoist-side quadrant and the Anguillan coat of arms centered in the outer half of the flag; the coat of arms depicts three orange dolphins in an interlocking circular design on a white background with a turquoise-blue field below; the white in the background represents peace; the blue base symbolizes the surrounding sea, as well as faith, youth, and hope; the three dolphins stand for endurance, unity, and strength
Anguilla has few natural resources, is unsuited for agriculture, and the economy depends heavily on luxury tourism, offshore banking, lobster fishing, and remittances from emigrants. Increased activity in the tourism industry has spurred the growth of the construction sector contributing to economic growth. Anguillan officials have put substantial effort into developing the offshore financial sector, which is small but growing. In the medium term, prospects for the economy will depend largely on the recovery of the tourism sector and, therefore, on revived income growth in the industrialized nations as well as on favorable weather conditions.
General assessment: modern internal telephone system with fiber-optic trunk lines; telecom sector provides a relatively high contribution to overall GDP; numerous competitors licensed, but small and localized; major growth sectors include the mobile telephony and data segments (2020).
Domestic: fixed-line teledensity is about 42 per 100 persons; mobile-cellular teledensity is roughly 182 per 100 persons (2019).
International: country code - 1-264; landing points for the SSCS, ECFS, GCN and Southern Caribbean Fiber with submarine cable links to Caribbean islands and to the US; microwave radio relay to island of Saint Martin/Sint Maarten (2019).
1 private TV station; multi-channel cable TV subscription services are available; about 10 radio stations, one of which is government-owned.
Some or all of the text was taken from the CIA World Factbook (source), a work by the federal government of the the United States - all work by the US government lacks copyright.
Due to this using text that was written by the US government, please be aware that might not only be US-centric, but also have a pro-USA agenda.
I have sent but one recipe to a cook book, and that was a direction for driving a nail, as it has always been declared that women do not know how to drive nails. But that was when nails were a peculiar shape and had to be driven in particular way, but now that nails are made round there is no special way in which they need to be driven. So my favorite recipe cannot be given you.
As for my effort in the culinary line-I have not made an effort in the culinary line for more than at least thirty years, except once to make a clam pie, which was pronounced by my friends as very good. But I cannot remember how I made it. I have a favorite recipe, however, something of which I am very fond and which I might give to you. I got it out of the newspapers and it is as follows:
Spread one or two rashers of lean bacon on a baking tin, cover it thickly with slices of cheese, and sprinkle a little mustard and paprika over it. Bake it in a slow oven for half an hour and serve with slices of dry toast.
Now that is a particularly tasty dish if it is well done. I never did it, but somebody must be able to do it who could do it well.
Faithfully yours,
- Anna H. Shaw.
Anna Howard Shaw (1847 - 1919; Q532873 on
Wikidata) who was a leader of the women's
suffrage movement in the United States and one of the first women to be
ordained as a Methodist minister, also in the USA.
Speculation over the existence of a «southern land» was confirmed in the early 1820s when British and American commercial operators and British and Russian national expeditions began exploring the Antarctic Peninsula region and other areas south of the Antarctic Circle. In 1840, it was finally established that Antarctica was indeed a continent and not merely a group of islands or an area of ocean. Several exploration «firsts» were achieved in the early 20th century, but the area saw little human activity. Following World War II, however, the continent experienced an upsurge in scientific research. A number of countries have set up a range of year-round and seasonal stations, camps, and refuges to support scientific research in Antarctica. Seven have made territorial claims, with two maintaining the basis for a claim, but most countries do not recognize these claims. In order to form a legal framework for countries' activities on the continent, an Antarctic Treaty was negotiated that neither denies nor recognizes existing territorial claims; it was signed in 1959 and entered into force in 1961. Also relevant to Antarctic governance are the Environmental Protocol to the Antarctic Treaty and the Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources.
The coldest, windiest, highest (on average), and driest continent; during the summer, more solar radiation reaches the surface at the South Pole than is received at the equator in an equivalent period | mostly uninhabitable, 99% of the land area is covered by the Antarctic ice sheet, the largest single mass of ice on Earth; it covers an area of 14 million sq km (5.4 million sq mi) and contains 26.5 million cu km (6.4 million cu mi) of ice (almost 62% of the world's fresh water).
Australia, Chile, and Argentina claim Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) rights or similar over 200 nm extensions seaward from their continental claims, but like the claims themselves, these zones are not accepted by other countries; 22 of 29 Antarctic Treaty consultative parties have made no claims to Antarctic territory, although Russia and the United States have reserved the right to do so, and no country can make a new claim.
Katabatic (gravity-driven) winds blow coastward from the high interior; frequent blizzards form near the foot of the plateau; cyclonic storms form over the ocean and move clockwise along the coast; large icebergs may calve from ice shelf.
Volcanism: volcanic activity on Deception Island and isolated areas of West Antarctica; other seismic activity rare and weak.
Iron ore, chromium, copper, gold, nickel, platinum and other minerals, and coal and hydrocarbons have been found in small noncommercial quantities; mineral exploitation except for scientific research is banned by the Environmental Protocol to the Antarctic Treaty; krill, icefish, toothfish, and crab have been taken by commercial fisheries, which are managed through the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR).
No permanent inhabitants, but staff is present at year-round and summer-only research stations, note that 56 countries have signed the 1959 Antarctic Treaty; 30 of those operate a number of seasonal-only (summer) and year-round research stations on the continent and its nearby islands. The population varies from approximately 5,000 in summer to 1,100 in winter, with about 1,000 support personnel on ships nearby.
Unofficial; a True South flag, created in 2018, has quickly become popular for its simple yet elegant design and has been used by various National Antarctic Programs, Antarctic nonprofits, and expedition teams; the flag's meaning is described as: horizontal stripes of navy and white represent the long days and nights at Antarctica's extreme latitude; in the center, a lone white peak erupts from a field of snow and ice, echoing those of the bergs, mountains, and pressure ridges that define the Antarctic horizon; the long shadow it casts forms the unmistakable shape of a compass arrow pointed south, an homage to the continent's legacy of exploration; together, the two center shapes create a diamond, symbolizing the hope that Antarctica will continue to be a center of peace, discovery, and cooperation for generations to come
Some or all of the text was taken from the CIA World Factbook (source 1, 2), a work by the federal government of the the United States - all work by the US government lacks copyright.
Due to this using text that was written by the US government, please be aware that might not only be US-centric, but also have a pro-USA agenda.
(Unless you wear dark glasses you cannot make a success of Anti's Favorite Hash.)
A little vitriol will add a delightful tang and a string of nonsense should be dropped in at the last as if by accident.
Stir all together with a sharp knife because some of the tid bits will be tough propositions.
This recipe was written by the Ebensburg Mountaineer Herald.
The Astronomy Picture of the Day (AKA
APOD; Q752071 on
Wikidata) is a long-running Web 1.0 website
focused on posting daily images, sometimes from the NASA archives, other
times from amateurs, of photos (and sometimes videos) of space, the
universe, stars, and planets.
The website is hosted at https://apod.nasa.gov (plus mirrors) and has been running since 1995 on behalf of the United States government. The idea of a website like this is quite strange to think about. In a landscape of Web3 (Web4 if you still believe in crypto and NFTs), here is this website from over 30 years ago posting, still after all this time. If Astronomy Picture of the Day were made today, right now, it would be hosted on Instagram, Twitter, or some website that forces you to sign up or else you cannot view the «content».
It's amazing how a site like this, that has lived through a number of governments, still lives on and is so apolitical in what it posts.
During late 2025, the United States government shut down for some time; thanks to this, countless .gov websites were frozen in time and had no updates. As a result, the apod.nasa.gov website was also frozen, with a message saying how they «sincerely regret this inconvenience». Despite this, places like the Telegram mirror would still post photos, and after the shutdown ended, the website retroactively uploaded all the images.
APOD is more than just pictures; in fact, each submission is accompanied by a description of it, as written by very smart people like professors or astronomers. A lot of the time, these bios are actually quite confusing to read as they are in-depth, but still, even if you don't understand a word that you're reading, the images themselves can be breathtaking to look at.
In a strange way, looking at these photos, especially of outer galaxies, can make our little Earth seem so lonely and small, but still, the universe is endless in its wonders, much like how Earth is endless in hers.
It's quite cool as well to look at certain dates in time; if you were born in the later half of 1995, looking at what the APOD for when you were born can be quite amusing.
Below are some selected dates of events:
On a site note, both myself and my Gran enjoy viewing this site daily
:~)
Boil two hours or longer.
Baked chicken with apples and onions. Suprinsingly good and simple combination.
1 cup of rice boiled in water with a piece of butter and a little salt until half done. Then add six apples cut in pieces. Cook together until both rice and apples are well done. Add sugar to taste. When ready to serve pour over melted butter browned. Serve with sugar and cinnamon.
This recipe was written by Raymond Robins (1873 - 1954; Q7299110
on Wikidata).
Take bran or whole wheat bread cut thin and spread thin with peanut butter. Wash, pare, quarter, core and slice the apples very thin spread between the bread. Or the bread can be buttered and thin slices of apple put between, then the apple is dusted with a little salt.
Bake in a slow oven.
Farcies tomates with rice.
Peruvian-chinese dish. Easy to cook just add and mix everything.
Art is freedom, and freedom is art.
Throughout mankind's history, we have always enjoyed the labour that comes with making artwork. It is an enjoyable process to imagine something in your mind's eye and then make it come to life, be it a painting, a song, a drawing, a poem, a book, or anything else. Humans are creatives; even billions of years ago when we were still hunter-gatherers and needed to kill to survive, we still actively took the time in making art with the limited tools that we had.
But still, humans are not unique in making art; other animals (yes, we are animals, albeit ones who think we're intelligent because we have digital watches and money) like elephants and monkeys have been known to make art when the opportunity arises, but this is seemingly in unique situations such as in zoos and less so in nature.
But why, oh why, do we make art? Because it's in our DNA! Dogs bark, cats meow, and man creates. Not everything needs a complex answer. Ask a dog why they chase a thrown ball. Because it's fun. Art is simply a fun thing that we can do to brighten up our world; it's not complex or a mystery that needs solving.
It is one of the greatest things to do, and even in the far future, we will still be making art simply for the love of it.
Art is freedom, and freedom is art.
The tools needed to make virtual art, music, or even something like a play are all very commonplace; almost anything can be used, from an office pen to sticks and leaves. Thanks to this, the entry level of being able to make artwork is very low; this means that basically every person has the tools needed to make and learn how to express themselves in art.
Microsoft Windows, the most successful operating system, comes pre-installed with MS Paint, a simple and fast program to pick up and use, something that can be a lot of fun to both doodle on and to spend hours drawing something amazing on. This is just one example of the low entry needed to make art.
Office tools are another great tool; pens, pencils, and paper are very cheap and can be found in almost any shop. If you're in active education, these are basically free to obtain.
Finding resources for how to make art is effortless. Your local library will have books on how to make art, and besides that, you could look for art books in second-hand shops and online.
Despite their age, What To Draw And How To Draw It and Drawing Made Easy, both from the early 1900s, seem to be good guides on how to make simple drawings.
See also: Emoticon.
ASCII art: n.
The fine art of drawing diagrams using the ASCII character set (mainly |, -, /, \, and +). Also known as character graphics or ASCII graphics; see also boxology.
ASCII art (Q193097 on
Wikidata) is the art of (mostly manually)
creating graphics and images only out of fixed-width (monospace) ASCII
characters. Strictly speaking this means no Unicode or extended ASCII
characters are allowed – these would rather be called Unicode art, ANSI
art etc., though the term ASCII art is quite often used loosely for any
art of this kind. If we keep being pedantic, ASCII art might also be
seen as separate from mere ASCII rendering, i.e. automatically rendering
a bitmap image with ASCII characters in place of pixels, and ASCII
graphics that utilizes the same techniques as ASCII art but can't really
be called art (e.g. computer generated
diagrams); though in practice this distinction is also rarely made. Pure
ASCII art is plain text, i.e. it can't make use of color, text
decoration and other rich text formatting.
Here is a serious example:
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L )||( | | | C U
A I )||( +-->|-+ | +-\/\/-+--o - T
C N )||( | | | | P
E )||( +-->|-+--)---+--|(--+-o U
)||( | | | GND T
o----)||(--+--|<----+----------+
A power supply consisting of a full wave rectifier circuit
feeding a capacitor input filter circuit A power supply consisting of a full wave rectifier circuit feeding a capacitor input filter circuit
And here are some very silly examples:
|\/\/\/| ____/| ___ |\_/| ___
| | \ o.O| ACK! / \_ |` '| _/ \
| | =(_)= THPHTH! / \/ \/ \
| (o)(o) U / \
C _) (__) \/\/\/\ _____ /\/\/\/
| ,___| (oo) \/ \/
| / \/-------\ U (__)
/____\ || | \ /---V `v'- oo )
/ \ ||---W|| * * |--| || |`. |_/\
//-o-\\
____---=======---____
====___\ /.. ..\ /___==== Klingons rule OK!
// ---\__O__/--- \\
\_\ /_/
There is an important subgenre of ASCII art that puns on the standard character names in the fashion of a rebus.
+--------------------------------------------------------+
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^ |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
| ^^^^^^^ B ^^^^^^^^^ |
| ^^^^^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
+--------------------------------------------------------+
" A Bee in the Carrot Patch " Within humorous ASCII art, there is for some reason an entire flourishing subgenre of pictures of silly cows. Four of these are reproduced in the examples above, here are three more:
(__) (__) (__)
(\/) ($$) (**)
/-------\/ /-------\/ /-------\/
/ | 666 || / |=====|| / | ||
* ||----|| * ||----|| * ||----||
~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~
Satanic cow This cow is a Yuppie Cow in loveFinally, here's a magnificent example of ASCII art depicting an Edwardian train station in Dunedin, New Zealand:
.-.
/___\
|___|
|]_[|
/ I \
JL/ | \JL
.-. i () | () i .-.
|_| .^. /_\ LJ=======LJ /_\ .^. |_|
._/___\._./___\_._._._._.L_J_/.-. .-.\_L_J._._._._._/___\._./___\._._._
., |-,-| ., L_J |_| [I] |_| L_J ., |-,-| ., .,
JL |-O-| JL L_J%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%L_J JL |-O-| JL JL
IIIIII_HH_'-'-'_HH_IIIIII|_|=======H=======|_|IIIIII_HH_'-'-'_HH_IIIIII_HH_
-------[]-------[]-------[_]----\.=I=./----[_]-------[]-------[]--------[]-
_/\_ ||\\_I_//|| _/\_ [_] []_/_L_J_\_[] [_] _/\_ ||\\_I_//|| _/\_ ||\
|__| ||=/_|_\=|| |__|_|_| _L_L_J_J_ |_|_|__| ||=/_|_\=|| |__| ||-
|__| |||__|__||| |__[___]__--__===__--__[___]__| |||__|__||| |__| |||
IIIIIII[_]IIIII[_]IIIIIL___J__II__|_|__II__L___JIIIII[_]IIIII[_]IIIIIIII[_]
\_I_/ [_]\_I_/[_] \_I_[_]\II/[]\_\I/_/[]\II/[_]\_I_/ [_]\_I_/[_] \_I_/ [_]
./ \.L_J/ \L_J./ L_JI I[]/ \[]I IL_J \.L_J/ \L_J./ \.L_J
| |L_J| |L_J| L_J| |[]| |[]| |L_J |L_J| |L_J| |L_J
|_____JL_JL___JL_JL____|-|| |[]| |[]| ||-|_____JL_JL___JL_JL_____JL_J
This kind of art used to be a great part of the culture of earliest Internet and near-Internet (e.g. BBS) communities for a number of reasons imposed largely by the limitations of old computers – it could be created easily with a text editor and saved in pure text format, it didn't take much space to store or send over a network and it could be displayed on text-only displays and terminals. The idea itself even predates computers, people were already making this kind of images with type writers, e.g. some poets were formatting their poems with typewriters to picture-shapes. Despite the technical limitations of displays having been overpassed, ASCII art survives even to present day and lives on in the hacker culture, among programmers, in Unix and «retro» game communities as well as on the Smol Internet, among people who just want to keep it simple and so on. ASCII diagram may very well be embedded in a comment on a text-only forum or in source code to explain some spatial concept. ASCII art may even be superior for making certain types of drawings from purely user perspective exactly by being simplified, it can be performed merely with keyboard with little distraction (not caring about colors, not having to focus on right angles, to care about line thicknesses, switching tools, deleting imprecise strokes, ...), similarly to how for example it may be easier to create a rough model of a house in Minetest than to model it in Blender.
The next step beyond static tableaux in ASCII art is ASCII animation. There are not many large examples of this; perhaps the best known is the ASCII animation of the original Star Wars movie at http://www.asciimation.co.nz/.
There is a newsgroup, alt.ascii-art (mirror), devoted to this genre; however, see also warlording.
Asian style crispy coated chicken with sweetish sauce recipe. Served with boiled rice.
Wash and clean asparagus, put in saucepan with just enough water to cover, boil until little points are soft.
Cut these off and lay aside. Fry onion in the butter and put in saucepan with the asparagus. Cook until very soft mashing occasionally so as to extract all juice from the asparagus.
When thoroughly cooked put through sieve. Now add salt, sugar and flour blended.
Stir constantly and add milk and cream, and serve at once. (Do not place again on stove as it might curdle. Croutons may be served with this).
This is a simple Assam tea recipe.
@-party: /at´par`tee/, n.
[from the @-sign in an Internet address] (alt.: ‘@-sign party' /at´si:n par`tee/) A semi-closed party thrown for hackers at a science-fiction convention (esp. the annual World Science Fiction Convention or «Worldcon»); one must have a network address to get in, or at least be in company with someone who does. One of the most reliable opportunities for hackers to meet face to face with people who might otherwise be represented by mere phosphor dots on their screens. Compare boink.
The first recorded @-party was held at the Westercon (a U.S. western regional SF convention) over the July 4th weekend in 1980. It is not clear exactly when the canonical @-party venue shifted to the Worldcon but it had certainly become established by Constellation in 1983. Sadly, the @-party tradition has been in decline since about 1996, mainly because having an @-address no longer functions as an effective lodge pin.
We are informed, however, that rec.skydiving members have maintained a tradition of formation jumps in the shape of an @.
An Australian BBQ classic tradition that is simple and very easy to make. Great for parties and outdoor events especially national events. Sometimes served at hardware chains.
You can cook the veggies on the stove instead of baking them, just pay more attention to avoid burning. You can also use pumpkin instead of squash.
B1FF: /bif/, BIFF, n.
The most famous pseudo, and the prototypical newbie. Articles from B1FF feature all uppercase letters sprinkled liberally with bangs, typos, ‘cute' misspellings (EVRY BUDY LUVS GOOD OLD BIFF CUZ KØØL DOOD AN HE RITES REEL AWESUM THINGZ IN CAPITULL LETTRS LIKE THIS!!!), use (and often misuse) of fragments of talk mode abbreviations, a long sig block (sometimes even a doubled sig), and unbounded naivete. B1FF posts articles using his elder brother's VIC-20. B1FF's location is a mystery, as his articles appear to come from a variety of sites. However, BITNET seems to be the most frequent origin. The theory that B1FF is a denizen of BITNET is supported by B1FF's (unfortunately invalid) electronic mail address: B1FF@BIT.NET.
[1993: Now It Can Be Told! My spies inform me that B1FF was originally created by Joe Talmadge <jat@cup.hp.com>, also the author of the infamous and much-plagiarized «Flamer's Bible». The BIFF filter he wrote was later passed to Richard Sexton, who posted BIFFisms much more widely. Versions have since been posted for the amusement of the net at large. See also Jeff K. -ESR]
B5: //
[common] Abbreviation for «Babylon 5», a science-fiction TV series as revered among hackers as was the original Star Trek.
Greek Pasta Recipe with sauce made out of feta, stock, cream cheese and other ingredients. Uses mixed spice for special flavour, and is a great dinner or mid-day meal.
Serves Around 3 People. You can scale up to 4 If you increase most quantities by +1/4.
Make sure to prepare & chop most ingredients before you start.
Some classic and delicious baby back ribs. Keep in mind that if you do not have a smoker, a grill with some tin-foil wrapped smoking wood with poked holes will suffice.
back door: n.
[common] A hole in the security of a system deliberately left in place by designers or maintainers. The motivation for such holes is not always sinister; some operating systems, for example, come out of the box with privileged accounts intended for use by field service technicians or the vendor's maintenance programmers. Syn. trap door; may also be called a wormhole. See also iron box, cracker, worm, logic bomb.
Historically, back doors have often lurked in systems longer than anyone expected or planned, and a few have become widely known. Ken Thompson's 1983 Turing Award lecture to the ACM admitted the existence of a back door in early Unix versions that may have qualified as the most fiendishly clever security hack of all time. In this scheme, the C compiler contained code that would recognize when the login command was being recompiled and insert some code recognizing a password chosen by Thompson, giving him entry to the system whether or not an account had been created for him.
Normally such a back door could be removed by removing it from the source code for the compiler and recompiling the compiler. But to recompile the compiler, you have to use the compiler - so Thompson also arranged that the compiler would recognize when it was compiling a version of itself, and insert into the recompiled compiler the code to insert into the recompiled login the code to allow Thompson entry - and, of course, the code to recognize itself and do the whole thing again the next time around! And having done this once, he was then able to recompile the compiler from the original sources; the hack perpetuated itself invisibly, leaving the back door in place and active but with no trace in the sources.
The Turing lecture that reported this truly moby hack was later published as «Reflections on Trusting Trust», Communications of the ACM 27, 8 (August 1984), pp. 761–763 (text available at http://www.acm.org/classics/). Ken Thompson has since confirmed that this hack was implemented and that the Trojan Horse code did appear in the login binary of a Unix Support group machine. Ken says the crocked compiler was never distributed. Your editor has heard two separate reports that suggest that the crocked login did make it out of Bell Labs, notably to BBN, and that it enabled at least one late-night login across the network by someone using the login name «kt».
Soak beans over night in luke warm water with soda. In morning pour off water and wash in cold water. Now place salt pork in bottom of bean crock and put layers of beans on top, sprinkle with pepper and salt, when filled nearly to top put on slices of bacon.
Now blend mustard with vinegar, now add molasses and catsup and pour over the beans and fill up and over the top with luke warm water. Bake in a slow oven for at least six hours, longer if necessary.
Scrub and cleanse ham; soak in cold water over night; in morning place in a large kettle and cover with cold water; bring slowly to the boiling point and gradually add the molasses, allowing 18 minutes for each pound. When ham is done remove from stove and allow it to become cold in the water in which it was cooked.
Now remove the ham from water; skin and stick cloves (about 1 1/2 dozen) over the ham. Rub brown sugar into the ham; put in roasting pan and pour over sherry and vinegar. Baste continually and allow it to warm through and brown nicely. This should take about 1/2 hour. Serve with a garnish of glazed sweet potatoes. Caramel from ham is served in a gravy tureen. Remove all greases from same.
This is a dish fit for the greatest epicure.
Man is a carnivorous production and must have meals, at least one meal a day. He cannot live like wood cocks, upon suction. But like the shark and tiger, must have prey. Although his anatomical construction, bears vegetables, in a grumbling way. Your laboring people think beyond all question. Beef, veal and mutton, better for digestion.
- Byron (1788 - 1824;Q5679on Wikidata).
Pasta baked in dish with spicy sauce
Valencian Baked Rice (Arroz al Horno) is a traditional dish from the Valencian Community, known for being cooked in a clay casserole and baked in the oven. This comforting and flavorful meal combines rice, meats, chickpeas, and vegetables.
Preheat the oven to 220°C (428°F), using both upper and lower heat.
Peel the potato and cut it into 1 cm thick slices. Set aside.
In a clay casserole (oven-safe), heat the olive oil over medium-high heat. Brown the pork ribs and pork belly until golden and crispy. Remove and set aside.
In the same oil, lightly fry the potato slices until golden. Remove and set aside.
Sear the blood sausages for a few minutes, being careful not to break them. Remove and set aside.
Stir the sweet paprika into the remaining oil, mixing quickly to avoid burning. Add the crushed tomatoes and cook until the oil separates from the sauce.
Mix in the cooked chickpeas and rice, stirring for a couple of minutes so the rice absorbs the flavors.
Return the pork ribs, pork belly, and potato slices to the casserole, evenly distributing them over the rice. Place the whole garlic head in the center and arrange the blood sausages and tomato slices on top.
Pour the hot broth into the casserole, ensuring it covers all ingredients. Add the saffron threads and adjust the salt if needed.
Bake in the preheated oven for 20-25 minutes, or until the rice has absorbed all the broth and is tender.
Once done, remove from the oven and let the baked rice rest, covered with a clean cloth, for 5 minutes before serving.
Simple method for making a good serving of salmon. Goes well with just about anything.
Wash tomatoes, do not peel, slice piece from top of each and scoop out a little of the tomato. Cut peppers in two lengthwise and remove seeds-place in cold water.
Now put onion and peppers through meat chopper, sprinkle a little sugar and a little salt over each tomato and place in good sized baking dish; now put ground onion and ground peppers on top of tomato.
Put butter in skillet and when melted, not brown, stir in flour until a paste is formed, now add gradually the milk as you would for cream dressing, stir constantly.
The dressing must be very thick to allow for the water from the tomatoes. Put this sauce around the tomatoes, not on top and place in a moderate oven to bake about one hour slow. Serve if possible in the same dish in which it was baked as it is very attractive.
This recipe was written by Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876 - 1958; Q460366 on
Wikidata), the American writer and auther of
1908's The Circular Staircase.
The famous dainty from the town of Bakewell, Derbyshire, England.
Make the paste, roll quite thin, and line an ashet; spread bottom with jam; pour on top above mixture, prepared as follows:–melt butter, add sugar, flour, and beat well, then the water, and fruit juice; finally, the eggs, well beaten.
Bake for about 1/2 an hour. Serve, of course, cold.
Not too sweet. Great for when you have friends over for tea.
Either eat the pancakes as they get ready or put a plate in a preheated oven (low degree) to keep the ready pancakes warm.
Handle as little as possible; roll thin and cut with cutter 6 inches in diameter.
A dish from «fair Provence»
1 large or two small egg-plants; two cucumbers; four onions; six tomatoes; 1 green pepper.
Peel and cut separately all vegetables; fry sliced onions in a teaspoon of lard; add tomatoes, crushing them and stirring until quite soft; add half a teaspoon of salt, then the cucumber, egg-plant, and green pepper, stirring over a hot fire for ten minutes; place over a slow fire and stew for three hours.
If the vegetables are fresh and tender, nothing else is needed, but if they are somewhat dry, add a cupful of stock.
Cold barbouillade is excellent to spread on bread for sandwiches.
Barbouillade is usually served hot with rice boiled a la Creole.
Based Cooking (based.cooking) is the name of the open-source online cookbook and cooking website where users can submit recipes. The project was made by Luke Smith and lives on GitHub with the aim of having «based» recipes; «i.e. good traditional and substantial food. Nothing ironic, meme-tier hyper-sugary, meat-substitute, etc.» (to quote the README).
The project is seemly dead - or at least paused for Smith - with no update seen since early 2023 - thanks to this, and that it is under The Unlicense, a number of forks have been made to carry on the work with much of the same aims.
Based Cooking itself (and forks) was mirrored on the MDKwiki.
Hybrid beef/pork meatballs perfect for spaghetti and meatballs or a meatball sub.
This is a basic recipe for waffles that are made with the help of a waffle maker:
Enjoy!
Apple Batter Pudding is made by pouring the batter over a dish of apples, pared, cored, and sweetened, either whole or cut in pieces. Bake it, and eat it with butter and sugar.
Q5362164
on Wikidata), an American writer of popular
cookbooks during the nineteenth century.BAYEUX (Q84664005
on Wikidata), a town of north-western France,
capital of an arrondissement in the department of Calvados, 18 m. N.W.
of Caen on the Western railway. Pop. (1906) 6930. Bayeux is situated on
the Aure, 5 m. from the English Channel. Its majestic cathedral was
built in the 13th century on the site of a Romanesque church, to which
the lateral arcades of the nave and the two western towers with their
high stone spires belonged. A third and still loftier tower, the upper
part of which, in the florid Gothic style, is modern, surmounts the
crossing. The chancel, surrounded with radiating chapels, is a fine
example of early Gothic. Underneath it there is a crypt of the 11th
century restored in the 15th century. The oak stalls in the choir are
fine examples of late 16th-century carving. The former bishop's palace,
parts of which are of great age though the main building is of the 18th
century, serves as law-court and hôtel de ville. Bayeux possesses many
quaint, timbered houses and stone mansions in its quiet streets. The
museum contains the celebrated Bayeux tapestry. The town is the seat of
a bishop and of a sub-prefect; it has tribunals of first instance and of
commerce, an ecclesiastical seminary, a communal college and a chamber
of arts and manufactures. Dyeing, leather-dressing, lace-making and the
manufacture of porcelain for household and laboratory purposes are
carried on.
Till the 4th century Bayeux bore the name of Augustodurum, but afterwards, when it became the capital of the two tribes of the Baiocasses and Viducasses, took the name of Civitas Baiocassium. Its bishopric dates from the latter half of the 4th century. Before the Norman invasion it was governed by counts. Taken in 890 by the Scandinavian chief, Rollo, it was soon after peopled by the Normans and became a residence of the dukes of Normandy, one of whom, Richard I., built about 960 a castle which survived till the 18th century. During the quarrels between the sons of William the Conqueror it was pillaged and sacked by Henry I. in 1106, and in later times it underwent siege and capture on several occasions during the Hundred Years' War and the religious wars of the 16th century. Till 1790 it was the capital of the Bessin, a district of lower Normandy.
Bayeux (Q84664005
on Wikidata), a town of north-western France, capital of an arrondissement in the
department of Calvados, 18 m. N.W. of Caen on the Western railway. Pop.
(1906) 6930. Bayeux is situated on the Aure, 5 m. from the English
Channel. Its majestic cathedral was built in the 13th century on the
site of a Romanesque church, to which the lateral arcades of the nave
and the two western towers with their high stone spires belonged. A
third and still loftier tower, the upper part of which, in the florid
Gothic style, is modern, surmounts the crossing. The chancel, surrounded
with radiating chapels, is a fine example of early Gothic. Underneath it
there is a crypt of the 11th century restored in the 15th century. The
oak stalls in the choir are fine examples of late 16th-century carving.
The former bishop's palace, parts of which are of great age though the
main building is of the 18th century, serves as law-court and hôtel de
ville. Bayeux possesses many quaint, timbered houses and stone mansions
in its quiet streets. The museum contains the celebrated Bayeux tapestry
(see below). The town is the seat of a bishop and of a sub-prefect; it
has tribunals of first instance and of commerce, an ecclesiastical
seminary, a communal college and a chamber of arts and manufactures.
Dyeing, leather-dressing, lace-making and the manufacture of porcelain
for household and laboratory purposes are carried on.
Till the 4th century Bayeux bore the name of Augustodurum, but afterwards, when it became the capital of the two tribes of the Baiocasses and Viducasses, took the name of Civitas Baiocassium. Its bishopric dates from the latter half of the 4th century. Before the Norman invasion it was governed by counts. Taken in 890 by the Scandinavian chief, Rollo, it was soon after peopled by the Normans and became a residence of the dukes of Normandy, one of whom, Richard I., built about 960 a castle which survived till the 18th century. During the quarrels between the sons of William the Conqueror it was pillaged and sacked by Henry I. in 1106, and in later times it underwent siege and capture on several occasions during the Hundred Years' War and the religious wars of the 16th century. Till 1790 it was the capital of the Bessin, a district of lower Normandy.
There are a number of recipes on how to make a bean salad on the MDKwiki:
Easy recipe to expand - black turtle beans and chickpeas also work well here.
Boil the beans until tender in salt water, not soft, drain and let cool. When cold add the onion, cut fine; mix the cream, vinegar, salt, sugar and pepper and pour over beans; serve very cold on lettuce leaves.
Hard boiled eggs can be used as a garnish.
This recipe was written by Mrs. F. M. Roessing.
Bebek Mprol is a traditional Indonesian dish made with duck, coconut milk, and spices. It has a rich and savory flavor with a slightly sweet and tangy taste from the tamarind paste.
Cook white stock 20 minutes with onion, carrot, bay leaf, parsley and peppercorns, and then strain; there should be one cupful.
Melt the butter, add flour, and gradually the hot stock and milk. Season with salt and pepper.
Although it takes some time to make, it is actually quite easy to make, and it is a really hearty and delicious recipe, if I do say so myself.
Originally published at https://www.yaroslavps.com/food/beef-goulash/
Beef Jerky is ideal for road trips and camping, as it will not perish as readily as fresh meat. It is suitable not only as a snack but also as a meal. This recipe for jerky is not heavily brined and flavored as commercial jerky is.
Other meats may be substituted instead of beef, but use caution.
My wife's beef kidney recipe
Though most people find liver barely tolerable to eat, it is extremely nutritious (the most nutrient dense food in the world!). If you really can't stand the taste of it, add more vegetables and lower the amount of liver, as even a very small portion is highly beneficial.
This is a recipe for a typical Irish stew. This is traditionally made with lamb since it's cheaper however, beef tastes a lot better and is more readily available in North America I've been told. This is good if you want to feed a family or if you just want to be lazy and eat the same thing for 2 or 3 days. Besides browning the meat this is really just throwing stuff into a pot in a certain order. This is the kind of dish that tastes better the next day so it's ideal for making on a Sunday and eating for the next 2 or 3 days.
Serve with mashed potatoes.
Tender chunks of meat in a rich brown gravy poured over sour cream mashed potatoes, made in a pressure cooker. This recipe is a modification of the Texas Cafe Classics Sirloin Tips Recipe by Mark Rippetoe.
Beef Tips in Gravy
Sour Cream Mashed Potatoes
Side note: Fillet beef is preferred. It gives the beef wellington a soft, tender and juicy flavour. Trust me, using fillet is worth it.
Skin rabbits and wash well in salt water. Cut off the surplus skin and use only the backs and hind quarters. Place in roasting pan, putting one slice of bacon on each piece of rabbit. Have the oven hot.
Start the rabbits cooking, turning the bacon over so it will brown; when brown turn down the gas to cook slowly. Pour 1/2 the cream over in the beginning and baste often. When half done pour in the remainder of the cream and cook 1 1/2 hours.
If there is no sour cream, add 1 tablespoon of vinegar to sweet cream. The cream makes a delicious sauce.
A delicious syrup that can be eaten on bread and used in a multitude of recipes.
One pint of black beans soaked over night in 3 quarts of water.
In the morning pour off the water and add fresh 3 quarts. Boil slowly 4 hours. When done there should be 1 quart. Add a quart of beef stock, 4 whole cloves, 4 whole allspice, 1 stalk of celery, 1 good-sized onion, 1 small carrot, 1 small turnip, all cut fine and fried in a little butter.
Add 1 tablespoon flour, season with salt and pepper and rub through a fine sieve.
Serve with slices of lemon and egg balls.
Bake 20 or 30 minutes according to oven.
Saute the veal a moment in butter or lard without browning. Sprinkle with flour and add water making a white sauce. Add any gravy you may have left over, or 2 or 3 bouillon cubes and the onions and let cook 3/4 of an hour on slow fire. Just before serving add yolks of eggs mixed with cream.
Cook for a moment, sprinkle with finely chopped parsley and serve.
⏲️ Prep time: 10 min 🍳 Cook time: 30 min 🍽️ Servings: 12
Enjoy your homemade blueberry muffins!
Mix dry ingredients and beaten egg. Add melted butter and vinegar. Beat well until thoroughly mixed. Add boiling water; cook until thick. Use level measures. If too thick use plain cream to thin.
Wash very thoroughly one cupful of rice; boil for twenty minutes in three quarts of boiling water; drain and shake well, pour cold water over the rice to separate the grains, and set in the oven a few minutes to keep hot.
This is a Portuguese dish that translates to «coconut cupcakes,» though there are probably lots of equivalent dishes from other cultures. Its simplicity and short preparation time make it perfect for a snack or dessert.
A traditional Madeiran-Portuguese Bread
Imperial
Metric - 750 g sweet potato - 1 kg all-purpose flour - 150 ml water (warm at 75F / 35C) - 3 tablespoons active dry yeast - 3 teaspoons salt
Basic bolognese sauce for lasagne or pasta dishes
Bake until thoroughly done.
Take off skins with boiling water. For each pound of fruit allow 1/2 cupful of sugar and 1/2 pint of water. When syrup is boiling, put in peaches, a few at a time, and cook until done, but not too soft. Just pierce with straw.
Spread on platters to cool.
When cool, put in jars and fill up with the syrup mixed with just as much good brandy.
Have syrup thick and seal hot.
This is a recipe for a basic loaf of bread. The dough itself can be used however. I've made buns, rolls, and whole bread loafs using this same exact dough every time without a problem. Eat within 3 days as it will probably be going stale around then (as bread without preservatives and other junk should).
Beat all well together, pour into a buttered dish and bake in a slow oven until lightly browned.
Should be served at once, as it sinks down when cooling. This does not harm it only it does not look so pretty. If it browns too quickly–cover.
There are a number of recipes on how to make a bread pudding on the MDKwiki:
Q5362164
on Wikidata), an American writer of popular
cookbooks during the nineteenth century.This recipe is designed to use up spare bread, so base the other quantities on the amount of bread, and how much liquid it can absorb.
Preheat the oven to 150C (302F)
Enjoy!
The basic parts of a full English in a wrap. Inspired by McDonald's breakfast wraps.
Buckwheat crêpes eaten as dishes, traditionally garnished with ham, eggs and cheese (galette complète).
~15/20 galettes.
Always keep the crepe-maker's T stick in water while cooking so the dough doesn't dry on it. It will then be easier to spread the dough.
This makes two good sized cakes, or four layers.
A very traditional Brazilian dessert that is present in every Brazilian birthday party! Delicious and super easy to make.
Depending on how much brigadeiro you want to make, you'll have to add more or less of each ingredient, so be creative! Be careful with the chocolate powder, you definitely do not want to add too much of it!
Wash and scrape the fish. Soak all night, changing the water at bed time for tepid and again early in the morning for almost scalding hot. Keep this hot for an hour by setting the vessel containing the soaking fish on the side of the range. Wash next in cold water with a stiff brush or rough cloth, wipe perfectly dry, rub all over again with salad oil and vinegar or lemon juice and let it lie in this marmalade for a quarter of an hour before broiling. Place on a hot dish with a mixture of butter, lemon juice and minced parsley.
Well, it's actually a giant trevally, and if you have seen one, that fish looks ugly. So here's a recipe to make it look-and taste!-more appealing.
Q5362164
on Wikidata), an American writer of popular
cookbooks during the nineteenth century.Bake 1 hour and a quarter in a moderate oven. Stir in soda, dissolved, last thing, beating well. This makes 2 small loaves.
A very basic sauce that can be used for various dishes.
Cook until waxy looking, then take the yolks of 2 eggs and 1 heaping tablespoon of flour and 1 1/2 cupfuls milk. Mix all together smooth. Add to the above ingredients. Cook until thick and add vanilla. Have a baked crust, use the whites beaten stiff for the top. Return to the oven for a minute or two.
A delicious home made hamburger dressing 🍔
This recipe is some basic recommandations for making butter based biscuits (aka shortbread, sablés, cookies ...). The complexity comes from the presence of butter mostly.
Q5362164
on Wikidata), an American writer of popular
cookbooks during the nineteenth century.⏲️ Prep time: 10 min 🍳 Cook time: 50 min 🍽️ Servings: 8-10
For steps 1-5: - 250g unsalted butter (warm to room temperature first) - 130g caster sugar - 1tsp vanilla extract - 4 egg yolks - 200g sifted self-raising flour (use as little as 180g for a moister texture) - 60mL milk - (optional) 30g cocoa powder (for a marbled appearance)
For the meringue in step 6: - 50g caster sugar - Egg whites separated from the yolks above
Butter chicken Masala is one of India's most popular chicken recipes, a mild curry with a tomato-onion-cream base and boneless chicken pieces cooked in it to perfection.
Cacio e Pepe (meaning cheese and pepper) is not only based but also incredibly simple, ideal for lazy neets and similarly minded people who don't want to wash too many dishes and don't like complicated recipes with too many extra ingredients.
Caen, a city of north-western France, capital of the department of Calvados, 7 1/2 m. from the English Channel and 149 m. W.N.W. of Paris on the Western railway to Cherbourg. Pop. (1906) 36,247. It is situated in the valley and on the left bank of the Orne, the right bank of which is occupied by the suburb of Vaucelles with the station of the Western railway. To the south-west of Caen, the Orne is joined by the Odon, arms of which water the «Prairie,» a fine plain on which a well-known race-course is laid out. Its wide streets, of which the most important is the rue St Jean, shady boulevards, and public gardens enhance the attraction which the town derives from an abundance of fine churches and old houses. Hardly any remains of its once extensive ramparts and towers are now to be seen; but the castle, founded by William the Conqueror and completed by Henry I., is still employed as barracks, though in a greatly altered condition. St Pierre, the most beautiful church in Caen, stands at the northern extremity of the rue St Jean, in the centre of the town. In the main, its architecture is Gothic, but the choir and the apsidal chapels, with their elaborate interior and exterior decoration, are of Renaissance workmanship. The graceful tower, which rises beside the southern portal to a height of 255 ft., belongs to the early 14th century. The church of St Étienne, or l'Abbaye-aux-Hommes, in the west of the town, is an important specimen of Romanesque architecture, dating from about 1070, when it was founded by William the Conqueror. It is unfortunately hemmed in by other buildings, so that a comprehensive view of it is not to be obtained. The whole building, and especially the west façade, which is flanked by two towers with lofty spires, is characterized by its simplicity. The choir, which is one of the earliest examples of the Norman Gothic style, dates from the early 13th century. In 1562 the Protestants did great damage to the building, which was skilfully restored in the early 17th century. A marble slab marks the former resting-place of William the Conqueror. The abbey-buildings were rebuilt in the 17th and 18th centuries, and now shelter the lycée. Matilda, wife of the Conqueror, was the foundress of the church of La Trinité or l'Abbaye-aux-Dames, which is of the same date as St Étienne. Two square unfinished towers flank the western entrance, and another rises above the transept. Queen Matilda is interred in the choir, and a fine crypt beneath it contains the remains of former abbesses. The buildings of the nunnery, reconstructed in the early 18th century, now serve as a hospital. Other interesting old churches are those of St Sauveur, St Michel de Vaucelles, St Jean, St Gilles, Notre-Dame de la Gloriette, St Étienne le Vieux and St Nicolas, the last two now secularized. Caen possesses many old timber houses and stone mansions, in one of which, the hôtel d'Ecoville (c. 1530), the exchange and the tribunal of commerce are established. The hôtel de Than, also of the 16th century, is remarkable for its graceful dormer-windows. The Maison des Gens d'Armes (15th century), in the eastern outskirts of the town, has a massive tower adorned with medallions and surmounted by two figures of armed men. The monuments at Caen include one to the natives of Calvados killed in 1870 and 1871 and one to the lawyer J. C. F. Demolombe, together with statues of Louis XIV, Élie de Beaumont, Pierre Simon, marquis de Laplace, D. F. E. Auber and François de Malherbe, the two last natives of the town. Caen is the seat of a court of appeal, of a court of assizes and of a prefect. It is the centre of an academy and has a university with faculties of law, science and letters and a preparatory school of medicine and pharmacy; there are also a lycée, training colleges, schools of art and music, and two large hospitals. The other chief public institutions are tribunals of first instance and commerce, an exchange, a chamber of commerce and a branch of the Bank of France. The hôtel-de-ville contains the library, with more than 100,000 volumes and the art museum with a fine collection of paintings. The town is the seat of several learned societies including the Société des Antiquaires, which has a rich museum of antiquities. Caen, despite a diversity of manufactures, is commercial rather than industrial. Its trade is due to its position in the agricultural and horse-breeding district known as the «Campagne de Caen» and to its proximity to the iron mines of the Orne valley, and to manufacturing towns such as Falaise, Le Mans, &c. In the south-east of the town there is a floating basin lined with quays and connected with the Orne and with the canal which debouches into the sea at Ouistreham 9 m. to the N.N.E. The port, which also includes a portion of the river-bed, communicates with Havre and Newhaven by a regular line of steamers; it has a considerable fishing population. In 1905 the number of vessels entered was 563 with a tonnage of 190,190. English coal is foremost among the imports, which also include timber and grain, while iron ore, Caen stone, butter and eggs and fruit are among the exports. Important horse and cattle fairs are held in the town. The industries of Caen include timber-sawing, metal-founding and machine-construction, cloth-weaving, lace-making, the manufacture of leather and gloves, and of oil from the colza grown in the district, furniture and other wooden goods and chemical products.
Though Caen is not a town of great antiquity, the date of its foundation is unknown. It existed as early as the 9th century, and when, in 912, Neustria was ceded to the Normans by Charles the Simple, it was a large and important place. Under the dukes of Normandy, and particularly under William the Conqueror, it rapidly increased. It became the capital of lower Normandy, and in 1346 was besieged and taken by Edward III. of England. It was again taken by the English in 1417, and was retained by them till 1450, when it capitulated to the French. The university was founded in 1436 by Henry VI. of England. During the Wars of Religion, Caen embraced the reform; in the succeeding century its prosperity was shattered by the revocation of the edict of Nantes (1685). In 1793 the city was the focus of the Girondist movement against the Convention.
Caesar Salad is an easy and delicious meal for lunch or dinner.
There are a number of recipes on how to make cakes on the MDKwiki:
See also:
Calvados, a department of north-western France, formed in 1790 out of Bessin, Cinglais, Hiémois, Bocage, the Campagne de Caen, Auge and the western part of Lieuvin. Pop. (1906) 403,431. Area, 2197 sq. m. It received its name from a ledge of rocks, stretching along the coast for a distance of about 15 m. between the mouths of the rivers Orne and Vire. It is bounded N. by the English Channel, E. by the department of Eure, S. by that of Orne, W. by that of Manche. The Bocage, or south-western part of the department, is elevated, being crossed from south-east to north-west by the hills of Normandy, the highest of which is 1197 ft.; the rest of the surface is gently undulating, and consists of extensive valleys watered by numerous streams which fall into the English Channel. The coast, formed by cliffs, sandy beaches or reefs, is generally inaccessible, except at the mouths of the principal rivers, such as the Touques, the Dives, the Orne and the Vire, which are navigable at high tide for several miles inland. Trouville is the chief of the numerous coast resorts. The climate, though humid and variable, is healthy. The raising of cattle, sheep and horses is the mainstay of the agriculture of the department. Pasture is good and abundant in the east and north-west, and there is a large export trade in the butter, eggs and cheese (Camembert, Livarot, Pont l'Evêque) of these districts, carried on by Honfleur, Isigny and other ports. The plain of Caen is a great centre for horse breeding. Wheat, oats, barley, colza and potatoes are the chief crops. The orchards of Auge and Bessin produce a superior kind of cider, of which upwards of 40,000,000 gallons are made in the department; a large quantity of cider brandy (eau-de-vie de Calvados) is distilled. Poultry to a considerable amount is sent to the Paris markets, and there is a large output of honey and wax. The spinning and weaving of wool and cotton are the chief industries. Besides these, paper-mills, oil-mills, tanneries, saw-mills, shipbuilding yards, rope-works, dye-works, distilleries and bleach-fields, scattered throughout the department, give employment to a number of hands. There are productive iron-mines and building-stone, slate and lime are plentiful. Fisheries, chiefly of lobster, oyster (Courseulles), herring and mackerel, are prosecuted. Coal, timber, grain, salt-fish and cement are among the imports; exports include iron, dairy products and sand. Caen and Honfleur are the most important commercial ports. There is a canal 9 m. in length from Caen to Ouistreham on the coast. The department is served by the Ouest-État railway. It is divided into the six arrondissements (38 cantons, 763 communes) of Caen, Falaise, Bayeux, Vire, Lisieux and Pont l'Evêque. Caen, the capital, is the seat of a court of appeal and the centre of an académie (educational division). The department forms the diocese of Bayeux, in the ecclesiastical province of Rouen, and belongs to the region of the III. army-corps. The other principal towns are Falaise, Lisieux, Condé-sur-Noireau, Vire, Honfleur and Trouville.
Amongst the great number of medieval churches which the department possesses, the fine Gothic church of St. Pierre-sur-Dives is second in importance only to those of Lisieux and Bayeux; that of Norrey, a good example of the Norman-Gothic style, and that of Tour-en-Bessin, in which Romanesque and Gothic architecture are mingled, are of great interest. Fontaine-Henri has a fine château of the 15th and 16th centuries.
camelCase
A variable in a programming language is sait to be camelCased when all words but the first are capitalized. This practice contrasts with the C tradition of either running syllables together or marking syllable breaks with underscores; thus, where a C programmer would write thisverylongname or this_very_long_name, the camelCased version would be thisVeryLongName. This practice is common in certain language communities (formerly Pascal; today Java and Visual Basic) and tends to be associated with object-oriented programming.
Compare BiCapitalization; but where that practice is primarily associated with marketing, camelCasing is not aimed at impressing anybody, and hackers consider it respectable.
Wash and make a little slit in each berry. For each quart of berries put one and a half large cups of hot or cold water in kettle. Then the berries, then spread 2 cups sugar over them, also a pinch of soda. Keep covered closely all the time, do not stir or lift lid until perfectly cold. From the moment it begins to boil count five minutes–no more–to cook them.
If you remove the lid the lovely gloss will be lost.
Melt a tablespoon of butter with a cup of light brown sugar, and a tablespoon of water; cook for a few moments, till well incorporated, then spread between slices of buttered bread.
This one is a delicious slow cooked beef stewed in beer. The smoked bacon is not in the traditional recipe but it's good. Don't add it if you want the real deal.
Carbonara is a simple dish. The quality of your ingredients makes or breaks it. I recommend using the best ingredients you can source. Suggestions: bronze extruded pasta, 24 months aged Parmigiano-Reggiano, 12+ months aged Pecorino Romano, guanciale from the butcher, and organic eggs.
This recipe assumes medium eggs.
Boil four large carrots until tender; drain and rub through a sieve, add one cupful of thick white sauce, mix well and season to taste. When cold, shape into croquettes, and fry same as other croquettes.
One quart of thinly sliced carrots, one head of celery, three or four quarts of water, boil for two and one-half hours; add one-half cupful of rice and boil for an hour longer; season with salt and pepper and a small cupful of cream.
Casio in pastelletto means roughly «cheese treat» in vernacular Italian.
It is a medieval recipe and the taste changes a lot depending on the cheese you choose, so there are no exact quantities for the ingredients, and the dish may be considered a main one or a sweet (I think it was probably a dessert, though). You will probably have to do some trial and error before you get a good result.
Making a stew (Q2920963
on Wikidata) is easy. Very easy, and in fact,
it's kind of hard to mess up the process.
Stew itself is an old food, dating to at least the medieval era, so because of that, there have been countless recipes for it. Here's ours.
When it comes to making a stew, or even most foods, once you learn that it doesn't really matter what you put in it, or even how much, as long as it tastes nice, that's all that really matters. Stews are a perfect example of this: you don't need to put mushrooms in it if you don't want to; replace it with something else if you like; hell, make a stew that's mostly just carrots if you like. It's your food, and if you like it, do it your way.
For this recipe, the quantity of ingredients is not listed; put however much you think is right, and it'll be nice.
Before you do anything, you should oil up your pot on low while you get a bowl and place in a good amount of flower into it, add however much salt and pepper you want, after cut the beef up into square cubes, around five by five centermenters.
Once the beef is cut up, put it in the flour bowl and coat the meat, then place it in the stew pot. Don't put all the meat into the pot at once; ideally, you should be able to see the bottom of the pot as you fry the beef, making sure it's nice and cooked.
Once the first batch is fried, take it out so it's placed into a second bowl or plate, then put the next lot of beef in, repeating this process until you're out of beef.
By this point, there should be beef remains on the bottom of the pot. Don't remove it; this just adds to the overall flavor.
Slice up the onions well and place them in the pot so they fry. Add the rest of the flour that you may not have used if you like. The onions should be fried until nice and soft.
Once the onions are fried, add about a cup or two of the wine or Guinness. Don't drown the onions.
Chop up the vegetables and add them to the pot as well as the beef. While you chop, turn down the heat on the stove so it's somewhat low.
Add the water so all of the food is drowning. You can also add more wine/Guinness - try not to use a lot of alcohol as it can overpower the food. Add the stock and Worcester sauce.
Also place in a full garlic clove, unchopped.
Place into an oven and put a timer on for two hours and thirty minutes. Every thirty minutes or so, take the pot out of the oven and stir the contents of the pot.
Once the time is over, place in the peas and take out the garlic and crush it. Chuck away the unused part of it and mix the food together.
Finally, you'll enjoy your stew with some bread.
(For Tomato Salad)
Ceviche is a South American dish which originated in Peru. The following recipe will only cover the bare minimum ingredients, so feel free to experiment by adding things like garlic, ginger, peppers tomatoes, cilantro, other citrus juices, and anything else you feel might taste good in there.
A kind of braided bread preparation.
NOTE: Prep time does not account for the 3-4 hours the dough must be left to rise and cool (see directions 5, 10, & 12).
The original text gave no directions.
Suggested sides: Roasted green beans as well as sweet potatoes mashed with sour cream and butter
The success of this recipe depends entirely on the quality of the milk. The fresher the milk the better. Your regular UHT milk won't work, because the necessary bacteria have been killed.
You do not necessary need cow milk, basically every animal milk will work, but the cheese will have vastly different (not necessarily worse) characteristics.
Pour the milk and the salt into a pot, stir it well, and heat it up to 35°C. Once the temperature has been reached, add the rennet and stir well. Let it cook until it solidifies (about 1 and a half hours), then cut in 1x1cm squares. Let it rest for half an hour. Pour the cheese into the cheesecloth and il drip until it has completely separated from the liquid part (whey). Place the cheese into the recipient. Cover both sides of the cheese with coarse salt, repeat this operation twice, waiting 1 hour between two saltings. Store in the fridge.
Store the cheese in a chill place (around 12°C). Every day of aging, flip the cheese upside-down. For the first two weeks, also cover it with oil and vinegar every day.
You might have noticed you've obtained way more whey than cheese, it's normal, so you probably want to use it in some way instead of throwing it away.
If they like acids, you can feed it to your plants: it's pretty much giving them water and fertilizer in one go, you can feed it to your animals, since it's a great source of proteins, it's the prime ingredient of another cheese called «Ricotta», it can be used instead of water in sever recipes, and many other: you can even drink it. People have engineered ways to use the whey since the dawn of cheese.
Butter slices of bread and sprinkle over them a mixture of grated cheese and paprika. Set them in a pan and place the pan in the oven, leaving it there until the bread is colored, and the cheese set. Serve very hot.
Bake in a quick oven in buttered baking dish.
Nothing beats meat, cheese and tomato combined together to create the best combination of flavors that man has created.
The quantities here are for about two adult portions. That is, if you are also making some side dish, like in the photo.
For the meatballs:
For the sauce:
Originally published at https://www.yaroslavps.com/food/cheesy-meatballs/
Potatoes baked in a dish smothered with cheese, what's not to love?
You will need a deep dish that is oven safe
Cover chestnuts with boiling water slightly salted. Cook until quite soft and rub through coarse sieve, add stock, and seasoning; then thicken with flour blended with water.
Let simmer five minutes and serve at once.
In case stock is not available milk can be used with a little butter added.
There are a number of recipes on how to use chicken on the MDKwiki:
Grind meat twice. Boil the onion with the cream and strain the onion out. Let cool and pour over crumbs. Add parsley and butter, and make a stiff mixture. Now add seasoning.
Mix all together by beating in the meat. If too thick add a little milk and form into croquettes, and put in ice box.
When cool dip in beaten egg and then in crackers or bread crumbs. Fry in deep fat.
Chicken Paprikash is a delicious meal from Hungary, and I hope you are also Hungary! I make it all the time when I have guests.
The recipe that started this very site.
There is some controversy over when to add the pasta sauce to this dish. Some place it on the chicken before cooking it with the mozzarella. The sauce, if left on the chicken too long will make the breadcrumbs go soggy. That also will make leftovers mushy (while still tasty). I recommend keeping the breasts separate and only adding the sauce when served.
Easy to throw together and transport for the working fellow. High in protein!
Prepare same as for stewed chicken. When done remove chicken from bones; now boil potatoes enough for family. Line a deep baking dish or a deep pan with good rich paste. Sprinkle flour in bottom.
Lay in a layer of chicken; now potatoes, sprinkle with a little salt and pepper; now cut thin strips of dough, lay across; then a layer of chicken; then a layer of potatoes, and so on until the top of the pan is reached; pour over all the chicken, the gravy and put a crust over all the top and bake until well done and nicely browned.
Make little punctures in dough to allow the steam to escape.
Tell me what you eat, and I'll tell you what you are.
- Brillat Savarin (1755 - 1826;Q313027on Wikidata).
Hearty soup that is adaptable to customizing to your desired vegetables or other additions
Chicken stock, or «bone broth» is not a final dish in itself, but is used in many soups and other dishes to add great taste to something otherwise very simple. While it is easy to make, it sells for very expensive in the store, so it's a good thing to know to make by yourself since it can be done very cheaply.
You may also eat the remaining chicken, possibly for lunchmeat, but since it has imparted its flavor to the stock, it will be slightly more bland so some seasoning might be advised. You may eat or compost the remaining vegetables.
This dish is a very simple and tasty curry that can be made with minimal ingredients, but pairs amazingly with anything else one may want in a curry (i.e. ginger, lemongrass). Note: You may also need a blender / food processor.
Perfectly cooked fall off the bone buffalo wings.
* Not the «wing sauce» version
† A pan might work, but I've only ever used a grill
Chop tomatoes by themselves, then add finely chopped onions and peppers. Lastly add sugar, salt and vinegar mixing well. Boil 2 hours and can.
Essentially, just a fried burrito. Use whatever your favorite filling is.
Easy to prepare Italian dish with lots of flavour great for a relaxing evening dipping bread and sipping wine.
Boil all of the ingredients (except the vanilla) over a slow fire until dissolved, and stir occasionally as it burns easily. Test by dropping little in water. If it hardens quickly, remove at once from the fire. Add vanilla and pour into buttered pans.
When cool, cut in squares with a buttered knife.
Butter and thinly slice white bread; make a chocolate filling exactly like fudge, but do not allow it to boil quite to the candy stage; spread between the slices of bread, press together and trim neatly.
Chop Suey is made of chopped meat and the gizzards of ducks or chickens, 1 cup of chopped celery and 1/2 cup of shredded almonds.
Mix with the following sauce: 1 tablespoon butter and 1 teaspoon arrow root stirred into 1 cupful broth. Add 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce and simmer all for twenty minutes.
Recommend serving with corn bread.
Cream butter; add sugar. Separate eggs; beat and add. Then flour to roll.
Being an early example of sapphic literature, CIL
4.5296 (Q80995881
on Wikidata) was found in the ruins of Pompeii
in 1888 by Italian archaeologists excavating the Roman town. It was
scratched onto the wall of a hallway and is one of the longest and most
elaborate pieces of graffiti to survive from Pompeii. It is unique as it
is a love poem directed from one woman to another. The text is as
follows, in compleat.
Oh, if only I could hold your little arms wrapped around my neck
and press kisses to your tender little lips.
Go then, little doll, trust your happiness to the winds.
Believe me, the nature of men is fickle.
Often I would lie awake, lost in the middle of the night,
Thinking to myself: many whom Fortune has lifted up high,
those, suddenly hurled away/abandoned and falling headlong, she then oppresses.
So too, after Venus has unexpectedly joined the bodies of lovers,
daylight divides them and...
The poem itself may not be an original work, but copied from pre-existing text.
Make a syrup of water and sugar. Put in cinnamon drops. Pare and core apples. Place in syrup and boil until tender, do not allow to break.
Take out when tender and place in a dish or if you wish in individual dishes. Pour over syrup, and allow to cool. When cold pour whipped cream on top of each and a cherry on top of cream.
Flaky, tender biscuits infused with nutty brown butter and layered with cinnamon sugar, finished with a glossy cinnamon butter glaze.
About six o'clock in the evening soak a cake of yeast in a little luke warm water, make sponge with a little flour, water and yeast. Let rise until light, about an hour.
Melt butter and lard and cream with sugar and salt; add luke warm milk and some flour, then stir in sponge and gradually add more flour until stiff, not as stiff as bread dough. Do not knead, simply stiffen.
Let rise until morning, then simply put in square or round cake pans about one and one-half inches thick. Do not roll, just mold with the hands and let rise about an hour.
Cover with little lumps of butter, then sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon and bake twenty minutes. Thin slices of apples can be placed on top, also peaches or almonds, blanched and chipped.
This is the genuine German cinnamon cake, and is excellent.
This is a cinnamon waffle recipe. This is an old recipe which the «dutch» brought over from Germany.
This is a nice simple dish made up of five ingredients: panna, pomodori, parmigiano, pepe, e prezzemolo
Basic recipe on creating the clam chowder-base. Ingredient requirements are based on approximate minimums.
Classic French sauce, base for a lot of dishes
In place of the soda and cream of tartar 3 teaspoons of baking powder can be used.
Cream sugar with butter. Add the yolks of the 4 eggs and beat well. Add juice and rind of lemon. Then flour, into which has been sifted the baking powder. Sift flour and baking powder twice before adding to mixture. Use enough flour to make a very stiff batter, add cocoanut, and last, fold in the whites of the eggs beaten to a stiff froth.
Drop on buttered tins and bake in moderate oven.
Q5362164
on Wikidata), an American writer of popular
cookbooks during the nineteenth century.Grate the cocoanut, beat the butter and sugar to a cream; beat the eggs until very dry and light; mix well together and bake on pie crusts rolled very thin. This amount will make four large tarts.
I created this recipe looking for a bread alternative not using any grains, processed sugar and processed oils. It is sitting between bread and cake feel and my wife loved it. I used pasture-raised eggs to my recipe, just because it is more nutritious. But regular eggs should be fine.
See also: 404 compliant.
404 compliant: adj.
404: //, n.
[from the HTTP error «file not found on server»] Extended to humans to convey that the subject has no idea or no clue – sapience not found. May be used reflexively; «Uh, I'm 404ing» means «I'm drawing a blank».
See also: Code 404.
404 compliant: adj.
The status of a website which has been completely removed, usually by the administrators of the hosting site as a result of net abuse by the website operators. The term is a tongue-in-cheek reference to the standard «301 compliant» Murkowski Bill disclaimer used by spammers. See also: spam, spamvertize.
Soak fish over night. Place in fresh water and bring to the boiling point. Do not allow it to boil. Take out fish and shred. Remove all skin and bones. Allow it to cool.
Add potatoes, parsley, pepper, oil and vinegar.
Coffee is kind of like the older, cooler brother of tea.
There are a number of recipes on how to make, or has, coffee on the MDKwiki:
This is a coleslaw recipe that I got from a chili restaurant in my neighborhood that closed down a few years ago. This recipe makes more dressing than needed for the coleslaw, so you can save it or use it as a vegetable dip.
This dish was a pandemic leftover invention loosely inspired by Ethiopian gomen. It can be served as a side dish, but we eat it an an entree. If you intend it as a side dish, then this serves 4. The smoked duck adds a bit of saltiness, so it's better to season to taste after cooking. Serve with good quality, crusty bread.
A Salad to Fit in With Any Scheme of Decoration You May Wish to Carry Out.
To make a yellow salad use the yellower heart leaves of lettuce. On them put diced orange pulp, dressed with French dressing and sprinkled with chopped walnut meats. Or else scoop out the centers of small yellow-skinned apples and fill them with a mixture of orange and apple, dressed with mayonnaise made with lemon juice for thinning and a flavoring of mustard.
On green, but tender leaves of lettuce, put a little mound of spinach, which has been boiled and pressed through a sieve and mixed with French dressing. In the center of each mound, concealed by the spinach, put a spoonful of chopped hard-boiled egg.
Peel and boil tiny white turnips of equal size and hollow out the center of each. Fill with cold boiled peas and mayonnaise and put on green lettuce leaves.
Celery, potato, chicken–white meat only–white fish, blanched asparagus–any or two of these may be used for white salad. Dress with French dressing or with a white mayonnaise, to which the beaten white of egg has been added and which has been thinned with vinegar.
Scoop out the inside of tomatoes. Save the slice removed from the top for a cover and replace it on the tomato after filling it with a mixture of celery and nut meats, mixed with mayonnaise. Place each tomato on a white leaf of lettuce.
Strain tomato juice and mix it with equal quantity of white stock–veal or chicken. Thicken sufficiently with gelatin and harden in molds. Serve on white lettuce leaves, with mayonnaise that has been colored with a little cranberry juice.
Make mayonnaise with much egg yolk in proportion to other ingredients, and thin with cider vinegar. Dice tender carrots and arrange on lettuce leaves, dressing with orange mayonnaise.
Animals feed, Men eat, but only intelligent Men know what to eat.
- Brillat Savarin (1755 - 1826;Q313027on Wikidata).
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there. My computer can bleep and bloop all day for all I care.
Some good articles to do with computers:
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"""""""""""""""Condé, the name of some twenty villages in France and of two towns of some importance. Of the villages, Condé-en-Brie (Lat. Condetum) is a place of great antiquity and was in the middle ages the seat of a principality, a sub-fief of that of Montmirail; Condé-sur-Aisne (Condatus) was given in 870 by Charles the Bald to the abbey of St Ouen at Rouen, gave its name to a seigniory during the middle ages, and possessed a priory of which the church and a 12th-century chapel remain; Condé-sur-Marne (Condate), once a place of some importance, preserves one of its parish churches, with a fine Romanesque tower. The two towns are:-
Condé-sur-l'Escaut, in the department of Nord, at the junction of the canals of the Scheldt and of Condé-Mons. Pop. (1906) town, 2701; commune, 5310. It lies 7 m. N. by E. of Valenciennes and 2 m. from the Belgian frontier. It has a church dating from the middle of the 18th century. Trade is in coal and cattle. The industries include brewing, rope-making and boat-building, and there is a communal college. Condé (Condate) is of considerable antiquity, dating at least from the later Roman period. Taken in 1676 by Louis XIV., it definitely passed into the possession of France by the treaty of Nijmwegen two years later, and was afterwards fortified by Vauban. During the revolutionary war it was besieged and taken by the Austrians (1793); and in 1815 it again fell to the allies. It was from this place that the princes of Condé took their title. See Perron-Gelineau, Condé ancien et moderne (Nantes, 1887).
Condé-sur-Noireau, in the department of Calvados, at the confluence of the Noireau and the Drouance, 33 m. S.S.W. of Caen on the Ouest-État railway. Pop. (1906) 5709. The town is the seat of a tribunal of commerce, a board of trade-arbitration and a chamber of arts and manufactures, and has a communal college. It is important for its cotton-spinning and weaving, and carries on dyeing, printing and machine-construction; there are numerous nursery-gardens in the vicinity. Important fairs are held in the town. The church of St Martin has a choir of the 12th and 15th centuries, and a stained-glass window (15th century) representing the Crucifixion. There is a statue to Dumont d'Urville, the navigator (b. 1790), a native of the town. Throughout the middle ages Condé (Condatum, Condetum) was the seat of an important castellany, which was held by a long succession of powerful nobles and kings, including Robert, count of Mortain, Henry II. and John of England, Philip Augustus of France, Charles II. (the Bad) and Charles III. of Navarre. The place was held by the English from 1417 to 1449. Of the castle some ruins of the keep survive. See L. Huet, Hist. de Condé-sur-Noireau, ses seigneurs, son industrie, &c. (Caen, 1883).
Easy recipe for cooked chickpeas. Can be add to salads, rice, or almost anything else.
Beat yolks until creamy, add to them the mustard, salt and sugar. Beat in slowly the butter melted, also add vinegar. Cook until it thickens. It is best to make this in a double boiler. When cold, add 1 cup sweet or sour cream.
This keeps well and is particularly fine for lettuce, celery, beans, asparagus or cauliflower.
Boneless chicken marinated in a gravy of yoghurt and coriander
Mix the dry ingredients together. Bake in rather quick oven.
Sift all dry ingredients–sugar, flour, meal, salt and baking powder.
Beat yolks and add milk, stir into dry materials. Now beat whites stiff and add. Lastly stir in melted butter. Bake in greased pans about twenty to thirty minutes.
Polenta is basically cereal flour boiled in water until thick. It was a common peasant dish in many areas of Italy, thus many versions exist, varying in consistency (from almost liquid to thick enough to make slices) and cereals used.
Polenta is not to be eaten alone; instead, it may be served in a variety of ways:
as a side dish, often with meat
with a side dish, like peas
with a sauce, such as meat sauce or tomato sauce
transformed in a main dish melting in it a slice of a savoury cheese
⏲️ Prep time: 1 h
🍽️ Servings: 4
Score and cut corn fine–scraping the last off cob. Put the butter in the hot rice. First mix rice and corn well together, then beat in the custard.
To make cottage cheese effectively, with an aroma and delicacy equal to its nourishment, a rich milk which has not lost time in souring should be put in an earthenware or stone jar with the lid on, and placed in hot water over a very slow fire until it is well heated with the curd clotted from the whey. When it begins to steam the curd is drained a very short period through cheese cloth. Well mixed with salt and butter and pepper it is an ideal muscle and tissue maker.
Cottage cheese is much more easily turned into brawn, brain and bone than any of the less porous, less ripe cheeses. In fact the curious uncomfortably bloated sensation experienced by many who eat other varieties of cheese is uncommon with cottage cheese.
Faulty mastication, peculiar susceptibilities to casein and an excess of other solid foods often causes the distress which follows cheese eating. If well emulsified with saliva by the teeth or mixed with water and not gulped down, cottage cheese serves every sort of food purpose.
Cream well together 2 teaspoons butter, 1 cup sugar, 1 egg, 1/2 cup milk, 1/4 teaspoon salt and 1-3/4 cups flour. Beat well and add two scant teaspoons baking powder, then turn into shallow, well-buttered pan, the bottom of which has been covered with fresh fruit of any kind.
Bake in moderate oven one-half hour. Serve with cream or sauce.
This is a recipe for making Jordan's Country Crisp-like cereals.
If you are feeling quite hungry after just waking up and want to have a breakfast to fill your HP and stamina bars for the day, I've got just the perfect recipe for you.
To be honest, this is more of a build-your-own dish. What I am providing here, I would say, is more of a starting point and you're more than welcome to add (or remove) anything you'd like. I also have to say that this is not exclusively a breakfast dish, I've had it for breakfast, for lunch, for supper, for dinner, etc. Although, I guess when you're a student just any food at any time of the day will do.
Since I more often than not cook this only for myself, the ingredient list below is calculated for one person. Once more, this is not a strict ingredient list, so you can really add anything you want. I would say that the only ingredients that are a most are the eggs and the potatoes. The rest of the ingredients I will mark with * for the ones that I usually use, and ** for ingredients that I have used, but seldom use.
*Personally, I prefer to beat the eggs first in a bowl before adding them to the frying pan.
Originally published at https://www.yaroslavps.com/food/country-breakfast-skillet/
Credits to creator of recipe, Mike Benayoun , (original recipe). I decided to post it on here to be more available.
Couscous is a staple in most Maghreb cuisines. It is known as the national dish in Tunisia, but also in Algeria and Morocco, as well as Mauritania and Libya. Tunisian couscous is one of the countless variations of this delicious and versatile dish.
Our copy of cows.txt that was uploaded to Jason Scott's textfiles.com in 1999, note
that the bottom of the file that clearly says «PLEASE DISTRIBUTE THIS
FILE WIDELY – IT IS *NOT* COPYRIGHTED».
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/\\\ / / //\ ____\_____\/ //
/----^/__/\ /\ // \\/ \___ / //
\\\____/--\-- // /-/__________/ //
/====== \/ =======/==============//
*_/ / \ /^ // / \\
/ \ ^ // \\
Psycowlogist and patient
(___)
\^^^^^^^^\ (__) (o o)
\^^^^^^^^\\ (oo) \ /
*-----\_______\/\/ \--O--/
^_______/ --- \______^ // -----\
^--------\ \S/ /\_____^ \\/_^{} /==V===[]
\______/ \_____\\//
\__/
It's a bird... //\\ The Boss
It's a plane... // \\ (Bruce Holstien)
// //
^^ ^^
==================
_____________________________ H H
| |-------------| H (__) H
| | ________ | H (oo) H __
| COWNTY | | (|__|) | | H / \/ \ H / \
| JAIL | | |oo| | | H | | | | H | STOP |
| | |__|\/|__| | H D===b=----- H \ __ /
| | o | H^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^H ||
| | ^ | H H ||
| | ] | H H ||
| | | H H ||
|_____________|_____________| H H ||
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^
Some cows get in trouble... Cattle Guard
( ( )
( ( ) )
( ( )
( / )
( ( \\ )
( | // )
| | (__)
| | (oo) (__)
| | ----\/ ______(oo)_____
| | || ( _)_______(__) )
**| | ---|| \ __________/
``'---------^^
Cow Hide Cow Pie
\ | / ___________
____________ \ \_# / | ___ | _________
| | \ #/ | | | | | = = = = |
| | | | | \\# | |`v'| | | |
| | \# // | --- ___ | | | || | |
| | | | | #_// | | | | | |
| | \\ #_/_______ | | | | | | || | |
| | | | | \\# /_____/ \ | --- | | |
| | \# |+ ++| | | |^^^^^^| | | | || | |
| | \# |+ ++| | | |^^^^^^| | | | || | |
^^^| (^^^^^) |^^^^^#^| H |_ |^| | |||| | |^^^^^^| |
| ( ||| ) | # ^^^^^^ | | |||| | | | ||||||| |
^^^^^^^^^^^^^________/ /_____ | | |||| | | | ||||||| |
`v'- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ | ||||||| |
|| |`. (__) (__) ( )
(oo) (oo) /---V
/-------\/ \/ --------\ * | |
/ | || ||_______| \
* ||W---|| || || *
^^ ^^ ^^ ^^
"Cow Town"
\ (__) (__)
\\(oo) (\/)
/-----\\\/ /-------\/
/ | (##) / | ||
* ||----||" * ||----||
^^ ^^ ~~ ~~
This cow plays bagpipes. Cow from Beijing
(__) (__) (__)
(\/) ($$) (**)
/-------\/ /-------\/ /-------\/
/ | 666 || / |=====|| / | ||
* ||----|| * ||----|| * ||----||
^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^
Satanic cow This cow is a Yuppie Cow in love
(__) (__)
(oo) (oo)
/-'''''-\/ /-------------------\/
/ |'''''|| / | ||
* ||''''|| * ||----------------||
^^ ^^ ^^ ^^
Cow in Argyle Stretch Cow
*
** **
* ** * * * **
* / / \ * *
\ \ / \ / / (__)
* / / \ \ (__) \ \ /--------(00)
/ (00) / / / | |( )
\ /-------\/ \ \ * ||---- ||()
/ / | || / / || ||
\ \ * ||----|| \ \ ^^ ^^
/ / ^^ ^^ / / Cow Chewing Marbles
Cow in Heat
(___)
(o o)
/------\ / (__) (__)
/ ____O (oo) (oo)
| / /----\----\/ /-------\/
/\oo===| / || / | ||
| || *||^-----|| * OO----OO
* ^^ ^^ ^^
Cowt in the Act low rider cow
(__) \__\ (__)
(oo) o (oo) (oo)
/-------\/ ____\___\/ *+-------\/
/ | || / | || ||______||
* ||----|| * ||----|| ||----||
OO OO OO OO OO OO
Detroit cow Mustang cow pickup cow
(__) (__) \_||_~
(oo) (oo) (*||*)
/---------------\/ /----\/ /-------\||/
/ | || / || / | ||
* ||------------|| *-||----|| * ||----||
OO OO OO OO OO }{
li-moo-cow fastback cow teenager's cow
____
(____)
.xxxx.
(__) '(oo)`
(oo) /-----'-\/ `
/-------\/ / | |============>
/ | || * ||----| (~)
* ||----|| ~~ ~
~~ ~~ Moo-ammar Cowdafi
holy cow armed and dangerous
(___) (___)
(o o) (o o)
/-------\ / /-------\ /
/ | ||O / | O~ ||O
* ||,---|| * ||,---||
^^ ^^ ^^ ^^
A Bull A-bomb-in-a-bull No-bull
(---)
( )
/-----\ (___)
| | (o o)
| | | (-----) \ /
| | | / / \ O
| * | * | O |
^^ ^^ -----
Coward Phone Bull
_______________________________
}__{ / Send YOUR cow pictures to \
(00) ( dbader@scarecrow.csee.lehigh.edu )
:****** \/ ==='\________________________________/'
: # ##
##****##
"" ""
| | | | *
| | (__) | | \ (__)
| | (oo) | | \ (oo)
| | /-------\/ | | -----------\/--
| | / | || | | ----| |---
| | * ||----|| | | --------
| \______^^____^^___ | \_________________
| _________________ | _________________
| / | /
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
/ \ / \
Cow perched on a tree. Cow attempting to fly off tree.
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| \_________________
| _________________
| /
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| | (__)
| | *---------(..)
/ \ ^^----^^\/
The attempt results in an udder disaster.
. /\ . . : (__)
. / \ . . : (xx)
/ \ . . * : __------\/
/ \ * : * ||____||
| (__) | . . ** : / | |\
. /| (oo) |\ ** :
/ | /\/\ | \ . . * : Hamburger
. / |=|==|=| \ . * :
. / | | | | \ . :
/ USA | ^||^ |NASA \ . : * (__)
|______| ^^ |______| . : \ (oo)
. (__||__) . . : \-------\/
. /_\ /_\ . . . : 8-| ||
!!! !!! : ||----||
: ^^ ^^
The cow that jumped over the moon. : Flying Cow
...---...
../ / | \ \..
./ / / | \ \ \.
/ / / | \ \ \
/ / / | \ \ \
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
\ | /
\ | /
\ | /
\ | /
\ | /
\ | /
\ | /
\ | /
\ | /
\ | /(__)
\|/ (oo)
/---++--\/
/ | || ||
* ||-++-||
^^ ^^
Cow surviving attack by Red Baron
..---.. (__)
/ \ (oo)
| RIP | /-------\/
| | / | ||
| | * ||----||
| | ^^ ^^
| |
\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\/////////////////
Elvis's Cow... ...Or is it alive and living in tax exile???
(__)
(oo)
/---+ +--\/
/ | | | ||
* ||-+ +-||
^^ ^^ *
David Copperfield's Cow David Copperfield's other Cow
(__)
(oo)
/-------\/
/ | ||
* ||----||
^^ ^^
(__) (__)
(oo) (oo)
/-------\/ \/-------\
/ | || -^^- || | \
* ||---- -^^- || *
^^ ^^
(__) (__)
(oo) (oo)
/-------\/ \/-------\
/ | || || | \
* ||----|| ||----|| *
^^ ^^ ^^ ^^
Barnum's Troupe of performing cows
(__) _--------_
(oo) |__________| BIG
/-------\/ XXXXXXXXXX MAC
/ | 007 || __________
* ||----|| |_ _|
^^ ^^ --------
Cow licenced to kill Enemy Cow after having met previous cow
The cow that didn't jump
over the moon.
------------------------ !
!
^
/ \ Hey diddle diddle
/___\ The cat and the fiddle
|= =| The cow blew up on the
| | launch pad...
| |
ROCKET, | |
TAKING OFF | |
TOTALLY \\ | |
OBLIVIOUS TO ||||||> | |
THE FACT THAT // | |
THERE IS A | |
COW ON THE | |
LAUNCH PAD /|##!##|\
/ |##!##| \
/ |##!##| \
| / ^ | ^ \ |
| / ( | ) \ |
|/ ( | ) \|
(( ))
(( : ))
(( : ))
(( ))
(( ))
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.
_ _ *
* \\ *= //
COW BLOWING \\ \\ =* //
UP,ON THE ||||||>> * * ( __ )
LAUNCH PAD // * * * . _ (oo) *
// *= *= * BOOM * ()
// *= * * * ==* \\
________________________________________________ = * \\
==============================================
// // !! \\ \\
// // || \\ \\
(__)
(oo)
/'^^^-m
(__) / '' ` )
(oo) o /| /|/|_ | /|
/ \/ / / _ / | | | |
/ _\===^ ___\_____/___ |_____|_|
___|__/ |/\ (___________(_) //|| ||
* ^ ^ * ww ww
Mrs. O'Leary's Cow Cow'nt Dracula
____ ____ |+++++|
|++++| ___ |++++| ____ |+++++|
|++++| |++ ______________________ |++++| |+++++|
|++++| |++/ /( )\ \ |++++| |+++++| __
| | |+| |-oo- | \______ |++++| |+++++| |++|
-----(__)--| \__\/ _(__)_ \ ----------------------------------
o ( oo /_______________________| (oo) \ | __
| _/\_| | M O O - B U S T E R S|__\/\ /| | /oo| - Bleaurgh!
|-| \\____ ------ )_ /| /\
-|_ \_|-_|^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 0 _| * \/ *
\ | __________________________________/
| W| \ \_/ /----------------- \ \_/ /
/ /\ \ \___/ \___/
/ / \ \
^^^ ^^^ Who you gonna call...?
(__) (__) (__) (----------)
(00) (-o) (--) . . . ( *>YAWN<* )
/------\/ /------\/ /------\/ (----------)
/| || /| || /| ||
* ||----|| * ||----|| * ||----||
Cow w/ Glasses Flirtatious cow (winking) Cow after pulling an all-nighter
* (__) (__) (__) (__)
\ (oo) (oo) (oo) (oo)
\-------\/ /-------\/ /-------\/ /-------\/
/| |\ / / \ / \ / / \ \
//||----||\\ * //------\\ * \\--// * \\----\\
^ ^^ ^^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
Cow walking Cow jogging Same cow Cow braking
(__)
(oo) (__) o * (__)
\/ (oo)/ " | (oo)
____| \____ /-------\/(__ o=o=o=|------\/
---/ --** / | / | |
*____/ |___// * ||----|| ||----||
//--------/ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^
//__ Cow Cow pooing
Cow marching standing
Side Front Side back (___) Where's all the bulls!
(__) (__) (__) (__) (O O)/
( oo (oo) oo ) ( ) ^ _/\ /\_ ^
/\_| /\/\ |_/\ / \ \\/ O \//
(___)
( --
\_ | - G'nite, and thank you for your support. Zzz z z z z z z z
\O
Thanks to EVERYONE who contributed COWS!
PLEASE DISTRIBUTE THIS FILE WIDELY -- IT IS *NOT* COPYRIGHTED.
(Besides, this is a classic that NO ONE should miss!)
It is unclear if the other cowsay files, cow.txt, and cowz.txt, have
such liberal of a permission, so do not upload them to the MDKwiki.
cowsay (Q1050444
on Wikidata) is the name of an old but very
fun little program made in 1999 by Tony Monroe. The main idea is that,
once a person installs the program, they can make cute ASCII art figures
appear with their provided text.
For this program, that should be available at your nearest package manager.
cowsay files are saved as .cow files (eg
tux.cow, ghostbusters.cow,
moose.cow) on the user's computer, because of that, it is also possible to
make your own .cow file, and doing so is rather simple, but
you might need to know some basic things...
When rendering in the terminal, if there is only one \,
then it will simply not render. To fix this, in the ASCII art, do
\\ so for every backslash, there is a second right next to
it.
For eyes, $eyes can be inserted so that the user can
change them, so it is possible to, say, have dollar signs in place of
the normal eyeballs, although this only works if the eyes are actually
side-by-side; e.g. the below Bill Gates ASCII would not work as there
are spaces between his eyes, but the very below space cow ASCII art
would, as there are no spaces between the eyes.
Below is an example of what a cowsay file may look like:
## Bill Gates by Drummyfish, CC0
$the_cow = <<EOC;
$thoughts
$thoughts
$thoughts \\__.,.
$thoughts -." "./
/,/---"""\\\\
; __ __ ;
(=[0 ]"[ 0]=)
\\| ""._,"" |/
| .___, |
\\_, ._/
"---"
EOCAnd when a person runs it in their terminal, they will get an output like this:
mdk@wikk:~$ cowsay -f bill "Have you tried the new Windows version?"
_________________________________________
< Have you tried the new Windows version? >
-----------------------------------------
\
\
\ \__.,.
\ -." "./
/,/---"""\\
; __ __ ;
(=[0 ]"[ 0]=)
\| ""._,"" |/
| .___, |
\_, ._/
"---"
mdk@wiki:~$ sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /There are many options for cowsay, although, as the name suggests,
cowsay is slightly obsessed with cows. There's a normal cow, a cow
hiding behind a tree (cower.cow), a cow dressed as «Cowth
Vader» (vader.cow), a cow LARP'ing as a moose
(moose.cow), you get the picture. During the late 80s/early
90s, Eric W. Tilenius would make a few Usenet posts that feature cows in
strange or pun-related situations, often making them anthropomorphic in
some way.
Jason Scott's Textfiles.com hosts at
least three of these posts: cow.txt, cows.txt, and finally cowz.txt, like
this example from a November 1989 post:
o
| [---]
| |
| | |------========|
/----|---|\ | **** |=======|
/___/___\___\ o | **** |=======|
| | ___| |==============|
| | ___ {(__)} |==============|
\-----------/ []( )={(oo)} |==============|
\ \ / / /---===--{ \/ } |
----------------- / | NASA |==== |
| | * ||------||-----
----------------- || | |
/ / \ \ |
/ ---- \
This cow jumped over the MoonNote that these cows are not the same as those that live inside the cowsay program, but seeing that they both feature the theme of cows doing strange and funny acts, it would not be all that shocking if Eric W. Tilenius inspired – even indirectly – Tony Monroe in 1999 to make what would become cowsay.
cows.txt that said «PLEASE
DISTRIBUTE THIS FILE WIDELY – IT IS *NOT* COPYRIGHTED.»Add the Crabs, then small can tomatoes. Thyme, parsley, bay leaf.
No directions were given in the original text.
«We bear and rear and agonize. Well, if we are fit for that, we are fit to have a voice in the fate of the man we bear. If we can bring forth the man for the nation, we can sit with you in your councils and shape the destiny of the nation and say whether it is for war or peace we give the sons we bear.
- Joan in»War Brides.»
Q234795 on
Wikidata), who is credited as «Mme. Nazimova»
- as with the whole book, it is not always clear on who wrote what
recipe.Mix the yogurt, the milk, the cream, the salt, and the sugar into a bowl. Heat the bowl to 80°C while stirring. Once the temperature has been reached, add the citric acid and mix well. Heat up to 90°C, then let it cool down until it reaches room temperature. Pour the cheese into the cheesecloth and let the whey drip. Store in the fridge.
Bake in gem pans. Greatly improved by adding nuts and raisins.
Beat 2 eggs until light, add 1/2 cup of sugar, 1/2 cup molasses, 3/4 cup thick sour cream, the grated rind of 1/2 lemon, 1 saltspoon of salt, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, 1 tablespoon ginger, and finally, add 2 cups of well sifted flour mixed with 1 1/2 teaspoons soda (level).
Bake in gem pans. If desired add nuts and raisins which improves them very much.
Scald milk; beat eggs; add sugar; pour into milk, beating constantly, 1 tablespoon of cornstarch and 1 tablespoon flour (rounded).
Bake crust; beat whites; add 1 teaspoon sugar, cover with cocoanut browned lightly; now cover with whipped cream and cream nuts.
Bake the potatoes in a slow oven. When perfectly cold slice rather thin. Put into a pan, sprinkle on a little flour and toss the potatoes about with your hand until some flour adheres to each piece. Cover these floured potatoes with small bits of butter. If the butter is put in in one piece the potatoes get broken before the butter reaches them all.
Sprinkle in a little salt and put in enough cream so that they are about half covered. If you use more cream they will cook too tender and be mushy before the cream is cooked down. Stand by them. Stir with a knife blade lifting them from the bottom but not turning them over.
When they begin to glisten lift them to a hot serving dish and put them where they will keep warm but will not cook any further.
If you have not cream add a little more butter but the cream is better than the butter.
This recipe was written by Harriet Taylor Upton. As apart of the
United State's Republican Party, Upton (1853 - 1945; Q5664341
on Wikidata) was an activist and author. She
was the first woman to become a vice-chair of the Republican National
Committee and helped the right for women to vote; she was the President
of the Ohio Women's Suffrage Association.
When cooked beat in the yolk of an egg.
Pick to pieces 1 can of lobster, juice of 1 onion, juice of 1 lemon, stalk of celery chopped fine, paprika, sweet peppers, cut fine. Mix all together and serve in ramekins. Serve very hot. Serves 12 people.
To one pound of cleaned and well strained mushrooms, add 1/4 lb. of fresh butter. Allow mushrooms to cook in butter about five minutes. Sprinkle enough flour to thicken.
When well mixed, pour in gently a little more than 1/2 pint of sweet cream. Allow it to boil, add salt and pepper to taste.
This recipe was written by Mrs. Enoch Rauh of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Mashed potatoes is a really great recipe that is often relegated to the position of side dish. This recipe is a spin of the classical mashed potatoes recipe that's got itself more going on. You can serve this dish for a relatively light meal, or you can also serve it as a side dish if you want to have a really hearty meal.
The quantities here are for about four adult portions. If you are planning on eating this as a side dish, it might be more like 6-8 portions.
*You can play with the proportions depending on how creamy or dry you want the mashed potatoes to be.
Originally published at https://www.yaroslavps.com/food/creamy-mashed-potatoes/
Chop half a cupful each of almonds, pecans and walnuts and add enough fondant to make the mixture of the right consistency to mold into bonbons. Boil into little balls and dip in maple or chocolate fondant.
Cut off the tops of eight medium sized sweet bell peppers, saving the tops with the stems attached; remove all the seeds and white portion without breaking the pepper, then throw them into ice water for 30 minutes.
Mix together a cupful of minced ham and chicken, four hard boiled eggs and a bunch of celery, chopped, and a Spanish Onion.
Moisten with dressing, fill the shells, replace the tops and serve.
Croutons are an essential addition to many salads. They are delicious and easy to make at home.
Sweet bread with a crumbly top. The name derives from German «Streußelkuchen», but while German colonists in Southern Brazil kept it identical to the mainland version, North Italian colonists took it and turned it into a tall loaf.
For the dough: - 3 cups of all-purpose flour - 1 1/2 cups of sugar - 3/4 of a cup of warm water - 2 eggs - 6 tablespoons of milk - 2 tablespoons of lard or butter - 1 tablespoon of instant dry yeast - A pinch of nutmeg - 1 teaspoon of vanilla essence (optional). - Optional herbs and spices: Fennel seeds, cinammon, cloves. Don't put too many though.
For the «farofa», the crumbly top: - 1 cup of sugar - 1/2 cup of flour - 2 tablespoons of lard or butter - 1 teaspoon of vanilla essence
Four large cucumbers, one small onion, half a box of gelatine soaked in half a cup of cold water, salt and white pepper to taste. Peel the cucumbers, cut into thick slices and place, with the sliced onion, over the fire with a scant quart of water. Simmer for an hour, stir in the gelatine and, when this is dissolved, season the jelly, strain it and set aside to cool. It may be formed into small moulds and turned out on lettuce leaves, or used in a border-mould for garnishing a fish or tomato salad, or set to form in a salad bowl and taken out by the spoonful and served on lettuce leaves. French dressing is better with it than mayonnaise.
Pare and slice cucumbers crosswise. Marinate in French dressing and place between rounds of buttered bread.
I like to make double this amount and freeze the rest.
Damper is a no-yeast australian campfire bread. It is easy to scale up and down. - ⏲️ Prep time: 30 min - 🍳Cook time: 30 min - 🍽️ Servings: 15
Danish Pancake recipe
Cream the sugar and butter. Add the well beaten yolks; then the whites; then the flour well sifted with the baking powder. Beat until smooth; add milk, then dates. Beat thoroughly and bake three-quarters of an hour in a steady, but not too hot oven.
First fry meat, then remove to platter. Start gravy by first frying the onions a nice brown; then add flour and brown; drain the tomatoes and fry; add rest of ingredients; put meat into this and let it cook slowly for five to six hours.
David Robert Jones (1947-01-08 to 2016-01-10),
better known by his stage name of David Bowie (Q5383 on Wikidata) was a deeply infuancel
singer-songwriter from the UK who will be best known
for his continually changing look and style, seemly always being ahead
of the curve when it comes to not only fasion, like his ever changing
alter egos (Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane, Halloween Jack, the Thin White
Duke, and The Blind Prophet), but also cultural things such as what was
the new and exciting World Wide Web during the 1990s.
Delicious fudge is made with sour cream instead of fresh milk or cream.
Soak and scald a pair of sweetbreads, cut into small bits; take liquor from three dozen large oysters; add to sweetbreads with 3 tablespoons of gravy from the roast beef, and 1/4 lb. of butter chopped and rolled in flour; cook until sweetbreads are tender; add oysters; cook 5 minutes; add 3/4 cup of cream; serve with or without toast.
Old English Recipe, year 1600.
Coffee cup is used for measure.
Cream butter and sugar, stir in yolks, beat hard for 5 minutes, add water, then flour, mix the tartar in it–then nuts, then beaten whites of eggs. Bake 3/4 of an hour if loaf, or half hour if divided into two portions or layers.
This is a take on a traditional demi-glace without needing to buy an astronomically large amount of veal bones. Use this as your main base for pan sauces, an extra flavor bomb, or a replacement for recipes that call for broth or stock.
These are the basic proportions – multiply as needed. I typically multiply by six to give me several weeks worth of demi-glace ice cubes.
/dev/null: /dev·nuhl/, n.
[from the Unix null device, used as a data sink] A notional ‘black hole' in any information space being discussed, used, or referred to. A controversial posting, for example, might end «Kudos to rasputin@kremlin.org, flames to /dev/null». See bit bucket.
Dissolve soda in boiling water and pour over chocolate and let cool. Beat butter and sugar to a cream, add the eggs and other things. Bake in layers.
Dianne's Southwestern Cornbread Salad is as colorful as it is delicious.
Did you know that...
Dives-sur-Mer, a small port and seaside resort of north-western France on the coast of the department of Calvados, on the Dives, 15 m. N.E. of Caen by road. Pop. (1906) 3286. Dives is celebrated as the harbour whence William the Conqueror sailed to England in 1066. In the porch of its church (14th and 15th centuries) a tablet records the names of some of his companions. The town has a picturesque inn, adapted from a building dating partly from the 16th century, and market buildings dating from the 14th to the 16th centuries. The coast in the vicinity of Dives is fringed with small watering-places, those of Cabourg (to the west) and of Beuzeval and Houlgate (to the east) being practically united with it. There are large metallurgical works with electric motive power close to the town.
The dog (Q144 on Wikidata) is the name of a four legged mammal
that enjoys things such as running, eating, and sleeping. They are
common to find in houses around the world as pets as well as working
animals (like on farms, with the police, in the army, in therapy, as
well as in other work).
Thanks to man's ability to selectively breed animals, our ancestors, during the Late Pleistocene (roughly between c. 129,000 and c. 11,700 years ago), were able to domesticate wolves when humans were just hunter-gatherers, and in fact, it is thought that the dog was the first animal we were able to domesticate.
Thanks to this, the dog has often been cited as «man's best friend», that is to say, the dog will always be man's friend, as the dog will unconditionally love us.
The 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica talks about dogs, albeit in a clinical way:
DOG, the English generic term for the quadruped of the domesticated variety of Canis[.]
[...]
The dog is generally easily managed, and although H. C. Brooke of Welling, Kent, succeeded in making a wolf fairly tractable, the experience of others has been the reverse of encouraging. G. Cuvier gives an interesting account of a young wolf which, having been trained to follow his master, showed affection and submission scarcely inferior to the domesticated dog. During the absence from home of his owner the wolf was sent to a menagerie, but pined for his master and would scarcely take any food for a considerable time. At length, however, he became attached to his keepers and appeared to have forgotten his former associate. At the end of eighteen months his master returned, and, the moment his voice was heard, the wolf recognized him and lavished on him the most affectionate caresses. A still longer separation followed, but the wolf again remembered his old associate and showed great affection upon his return. Such an association proves that there is very little difference between the dog and the wolf in recognition of man as an object of affection and veneration. H. C. Brooke succeeded in training his wolf so well that it was no uncommon sight to see the latter following his master like a dog. The wolf did not like strangers, however, and was very shy in their presence.
Dogs and humans, it is fair to say, are best friends. Where there is a dog, there are humans, and where there are humans, dog is not far behind.
If you're a wild wolf who is living around 30,000 years ago, there are some noticeable benefits to living with humans, namely...
So, if you are a wolf and are considering becoming a domestic animal, there are some of the pros. Admittedly, it's only a short list, but this will greatly increase your life. Not only are you happier (humans and dogs release a happy hormone when together (oxytocin)), but also your life expectancy will go up as well.
It's difficult to reject this win-win offer, especially as hunting can be hard for you, even at the best of times; the same goes for keeping warm. Humans also know how to make shelter, or be it a rather rudimentary one at the moment, but a shelter nonetheless, so any pups you may have will have a better chance of entaring adulthood and breeding: Your family tree could last for countless years!
guuuRUF!!!
\ __
_ \ / \
(( / 0 0)
\\___\/ _o)
( |
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|_)_) |_)_)Guuuruf back at you, ASCII dog!
Some famous dogs include, but not limited to:
Due to our close connection, dogs in folklore, media, as well as written stories have and will keep appearing. Here is just a small collection of made-up dogs:-
Soft and fluffy sweet buns filled-up with creamy Azuki red bean paste.
Mix eggs, sugar and butter; add sour milk or buttermilk with soda dissolved. Then stir in flour with baking powder added.
Do not roll too thin.
Have lard boiling when you drop in the doughnuts. A slice of raw potato in the lard will prevent the lard taste.
Very good for a dyspeptic.
Beat the eggs to a froth, put in the rice and flour, bake on rather hot griddle greased with butter–eat with sugar and cinnamon.
Quick and simple bread spread.
Make up at night and in morning drop from spoon into pan. Bake in a quick oven.
We'll bring your friends and ours to this large dinner. It works the better eaten before witnesses. - Cartwright.
Pinto beans cooking with beer, what beer you use can change the dish.
Take two young ducks, wash and dry out thoroughly; rub outside with salt and pepper–lay in roasting pan, breast down. Cut in half one good sized onion and an apple cut in half (not peeled). Lay around the ducks and put in about one and one-half pints hot water. Cover with lid of roasting pan and cook in a medium hot oven.
In an hour turn ducks on back and add a teaspoon of tart jelly. Leave lid off and baste frequently.
In another hour the ducks are ready to serve. Pour off fat in pan. Make thickening for gravy (not removing the onion or apple).
For the filling, take stale loaf of bread, cut off crust and rub the bread into crumbs, dissolve a little butter (about one tablespoon), add that to the crumbs. Salt and pepper to taste and as much parsley as is desired. Mix and stuff the ducks.
From the standpoint of Science, Health, Beauty and Usefulness, the Art of Cooking leads all the other arts, for does not the preservation of the race depend upon it?
- L. P. K.
Delicious milk toffee used on desserts or as a spread. Substitute for Nootella or similar «food». It is very demanding, so i only recommend you make it if you either can't buy industrial dulce de leche (It will be way more natural than other sweets anyway), or have the time and interest to go through the process. It can be made more easily with sweetened condensed milk, but if you have access to it, you can get DDL anyways.
Two cupfuls of flour, two heaping teaspoons of baking powder, one-half teaspoon of salt and one cupful of sweet milk. Stir and drop in small spoonfuls into plenty of water, in which meat is boiling. Boil with cover off for fifteen minutes, then put cover on and boil ten minutes longer. These are very fine with either beef or chicken.
E-Mail (electronic mail or email, Email, and variants) is a technology allowing to send and receiving messages over a computer network; it is one of the most used services of the Internet.
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"""----"""The Earth (Q2 on Wikidata) is located in the Solar System and is our native home
planet. One of the reasons why there is life on this planet is thanks to
the Sun giving us the light we need, the large amount of water (which
covers about 71% of the planet's surface). Scientists think life on
Earth began about 4 billion years ago.
Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the fifth largest in the Solar System, it has an ellipsoid shape. It has formed from space dust nearly 4.5 billion years ago during the formation of our Solar System. Soon after its formation it was struck by a Mars-sized body, called Theia, which led to the formation of the Moon, Earth's only natural satellite.
The 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica talks about Earth:
The terrestrial globe is a member of the Solar system, the third in distance from the Sun, and the largest within the orbit of Jupiter.
[...]
In its earliest history the mass now consolidated as the Earth and Moon was part of a vast nebulous aggregate, which in the course of time formed a central nucleus-our Sun-which shed its outer layers in such a manner as to form the solar system[.] The moon may have been formed from the Earth in a similar manner, but the theory of tidal friction suggests the elongation of the Earth along an equatorial axis to form a pear-shaped figure, and that in the course of time the protuberance shot off to form the Moon[.] The age of the Earth has been investigated from several directions, as have also associated questions related to climatic changes, internal temperature, orientation of the land and water (permanence of oceans and continents)[.]
One unique thing about our Earth is that it is deeply, deeply lonely. As far as we are aware, no other planet can sustain life, and so we as Earthlings are alone, so we make art, we sing songs, fall in love, hunt and kill, start wars, and destroy empires.
One serving should be enough to cover a pizza. The sauce can be stored in the refrigerator for ~16 days if put into a conserving jar.
Rice is easy to make in any pot.
The simple use of different spices can change its use or what it accents.
For Mexican rice, you might want to avoid cooking in stock to avoid taste clashes.
Pour a little boiling water over 1 quart of meal to scald it. Add a little salt and stir in yolks of 3 eggs, 1 cup milk, 1 tablespoon of lard and butter melted. Add the whites last, well beaten.
Bake in a moderate oven till well done–almost an hour.
Beat eggs lightly and add crushed cracker crumbs till it forms a thick paste, then thin with a little milk. Season with finely cut onion, pepper and salt. Fry in butter, like pancakes. Very good and something different.
God sends meat and the devil sends cooks.
- John Taylor (1578 - 1653;Q1029080on Wikidata).
Egg rolls, but, you know, in a bowl.
Grate or mince ginger finely. Process with the garlic cloves by grinding with salt under the edge of a knife. Finely mince the onion. Optional Marinade the ground turkey in 2 Tbsp of soy sauce and 1 tsp baking soda for 15 minutes to improve browning.
In a hot wok or skillet add a few tablespoons of cooking oil, preferably peanut, and a tsp of sesame oil. Add the ground turkey and cook until no longer raw seasoning with soy sauce.
Add the onion and cook until translucent and the meat is nicely browned. Add in the garlic and ginger mixture and cook for approximately 1 minute or until fragrant ensuring not to burn the garlic.
Add in the coleslaw mix and season with more soy sauce. Cook until the cabbage is just softened. Add 1/4 cup of hoisin sauce and stir to combine. Check seasoning and add salt to taste. Serve in a bowl with sweet chili sauce and green onions.
Eggs are great. This page will contain all sorts of «basic» ways of having an egg.
Tip: if your eggs are cracking when you put them in boiling water, you might improve your chances of them not doing so by first warming them up in warm water for a few minutes beforehand.
Scrambled eggs are easy to customize. E.g. start by frying any of: onions, bits of ham, mushrooms, chopped tomatoes, etc., before cracking the eggs in.
Not to be confused with emoticons.
Emoji (a word that is already plural, such as «sheep»; Q1049294
on Wikidata) should not be confused with
emoticons. Emotions are somewhat alike, but are text-only
:~).
The history of emoji starts in Japan in the 1990s. During this time, phone carriers realized that it was possible to not only send text messages with, well, text in them, but also simple smiling face icons, this was a unique
Maybe the biggest category of emojis are the flags. In layman's terms, there's alotta flags, so many that it can be almost overwhelming.
The problem with flags in emoji is this:
Sometimes it's in little ways that don't really matter, like
France 🇫🇷 changing the colors a little, but sometimes it's
in a big way, like with Afghanistan 🇦🇫 in 2021. Depending
on what you're reading this on, you might even be seeing the old
Afghanistan flag.
There's the Pride flag (🏳️🌈) and the transgender flag
(🏳️⚧️), yes, but no lesbian, gay, bisexual flags. Unicode
themselves have suggested alternatives, such as 💙💜💖 for
an alternative bisexual flag, although it is a bit disappointing that
this is the best the queer community gets.
With that said, we will also tread into the problem of «why isn't my flag here» from above. Let's say that Unicode do add the bi, gay, lesbian flags - why not the pansexual flag? How about the asexual pride flag? Why not the...? and so on.
It's a club of who is and is not a country: Why is my country not here? Why don't people see it as a legitimate state of its own?
There are no US state flags or any flags of states... well, apart from
England (🏴), Scotland (🏴), Cymru
(🏴) but no flag for Northern Ireland, as the government
and parliament were abolished in 1973, so the de facto is the Union
Flag, 🇬🇧.
There have been proposals in the past for there to be US state flags, but this was rejected. Like the above point, if this were added, state flags would change. This proposal was made in 2017; since then Minnesota, Mississippi, and Utah have all changed their flags radically.
In 2022, Unicode made a blog post, The
Past and Future of Flag Emoji where they say that they will no
longer be adding any more flags of any kind. Despite this, there have
been new flags added, like in 2025
with the southwestern English Channel island, Sark
🇨🇶.
During the late 1990s, Microsoft wanted to come up with a unique way
of sending text over the Internet, so a team made up of Vincent Connare,
Sue Lightfoot, Ian Patterson, and Geraldine Wade was made for such a job
on a project that would turn into Webdings that has now
become a part of one of the core fonts for the Web; fonts like Arial,
Courier New, Impact (AKA the meme font), Times New Roman, Comic Sans and
course Webdings as well as others not listed were created as a standard
pack of fonts for the World Wide Web, available as executable files
(.exe) on Windows as well as archive files
(.sit.hqx) for Mac users.
These fonts were published as freeware, although be it under a proprietary license that has some restrictions on distribution.
Out of all the fonts, Comic Sans might be the most well-known, as it is loved as much as it is hated. Famously, it tries to emulate the fonts used in comic books, and yes, it does a good job at that, and it is friendly and approachable, although this unprofessional font has been used on all sorts of things, from signs on shops to gravestones.
It's a font that anyone can and will use, for better and for worse. Comic Sans is also used for computer games, like in Toby Fox's indie darling of a game, Undertale, by the character Sans, whose speech bubbles are in this font.
Another unique font is Webdings (that, like Comic Sans, was also made
by Vincent Connare) that is more of a set of icons more so than a bunch
of fonts. Rather than being a set of letters from A to Z, Webdings is
unique in that it is shapes and symbols - think of it as a precursor to
emoji. There is a spider Webding 🕷 (U+1F577), an alien 👽︎
(U+1F47D), a dove 🕊 (U+1F54A), a dog 🐕︎ (U+1F415). As of June 2014, the
Unicode Standard made these official emojis when version 7.0 was
released.
Possibly one of the stranger Webdings, and now emoji, is 🕴︎
(U+1F574), or to give it its full title,
Man in Business Suit Levitating. This symbol's history
actually goes back all the way to 1944 with the birth of Peter Tosh
(1944-08-19 - 1987-09-11) who was a Jamaican singer and member of Bob
Marley and The Wailers, and whose silhouette was used for the logo on
what is now the defunct 2 Tone Records.
Bad Manners, Elvis Costello, Madness, The Specials were just some of the names who were a part of 2 Tone Records at some point. And as fate would have it, Vincent Connare was inspired to make the 🕴︎ Webding after looking at an album cover from The Specials, making it into the final cut for this 1997 font.
Pregnant man emoji! It's a man who's pregnant. He's a man... and he's PREGNANT?!... WOAGH.
Emojis are a Japanese export, so a lot of them (⛩️,
👺, 🎎, etc, etc) reflect customs that are not
a thing in the Western side of the world. 🏩 is a
representation of a love hotel, where couples can book
a room for a short time and have sex.
The gun emoji, or water gun depending on where you view it. A bit of
a strange addition to the emoji catalog, but isn't the only violent
emoji (🔪, 💣) - still, the gun emoji came
under fire (ha) due to the real world issue of gun violence, and calls
were made to change it. There have been a few designs over the years
from companies for this particular emoji, like a gun-gun, a ray gun, and
a watergun.
Since the calls were made, most websites and phone companies have changed it to a water gun, including Twitter, although it has since gone back on this decision.
Emojis can be used as a shorthand and a double entendre for sex and sexual activities. For example, the eggplant emoji can mean an eggplant or, if you're a total and utter pervert, a penis.
The peach is someone's bottom, water can mean cum, 👅 is
oral sex, you get the point.
Depending on what you're viewing this on, the rockstar emoji (is that its actual name?) was designed to have face paint that is a reference to David Bowie as it was made around the same time as the singer's death in 2016.
See also: ASCII art.
Not to be confused with emoji.
Emoticon (a portmanteau of «emotion» and «icon»; Q31963 on
Wikidata) is a short group of text characters
that together by their look resemble a simple picture, very often a
facial expression (but also other common symbols), for example
:-), O_O or =[ can all mean
happy, shock, and sadness, in that order. Emoticons are used to
communicate feelings and emotions in text-only communication, such as
Internet chat, such as that of IRC, where body
language is missing to provide this function. Emoticons are different
from emoji (which serve basically the same
purpose but are true, small pictures inserted in text) and smileys
(smiling faces, both emoticon and emoji).
The history of emoticons reaches far back before computers, possibly even to the 17th century; the
invention of emoticons in computer communication is generally attributed
to American Scott Fahlman, who, as a teacher in 1982, suggested marking
jokes on the school BBS with :-), exactly for the reason
that some people didn't get jokes because of the absence of body
language.
There are different types of emoticons, mainly
Western, which are 90 degrees flipped,
e.g. :-) or :{ (the nose symbol is sometimes
missing), and Eastern, which are not flipped,
e.g. <[o_o]> or (^.^). Western ones can
additionally also be flipped, e.g. (-: instead of
:-), but doing it is not very common.
The Ephirium Wiki (as located on Git) is a wiki started in early 2026 by Zakhar Limar (also called EZS Ephir), a Ukrainian who was inspired by the LRS Wiki - currently the wiki itself is not that large, only made up of just 8 unique pages that are not that long.
The writings on the wiki seem to come from the point of view of an angry teen; for example, on the World article, Limar writes in a pesamistic way; «everything is extremely fucked up», they write;
A lot of things aren't genuine anymore. Art, music, entertainment, everything is made for money. You are constantly bombarded with ads, while a sane man considers it evil and unethical, a brainwashed sheep considers it good because it improves economy and increases sales, he will not think about ethical problems of advertisement because economy is his religion.
It's difficult to get a full understanding of this wiki as a whole as it's so young in its life; a lot of the pages are very short and lacking any real impact on the reader currently, although one of the pages, called Useful advice, is oddly hopeful in the landscape of other wikis that take notes from the LRS Wiki. This page tries to inspire the reader, that even if they get burned out, that they «[should] do something that you are lazy to do only for 5 minutes a day»:
One of the examples where you can try it is in physical workout. Let's say you are beginner it is hard for you to do a lot of exercises at the same day. Simply do 3 sets of push-ups for one minute. Do it at least for a week, and you will get the feeling of transforming your workout from forced action into habit.
Still, as said above, this wiki is relatively new, and it's hard to say what it will be like in the long run; if it will be like the LRS Wiki and a mix of pessimistic views, it is hard to say.
Erwtensoep, also called snert, is the Dutch version of pea soup. Slices of rookworst (smoked sausage) are added before serving. The soup, which is traditionally eaten during the winter, is emblematic of Dutch cuisine. It is customarily served with Frisian rye bread (roggebrood) and bacon, cheese or butter. Pancakes are sometimes served with pea soup; this dish is called snert met struif, struif referring to the pancakes.
In the aftermath and devastation of the two World Wars, a number of far-sighted European leaders in the late 1940s sought to respond to the overwhelming desire for peace and reconciliation on the continent. In 1950, French Foreign Minister Robert SCHUMAN proposed pooling the production of coal and steel in Western Europe, which would bring France and West Germany together and be open to other countries as well. The following year, the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) was set up when six members – Belgium, France, West Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands – signed the Treaty of Paris.
Within a few years, the ECSC was so successful that member states decided to further integrate their economies. In 1957, envisioning an «ever closer union,» the Treaties of Rome created the European Economic Community (EEC) and the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom), which eliminated trade barriers among the six member states to create a common market. In 1967, the institutions of all three communities were formally merged into the European Community (EC), creating a single Commission, a single Council of Ministers, and a legislative body known today as the European Parliament. Members of the European Parliament were initially selected by national parliaments, but direct elections began in 1979 and have been held every five years since.
In 1973, the first enlargement of the EC added Denmark, Ireland, and the UK. The 1980s saw further membership expansion, with Greece joining in 1981 and Spain and Portugal in 1986. The 1992 Treaty of Maastricht laid the basis for further cooperation in foreign and defense policy and judicial and internal affairs, as well as the creation of an economic and monetary union – including a common currency. The Maastricht Treaty created the European Union (EU), at the time standing alongside the EC. In 1995, Austria, Finland, and Sweden joined the EU/EC, raising the total number of member states to 15. On 1999-01-01, the new euro (€; currency code: EUR) currency was launched in world markets and became the unit of exchange for all EU member states except Denmark, Sweden, and the UK. In 2002, citizens of the 12 participating member states began using euro banknotes and coins.
In an effort to ensure that the EU could function efficiently with an expanded membership, the Treaty of Nice in 2000 set forth rules to streamline the size and procedures of the EU's institutions. An effort to establish a «Constitution for Europe,» growing out of a Convention held in 2002-2003, foundered when it was rejected in referenda in France and the Netherlands in 2005. A subsequent effort in 2007 incorporated many features of the rejected draft Constitutional Treaty, while also making a number of substantive as well as symbolic changes. The new treaty, referred to as the Treaty of Lisbon, sought to amend existing treaties rather than replace them. The treaty was approved at a conference of member states, and after all member states ratified, the Lisbon Treaty came into force on 2009-12-01, at which point the EU officially replaced and succeeded the EC.
Ten new countries joined the EU in 2004 – Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia. Bulgaria and Romania joined in 2007 and Croatia in 2013.
UK citizens on 2016-06-23 narrowly voted to leave the EU; the formal exit, widely known as «Brexit,» took place on 2020-01-31. The EU and the UK negotiated a withdrawal agreement that included a status quo transition period through December 2020, when the follow-on EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement was concluded. Current EU membership stands at 27. Eight of the newer member states – Croatia, Cyprus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Slovakia, and Slovenia – have now adopted the euro, bringing total euro-zone membership to 20.
Description: a blue field with 12 five-pointed gold stars arranged in a circle in the center; blue stands for the sky of the Western world, and the stars for unity, solidarity, and harmony
Meaning: the number of stars is fixed and does not correspond to the number of member states
Some or all of the text was taken from OpenFactBook, a fork of The World Factbook by the CIA - work is CC0.
Two cupfuls of white flour (sifted), two cupfuls of graham or entire wheat flour (sifted if one chooses), one-half cup of New Orleans molasses, little salt, two cupfuls of milk or water, one cupful of walnut meats (cut up fine), one teaspoonful of soda dissolved in milk, about two tablespoons melted butter. Let raise 20 minutes. Bake about one hour in moderate oven.
Simple seasoning mix similar to Old El Paso. Can be used for any Mexican dishes or plain meats.
Falaise, a town of north-western France, capital of an arrondissement in the department of Calvados, on the right bank of the Ante, 19 m. S. by E. of Caen by road. Pop. (1906) 6215. The principal object of interest is the castle, now partly in ruins, but formerly the seat of the dukes of Normandy and the birthplace of William the Conqueror. It is situated on a lofty crag overlooking the town, and consists of a square mass defended by towers and flanked by a small donjon and a lofty tower added by the English in the 15th century; the rest of the castle dates chiefly from the 12th century. Near the castle, in the Place de la Trinité, is an equestrian statue in bronze of William the Conqueror, to whom the town owed its prosperity. The churches of La Trinité and St Gervais combine the Gothic and Renaissance styles of architecture, and St Gervais also includes Romanesque workmanship. A street passes by way of a tunnel beneath the choir of La Trinité. Falaise has populous suburbs, one of which, Guibray, is celebrated for its annual fair for horses, cattle and wool, which has been held in August since the 11th century. The town is the seat of a subprefecture and has tribunals of first instance and commerce, a chamber of arts and manufacture, a board of trade-arbitrators and a communal college. Tanning and important manufactures of hosiery are carried on.
From 1417, when after a siege of forty-seven days it succumbed to Henry V., king of England, till 1450, when it was retaken by the French, Falaise was in the hands of the English.
Can be served over rice or on its own with a dollop of yogurt.
Farcies tomates with rice.
Fascism is a political ideology defined by the following:
What is a nation? A nation is a shared cultural or political identity. It is not strictly the same as a government (legal body), a country (geography), or an ethnicity (culture), although it may be defined along those lines. It is also not to be confused with a state (monopoly on power).
Social radix: For fascists, national identity is the root of all society.
Fascism positions itself as against democracy and against Marxism. It is anti-liberal and anti-socialist (especially anti-communist), and instead occupies the «Third Position».
Fascism is more dedicated to order rather than justice. All individuals are expected to have a duty to protect the Nation-State and uphold its interests and values. Any concept of «the greater good» beyond the national interest is mostly nonexistent. All that matters is preserving «law and order», i.e. preserving the superiority of your own nation above others. This focus on stability, discipline, hierarchy, and national pride permeates all of society.
Hearty soup with lots of veggie and protein.
FIGlet (originally called newban;
Q1388579
on Wikidata) is the name of an old-school but
cute computer program that can be ran via your
terminal that will take ASCII art fonts and
generates them into text banners.
For example, if a person were to run a command like
figlet -f drummy Hello!, then this tells their computer to
open up figlet, use the drummy font
(-f drummy) and to write Hello!, so we get an
output that looks like this:
mdk@wikk:~$ figlet -f drummy Hello!
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|_| |_| \___] \_\\_\ \___/(_)There are a lot of default fonts found in the FIGlet program, like ones based on the Doom logo, a USA flag one, space-themed ones, and others that you can find for yourself.
The name FIGlet is actually a bit of an acronym, standing for Frank [Sheeran], Ian [Chai] and Glenn [Chappell]'s letters, although it appears that Frank Sheeran was more of an inspiration to start the work on FIGlet rather than actually working on it after Ian Chai and Glenn Chappell were inspired after seeing his E-Mail signature. Work on the program started off in 1991 under the name of newban (retroactively called FIGlet 1.0), as written in C, although it only had one font that was in lowercase.
The original source code for newban was actually deleted, having to be sent to Glenn Chappell as he didn't feel it was worth living on his computer.
1993 saw the real start of FIGlet 2.0 after 7 months of work, with 888 lines of code and 13 fonts.
The FIGlet program uses .flf files. These are actually
quite useful, as each one contains all the individual given font in what
is basically a plain text file. This also means, with any given text
editor, you can change how a font looks like.
Making your own font isn't hard, and in fact, it's actually fun and relaxing to work on.
There are a number of ways to make filling:
All taken from The Suffrage Cook Book (1915).
No directions were given in the original text.
Mix well and cook to consistency of custard, and fill the pastry which is turned up and made into the shape of a tart.
Juice and grated rind of an orange or lemon. Let it come to a boil.
Cook tomato juice until it thickens, add cheese, beef and egg last; if the mixture is too thick, add cream.
Soak the magic yeast cake in a little luke warm water. Add a little flour to this, and let it stand an hour. Boil the potatoes in 2 quarts water: when soft put through sieve and then set aside to cool in the potato water. Add to this the lard, salt and sugar.
About 4 in the afternoon put the liquid in large bread riser. Add about 3 quarts of flour, beat thoroughly for at least 10 minutes; now add dissolved yeast to it; let sponge rise until going to bed and then stiffen. Knead until dough does not stick to the hands about 20 to 25 minutes. It will double in size. In morning put in bread pans and let rise one hour or more. Bake in moderately hot oven one hour.
Many persons prefer stiffening the bread in the morning. In this case set the sponge later in the evening and allow it to rise all night, stiffening with the flour in the morning instead of the evening. Of course this allows the baking to be rather late in the day.
This recipe was written by Joseph McCormick (1877 - 1925; Q436272 on
Wikidata) who was an American newspaper
publisher and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for the
Republicans.
Finger binary (Q3272499
on Wikidata) is a unique way of counting on
your fingers. Most people, at least in the Western World, would count
from one of their thumbs, then index finger with the thumb still up and
so on until they reach ten, or at max 20 if one bends their fingers half
way. With finger binary, it is easily possible to count to 31 on just
one hand and 512 on both.
To start, 0 would be all of your fingers closed, 1 would be your right thumb open, 2 is just your index finger, then 3 is your thumb and index open.
For those who know binary, this is going to seem very familiar and can see where this is going. Each finger represents a number, doubling in size each time by a power of 2 each time.
On your right hand:
| Right hand | What it equals |
|---|---|
| Closed fist | 0 |
| Thumb | 1 |
| Index finger | 2 |
| Middle finger | 4 |
| Ring finger | 8 |
| Pinky finger | 16 |
...but wait, there's more!
If we carry on using our left hand to count, it is possible to count a lot higher:
| Left hand | What it equals |
|---|---|
| Closed fist | 0 |
| Thumb | 32 |
| Index finger | 64 |
| Middle finger | 128 |
| Ring finger | 256 |
| Pinky finger | 512 |
So, if you wanted to show 19, for example, you would stick out your right thumb, right pointing finger, and right little finger, 17 would be sticking out your right little finger and right thumb. It's rather easy to follow once you've had some practice.
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0 would be a closed fist:
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1 would be just the thumb:
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Getting the hang of finger binary isn't that difficult, and in fact it can be learnt in a matter of weeks, if that. The only problem is that it's a bit if a niche thing to know, if not a bit of a party trick. But still, getting the hang of it can be useful, especially if you're counting to yourself for whatever reason and need to remember a number greater than 10.
With that said, it's not perfect. Very few counting systems can be without issues. For finger binary, it comes down to that sometimes, some numbers are not the easiest to spell out with your fingers: the number 9, your thumb and ring finger, can kind of hurt, for example.
There are other things like, there being better counting systems that you can do with your body. You could go even higher if you bend your fingers half way and then fully, for example.
But still, to repeat, probably the biggest issue with finger binary is the fact it isn't known that well. This isn't a fault of it, of course, but the traditional way of counting (1 finger always equals 1) will, for the moment, be king.
This soup is also known as Lohikeitto.
Select bright red apples, cut off the tops and with a knife remove the meat, leaving only sufficient wall to hold apple in shape. Make a filling of the following:
To six apples allow about twelve tablespoons of very dry cooked rice, six tablespoons cracker crumbs, six tablespoons chopped apples, six tablespoons sugar, six tablespoons seeded raisins, six tablespoons chopped almonds.
Whip one egg thoroughly, place in a cup and fill the cup with milk; stir well and place in a double boiler, adding one-half teaspoon butter, grated rind and juice of one-half lemon and a dash of nutmeg. Cook until it thickens, cool, then mix it into the filling, being careful not to get it too soft. Mold lightly with the fingers and fill the apples, sprinkle with sugar, add a cupful of water and bake in a moderate oven. Serve with whipped cream or custard sauce.
Best served with white rice
This should be on hand in every household where children gladden the hearth. Wherever possible distribute it among the little children of the poor.
A recipe for Flammkuchen a very thin crust pizza-like dish - it originates from Elsass, a French region close to where I grew up. I like the recipe because it takes 10 minutes to prepare and another 10 minutes to bake. It goes well with a green salad as a side.
I usually take it down from the baking tray and let it cool down for 2-5 minutes before eating
Chop cooked spinach very fine and season with butter and salt. Put 1 tablespoon spinach in each buttered individual casserole, sprinkle with 1 teaspoon grated Parmesan cheese, and slip into each an egg. Cover each egg with 1/2 teaspoon grated Parmesan cheese and 1 teaspoon Bechamel sauce.
Bake until the eggs are set, and serve immediately. This makes a delicious entree.
A swiss classic for cold winter dinners. Traditionally cooked in a «Caquelon» pot and served on a candle heated stove, to keep the cheese from going solid again.
foo: /foo/
1. interj. Term of disgust.
2. [very common] Used very generally as a sample name for absolutely anything, esp. programs and files (esp. scratch files).
3. First on the standard list of metasyntactic variables used in syntax examples. See also bar, baz, qux, quux, garply, waldo, fred, plugh, xyzzy, thud.
When ‘foo' is used in connection with ‘bar' it has generally traced to the WWII-era Army slang acronym FUBAR (‘Fucked Up Beyond All Repair' or ‘Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition'), later modified to foobar. Early versions of the Jargon File interpreted this change as a post-war bowdlerization, but it it now seems more likely that FUBAR was itself a derivative of ‘foo' perhaps influenced by German furchtbar (terrible) - ‘foobar' may actually have been the original form.
For, it seems, the word ‘foo' itself had an immediate prewar history in comic strips and cartoons. The earliest documented uses were in the Smokey Stover comic strip published from about 1930 to about 1952. Bill Holman, the author of the strip, filled it with odd jokes and personal contrivances, including other nonsense phrases such as «Notary Sojac» and «1506 nix nix». The word «foo» frequently appeared on license plates of cars, in nonsense sayings in the background of some frames (such as «He who foos last foos best» or «Many smoke but foo men chew»), and Holman had Smokey say «Where there's foo, there's fire».
According to the Warner Brothers Cartoon Companion Holman claimed to have found the word «foo» on the bottom of a Chinese figurine. This is plausible; Chinese statuettes often have apotropaic inscriptions, and this one was almost certainly the Mandarin Chinese word fu (sometimes transliterated foo), which can mean «happiness» or «prosperity» when spoken with the rising tone (the lion-dog guardians flanking the steps of many Chinese restaurants are properly called «fu dogs»). English speakers' reception of Holman's ‘foo' nonsense word was undoubtedly influenced by Yiddish ‘feh' and English ‘fooey' and ‘fool'.
Holman's strip featured a firetruck called the Foomobile that rode on two wheels. The comic strip was tremendously popular in the late 1930s, and legend has it that a manufacturer in Indiana even produced an operable version of Holman's Foomobile. According to the Encyclopedia of American Comics, ‘Foo' fever swept the U.S., finding its way into popular songs and generating over 500 ‘Foo Clubs.' The fad left ‘foo' references embedded in popular culture (including a couple of appearances in Warner Brothers cartoons of 1938-39; notably in Robert Clampett's «Daffy Doc» of 1938, in which a very early version of Daffy Duck holds up a sign saying «SILENCE IS FOO!») When the fad faded, the origin of «foo» was forgotten.
One place «foo» is known to have remained live is in the U.S. military during the WWII years. In 1944-45, the term ‘foo fighters' was in use by radar operators for the kind of mysterious or spurious trace that would later be called a UFO (the older term resurfaced in popular American usage in 1995 via the name of one of the better grunge-rock bands). Because informants connected the term directly to the Smokey Stover strip, the folk etymology that connects it to French «feu» (fire) can be gently dismissed.
The U.S. and British militaries frequently swapped slang terms during the war (see kluge and kludge for another important example) Period sources reported that ‘FOO' became a semi-legendary subject of WWII British-army graffiti more or less equivalent to the American Kilroy. Where British troops went, the graffito «FOO was here» or something similar showed up. Several slang dictionaries aver that FOO probably came from Forward Observation Officer, but this (like the contemporaneous «FUBAR») was probably a backronym . Forty years later, Paul Dickson's excellent book «Words» (Dell, 1982, ISBN 0-440-52260-7) traced «Foo» to an unspecified British naval magazine in 1946, quoting as follows: «Mr. Foo is a mysterious Second World War product, gifted with bitter omniscience and sarcasm.»
Earlier versions of this entry suggested the possibility that hacker usage actually sprang from FOO, Lampoons and Parody, the title of a comic book first issued in September 1958, a joint project of Charles and Robert Crumb. Though Robert Crumb (then in his mid-teens) later became one of the most important and influential artists in underground comics, this venture was hardly a success; indeed, the brothers later burned most of the existing copies in disgust. The title FOO was featured in large letters on the front cover. However, very few copies of this comic actually circulated, and students of Crumb's oeuvre have established that this title was a reference to the earlier Smokey Stover comics. The Crumbs may also have been influenced by a short-lived Canadian parody magazine named ‘Foo' published in 1951-52.
An old-time member reports that in the 1959 Dictionary of the TMRC Language, compiled at TMRC, there was an entry that went something like this:
FOO: The first syllable of the sacred chant phrase «FOO MANE PADME HUM.» Our first obligation is to keep the foo counters turning.
(For more about the legendary foo counters, see TMRC.) This definition used Bill Holman's nonsense word, then only two decades old and demonstrably still live in popular culture and slang, to a ha ha only serious analogy with esoteric Tibetan Buddhism. Today's hackers would find it difficult to resist elaborating a joke like that, and it is not likely 1959's were any less susceptible. Almost the entire staff of what later became the MIT AI Lab was involved with TMRC, and the word spread from there.
As located within Western Europe, France (officially the French Republic («République française») is the name of a country with that today is one of the most modern countries in the world and is a leader among European nations. It plays an influential global role as a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, NATO, the G-7, the G-20, the EU, and other multilateral organizations.
In July 2021, the estimated population was 68,084,217. Much of the population is concentrated in the north and southeast; although there are many urban agglomerations throughout the country, Paris is by far the largest city, with Lyon ranked a distant second.
The flag of France is made up of three equal vertical bands of blue (hoist side), white, and red; known as the «Le drapeau tricolore» (French Tricolor), the origin of the flag dates to 1790 and the French Revolution when the «ancient French color» of white was combined with the blue and red colors of the Parisian militia; the official flag for all French dependent areas.
Note: the design and/or colors are similar to a number of other flags, including those of Belgium, Chad, Cote d'Ivoire, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, and Netherlands.
A number of locations for Franec are listed on the MDKwiki:
Some or all of the text was [taken from the World Factbook] (source), a work by the federal government of the the United States - all work by the US government lacks copyright.
Due to this using text that was written by the US government, please be aware that might not only be US-centric, but also have a pro-USA agenda.
«Francesinha» date: 2021-03-21 tags: [‘portuguese', ‘beef'] author: artur-mancha -
Francesinha is a traditional dish from the city of Porto. The francesinha in its special sandwich variation consists of linguiça, ham, cold meat and beef steak, covered with melted cheese.
Like pancakes, but very thin.
15 crêpes.
Wash and pare the potatoes and cut into any desired shape. Drain well. Fry in smoking fat until nicely browned, then drain on browned paper. Season well and serve.
French bistrot style porkchops with a mustard, white wine and gherkins sauce. Very quick to cook.
Clean oysters by pouring over 3/4 cup cold water. Drain, reserve liquor, add oysters, slightly chopped, heat slowly to boiling point and let simmer 20 minutes; strain.
Scald milk with onion and mace. Make white sauce and add oyster liquor. Just before serving add egg yolks, slightly beaten.
Beat the eggs very light; melt the butter in the milk; add a little flour and a little milk until all is mixed; then add yeast before all the milk and flour are added.
Make into rolls and bake in a pan.
This should be made up at night and set to rise, and baked the next morning.
This recipe results in five slices of easy to make french toast.
Cut beans lengthwise very thin. Put butter and bacon fat in saucepan. Cut up onion and let it fry to a light brown. Then wash beans and put them in the fat. Add garlic and tomatoes, (cut up) and thyme–a little salt and a little water. Cook.
This is a simple light-flavoured recipe. Anglerfish (I'm referring specifically to the ‘monfish/sea-devil' variant) meat is mild, absorbing the butter and subtle flavours of the herbs. Preparing the anglerfish is an involved process that I'll try and explain to the best of my abilities but watching someone do it would be more then helpful.
Fritatem pomeranciis means «orange omelette» in Latin, but in fact it is a cream made by cooking eggs, which do not coagulate because of orange juice.
It is a medieval recipe, so it had to adapted because some ingredients are no longer available. Some versions include the juice of half a lemon, but the result is rather sour: if you like it, I recommend adding only a few drops thereof.
Very filling egg dish that's easy, fast, and can be eaten at any meal. Any other types of vegetables can be added, this is just what I use the most
For Short Cake.
To 1 pint of milk add 1/2 pint of cream. Scald. Have ready 1 egg, well beaten, 1 scant cup of granulated sugar, and one level tablespoon of cornstarch.
Add this mixture to the milk and cream as soon as they come to a boil. Stir and set aside to cool. When cold, add 1 teaspoon of vanilla and freeze.
Peel and cut one orange and one grapefruit into small pieces, removing all seeds and white bits of skin, add two sliced bananas, a tablespoon of chopped or grated pineapple, sweeten to taste, and mix with the juice from a can of pineapple. Stand in a very cold place, or put in the ice cream freezer and partially freeze, serve in small glasses and ornament with maraschino cherries. Reserve the remaining pineapple for a luncheon dish.
Chop candied cherries, dried figs and stoned dates together; make a paste with a little orange juice, and spread between buttered slices of graham bread.
This is a hearty English breakfast, common in the UK. This recipe is made up largely of ingredients that someone would have in their fridge/cooler, although for an authentic experience, purchasing English back bacon and English sausages would be preferable.
Fumé is a sauce for pasta, typical of central Italy. It is intended to be used in great amounts.
Quantities in this recipe are calculated for servings of 100 g pasta each.
Future-proof technology is that which is very likely to stay functional for a very long time with minimal to no maintenance, even assuming significant changes in the state of technology and society as a whole. In a world of complex, ever-changing technology, such as that of computers, this feature is generally not easy to achieve, but today's consumerist society makes it all yet much worse by focusing on immediate profit without long-term planning and by actually aiming to MITIGATE long-lasting technology via planned obsolescence, by introducing bloat, intentional complexity and obscurity, incompetent developers, unnecessary dependencies, and update culture. With a good approach, such as the one we are advocating, future-proof technology is absolutely possible to be achieved. It doesn't have to be the case that programs rot like food.
A perfect technology is trying to be future-proof because that, of course, saves us the high (and unnecessary) costs of maintenance and reinventing wheels and by this gives its users comfort from being an ever-updating slave and safety from the threat of losing their tools; users of future-proof technology know they can build upon it without fearing it will suddenly break.
Chicken stew ubiquitous in rural Brazil. Perfect pair with rice and beans, polenta or boiled cassava root.
Game of Life (Q244615 on
Wikidata) is a simple mathematical game in
which complex patterns, similar to life, emerge from basic rules. It was
created by John Conway.
Game of Life is a cellular automaton, meaning it is a simulation taking place on a grid in which each of its cells interacts with its neighboring cells. This simulation can effortlessly be run on a computer, but is simple enough to be performed with just a pencil and paper.
The game takes place on an infinite two dimensional grid, each of which can be either dead or alive. Each cell has 8 neighbors (left, right, top, bottom, top left, top right, bottom left, and bottom right). At the beginning, each cell is set to either dead or alive. Then the game proceeds by steps; at each step every cell of the board is updated according to these rules:
................ ................
..##............ ..##............
..##....#....... ..##.....#......
.........##..... ==> ..........#.....
..#.....##...... ........###...#.
..#..........### .###........#..#
..#...#.....###. ............#..#
................ .............#..These 3 simple rules give a rise to very complex patterns.
Game of life is Turing complete, i.e. it is as powerful as any computer and it is possible to make it run programs; it can even run itself, i.e. it is possible to use game of life to simulate another game of life.
A spice mixture for most Indian dishes
Garlic toast, perfect as a substitute for crackers in a cheese platter.
Gelert (also spelled as «Gellert»; Q7401288
on Wikidata) is the name of a Welsh folktale
dog who lived in Beddgelert in Gwynedd (a small
village by Yr Wyddfa with, as of 2021, only around 460 people living
there).
The story of Gelert is a tragic one and is a tale of why you must not
act in anger. The story is set in the 12th or 13th century Medieval Cymru and follows Prince Llywelyn the Great (also
called «Llywelyn ab Iorwerth»; Q467685 on
Wikidata) who was a keen hunter and spent much
of his time in the countryside with his hunting dogs, but his favorite
greyhound was named Gellert, which had been given to him by his
father-in-law, King John.
After a hunt, Prince Llywelyn calls his dogs to his side when he blows his horn, but Gelert is nowhere to be seen, so he calls the hound by his name, but the dog is still nowhere to be seen.
When the prince returns home, he finds, in horror, to see his baby son missing from his now overturned cradle, with Gelert the dog there, blood in his jaws; to quote Joseph Jacobs:
and shouting to Gellert, «Monster, thou hast devoured my child,» he drew out his sword and plunged it in the greyhound's side, who fell with a deep yell and still gazing in his master's eyes.
As Gellert raised his dying yell, a little child's cry answered it from beneath the cradle, and there Llewelyn found his child unharmed and just awakened from sleep. But just beside him lay the body of a great gaunt wolf all torn to pieces and covered with blood. Too late, Llewelyn learned what had happened while he was away. Gellert had stayed behind to guard the child and had fought and slain the wolf that had tried to destroy Llewelyn's heir.
In vain was all Llewelyn's grief; he could not bring his faithful dog to life again. So he buried him outside the castle walls within sight of the great mountain of Snowdon, where every passer-by might see his grave, and raised over it a great cairn of stones. And to this day the place is called Beth Gellert, or the Grave of Gellert, and men say, «I repent me as much as the man that slew his greyhound.»
After this event, it is said that Prince Llywelyn would never smile again.
How based in reality the story of Gelert is up to debate. Modern sources will point out that the original source of this story comes from around 1793 - 1800 by David Prichard, landlord of the Royal Goat Inn in Beddgelert, likely told as a way to boost tourism and business in the area.
According to Encyclopædia Britannica, the date of this event is traditionally given as 1205, and «The incident has given rise to a Welsh proverb, 'I repent as much as the man who slew his greyhound.» The whole story is, however, only the Welsh version of a tale long before current in Europe, which is traced to the Indian Panchatantra and perhaps as far back as 200 B.C.»
Meanwhile, in France, there is a story not unlike this one but with
another greyhound, this time called Guinefort. Llywelyn ab Iorwerth –
who, by the way, was a real person – has been swapped out by a knight
who lives in a castle near Lyon, but apart from that, the story is the
same. Guinefort the dog actually received local veneration as a folk
saint, becoming Saint Guinefort (1554131 on
Wikidata).
So, is the story of Gelert or even Guinefort real? Well, no, but is it doing any real harm? Not really. It's just a cute little story with a tragic ending.
Boil 2 or 3 strings of chicken giblets (about 1 pound) until quite tender, drain, trim from bones and gristle and set aside.
Boil one cup rice in one quart water for fifteen minutes. Drain, put in double boiler with broth from giblets and let boil 1 hour. Brown 1 tablespoon flour in 1 tablespoon butter and 1 teaspoon sugar, add 1 chopped onion, and boiling water until smooth and creamy, then add some bits of chopped pickles or olives, salt, pepper, teaspoonful of vinegar and lastly giblets, cover and let simmer for twenty minutes. Put rice into a chop dish, serve giblets in the center. May be garnished with tomato sauce or creamed mushrooms or pimentos.
For a man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
- Sam'l Johnson (1709 - 1784;Q183266on Wikidata).
Or «Squash in Coconut Milk». This is a common Filipino dish.
Add ginger to taste–about 4 level teaspoons, also lemon extract or grated rind and juice if preferred.
Put flour, sugar and butter together and rub thoroughly. Make hole in center and pour in the molasses in which the soda has been beaten in. Stir all well together, break off enough to roll out; cut, space in pan and bake in very moderate oven.
These keep well, especially in stone crock. This recipe makes a quantity if cut with small cutter.
Asian inspired broccoli dish with tasty sauce. Sauce can be used for all kinds of Asian inspired sauted vegetables.
Bake in slow oven and leave in pan until cold.
A recipe for Glühwein/mulled wine a beverage you can find at almost every European christmas market. This recipe is my favorite one - optimized for flavor rather than alcohol content (it still kicks in).
for 1 liter of Glühwein
Gnocchi is a pasta based on potato, making it a less bloating alternative to other kinds of pasta. They are substantial and can be roasted in butter and other ingredients.
Add sugar gradually and yolks of eggs beaten until thick, add lemon colored extract. Mix and sift flour and baking powder and add alternately with milk to first mixture.
Do not grate sugar over it.
Q5362164
on Wikidata), an American writer of popular
cookbooks during the nineteenth century.Put in buttered pudding dish and steam 3 hours.
Granita is traditionally prepared with lemons, but you can replace them with any other fruit (the riper, the better), provided you peel it. If you do so, you will need to cook it longer and blend with a blender: the flavour must be released to the water and the sugar. You may also want to use a little less sugar, but don't reduce it too much, or you will get solid ice instead of granita.
First bake a shell as for lemon pie, then make a filling as follows: Mix one tablespoon of cornstarch in a little cold water, and over this pour one cupful of boiling water. To this add the juice of two grapefruits, the grated rind and juice of one orange, the beaten yolks of two eggs, and the white of one, and a small piece of butter. Put all in the double boiler and cook until thick, stirring all the time. When done, put in the shell. Now beat up the white of the second egg with one-half a cupful of sugar until thick, and spread with a knife over the pie. Put in the oven and let brown lightly. Serve cold. This makes a delicious pie.
Boil grapes five to ten minutes. Then strain through a wire strainer and afterwards cheese cloth. To every quart of juice add 1 lb. sugar. Bottle and seal.
Soak the grated rind of one orange in the juice of one lemon for 15 minutes. To this add a cupful of boiling water and a tablespoon of sugar.
Place in a saucepan of granite ware and add one quart of unfermented grape juice, four whole cloves and a pinch of powdered mace. Bring slowly to the boiling point and simmer for ten minutes.
Boil together one cupful of sugar and two tablespoons of water without stirring until it spins a thread.
Pour this gradually upon the stiffly beaten whites of two eggs. Add the boiling grape juice, dust lightly with grated nutmeg and serve immediately.
Live while you live, the epicure would say and seize the pleasures of the present day.
- Doddridge (1702 - 1751;Q2718478on Wikidata).
One-half cup walnut catsup, 1 wine glass tomato catsup, 1 small cup sherry (may be omitted), 1 tablespoon butter, rubbed smooth with flour, 1 small onion chopped very fine, 1 teaspoon currant jelly, salt and pepper.
When thoroughly mixed lay slices of the meat in a dish, pour the gravy over, then set dish in the oven until all is well heated through. Serve.
A very simple, delicious, and traditional greek recipe for easter cookies.
Fry in ham or bacon, 1 onion; add 1 cup tomatoes, 1 sprig thyme, 1 clove garlic–parsley. Add beans and 1 cup water. Cook 1 1/2 hours.
grok: /grok/, /grohk/, vt.
[common; from the novel Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert A. Heinlein, where it is a Martian word meaning literally ‘to drink' and metaphorically ‘to be one with'] The emphatic form is grok in fullness.
1. To understand. Connotes intimate and exhaustive knowledge. When you claim to ‘grok' some knowledge or technique, you are asserting that you have not merely learned it in a detached instrumental way but that it has become part of you, part of your identity. For example, to say that you «know» LISP is simply to assert that you can code in it if necessary - but to say you «grok» LISP is to claim that you have deeply entered the world-view and spirit of the language, with the implication that it has transformed your view of programming. Contrast zen, which is similar supernal understanding experienced as a single brief flash. See also glark.
2. Used of programs, may connote merely sufficient understanding. «Almost all C compilers grok the void type these days.»
3. Name of the AI chatbot by xAI, as founded by Elon Musk. Grok is also used for Grokipedia, an AI-generated online encyclopedia.
Grokipedia (Q136410803
on Wikidata) is the name of an AI-powered encyclopedia that was started in October
2025 by Elon Musk as a way to, as he sees it, to remove the «propaganda»
from Wikipedia. The encyclopedia itself is a
fork of Wikipedia, with some pages being a one-to-one of the original,
while others are new and unique ones that were fully written by Grok - the in-house large language model of Twitter
and xAI.
This is unlike, way, Wikipedia, the LRS Wiki, MDKwiki, or even older encyclopedias in that none of the original contents were written by a real human - in fact, it is not possible to directly edit a page. It is possible to suggest an edit and see the history of the page. Due to no human being in the way of Grok making an edit, it is possible for the AI to just have an hallucination while making a change - that is to say, it makes up false or misleading information presented as fact as it does not know better.
Very popular fritter in Italian colonies throughout South Brazil. Not to be mistaken with Venetian Crostoli or Chiacchiere, even though those are still made. My grandmother's recipe is more like Castagnole with Crostoli shape, with some post-Italian adaptations.
A nice recipe that functions as a delicious and fresh appetizer, best eaten with some totopos corn chips, especially in a hot summer day.
Here are the ingredients for about two adult portions:
And of course, some totopos to eat with.
This recipe is best consumed fresh, since the avocado oxidizes pretty fast and might lose its appetizing color and texture in just some hours.
Originally published at https://www.yaroslavps.com/food/fresh-guacamole/
This recipe is a simplified version of AB's Seafood Gumbo – YouTube
Serve while hot, ideally with rice :)
The vegetables used in this soup are flexible. Any orange vegetable can be combined with green. Such as peas or green beans to replace peppers, or carrots and/or squash to replace the sweet potato.
For more flavour, boil down a soup bone and use the broth when filling the crock pot.
Mince a little left-over boiled ham very finely. Warm it in a pan with a piece of butter. Add a little pepper and paprika. When very hot pile on hot buttered toast. Any left-over scraps of fish or meat may be used up in a similar way, and make an excellent savory to serve with a green salad.
🍽️ Servings: 6 patties
🍽️ Servings: 4 patties
Whenever my friends back home would drink to excess, they'd wake up wanting something tasty. I made them what I call «Hangover Eggs». Whether or not you're hungover, they're very delicious! I've recently been making them to gain weight, though you can alter the recipe to whatever suits your lifestyle.
Ideally, you won't even need a fork! Simply use the bread to guide the eggs on top of each piece, break the yolk into the piece, and take a large bite.
My favourite pudding:
Boil the milk. Mix the flour with a little cold milk. Pour the boiling milk onto this and put all back into the saucepan. Let it boil up once more and it is ready. Serve at once.
This recipe was written by Constance Lytton (1869 - 1923; Q6470046
on Wikidata).
Lytton was a Suffrage in her native UK and thought it was true that
there shoudl be prison reform, votes for women, and birth control - she
went on hunger strike while in imprisoned, being force fed. As a way to
stop her from getting special treatment, she went under the fake name of
Jane Warton - she opted for this pseudonym as her father, Robert
Bulwer-Lytton (Q335493)
was the 1st Earl of Lytton and a politician and her mother, Edith
Bulwer-Lytton (Q3719243)
was the Countess of Lytton.
Despite her aid to the cause of giving women the right to vote, Constance Lytton would die at age 54 due to a heart attack and stroke - attributed, in part to, her trauma from hunger strike and force feeding.
Chop finely one pimento, one green pepper freed from seeds, and a small cream cheese; add a good pinch of salt and spread between slices of buttered bread.
If your Oatmeal isn't Hearty Breakfast Oatmeal... Is it even Oatmeal?
Stem currants and seed cherries, then measure fruit. To each cup of fruit allow equal amount of sugar. Put the fruit in kettle and add 1/2 cup of water; when it comes to boil add sugar and boil 20 minutes, then put in jelly glasses.
I first learned this recipe from a Bishop I had growing up. It produces quite a good steak despite the unconventional ingredients.
Italian traditional pizza is Neapolitan pizza. This is not it - it's a very different dish that just happens to share the same name (as is the case with many Italian traditional recipes).
There are two recipes for making hermits:
Drop on greased pan and bake.
Dissolve soda in tablespoon hot water. Flour enough to make a stiff batter, drop in small cakes with teaspoon and bake in slow oven.
One large cup chopped hickory nuts and sprinkle a little salt and flour with them. This makes two layers.
Melt-in-mouth fatty pork in a sweet and spicy glaze.
HolyC (Q22709094
on Wikidata) is the programming language
created by Terry A. Davis (Q22708720)
for his TempleOS (Q19961543)
operating system project during his lifetime. The OS itself is full of a
number of Bibalcal references, making people think that the name of
«HolyC» is a pun on the «Holy See», the government of the Roman
Catholic Church and Vatican City.
The language itself is a dialect of C, designed for simplicity, speed, and direct hardware access, made specifically for use in TempleOS.
HolyC is a mix of standard C and custom language features made by Terry, such as support for inline assembly, automatic macros, co-routines, custom syntax for God-inspired input/output, and built-in documentation commands. It runs in a 16:16-bit real mode environment on x86-64 and compiles incredibly fast due to its integrated compiler.
HolyC is not ANSI C, nor GNU C. It doesn't try to be compatible. It tries to be holy.
##include for
divine inspiration)HolyC is a pure manifestation of personal computing, unfiltered, unmanaged, unapologetic. It was written not for companies, not for academia, but for God and for the joy of creation.
In an era of bloated languages, garbage collectors, cloud builds, telemetry, and overengineered type systems, HolyC stands alone: small, insane, and beautiful.
To write a basic Hello World! in HolyC, you would write
something like this:
U0 Hello(){
"Hello World!\n";
}
Hello;This is not so different from C, that would look like this:
main()
{
printf("Hello World!\n");
}Very easy, high protein.
This recipe yields a batch of relatively spicy chicken thighs. If you don't like spicy foods, you can add more honey and less sriracha. Conversely, if you like spicy foods, consider a 1:1 ratio of sriracha and honey.
Honfleur, a seaport of north-western France, in the department of Calvados, 57 m. N.E. of Caen by rail. Pop. (1906) 8735. The town is situated at the foot of a semicircle of hills, on the south shore of the Seine estuary, opposite Havre, with which it communicates by steamboat. Honfleur, with its dark narrow lanes and old houses, has the typical aspect of an old-fashioned seaport. The most noteworthy of its buildings is the church of St Catherine, constructed entirely of timber work, with the exception of the façade added in the 18th century, and consisting of two parallel naves, of which the more ancient is supposed to date from the end of the 15th century. Within the church are several antique statues and a painting by J. Jordaens-«Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane.» The church tower stands on the other side of a street. St Leonard's dates from the 17th century, with the exception of its fine ogival portal and rose-window belonging to the 16th, and its octagonal tower erected in the 18th. The ruins of a 16th-century castle known as the Lieutenance and several houses of the same period are also of antiquarian interest. The hôtel de ville contains a library and a museum. On the rising ground above the town is the chapel of Nôtre-Dame-de-Grâce, a shrine much resorted to by pilgrim sailors, which is said to have been founded in 1034 by Robert the Magnificent of Normandy and rebuilt in 1606. The town has a tribunal and a chamber of commerce and a communal college. The port, which is protected from the west winds by the height known as the Côte de Grâce, consists of the tidal harbour and four floating basins-The West basin, dating from the 17th century, and the Centre, East and Carnot basins. A reservoir affords the means of sluicing the channel and supplying the basins. The surface available for vessels is about 27 acres. Numerous fishing and coasting vessels frequent the harbour. In 1907 there entered 375 vessels, of 133,872 tons, more than half this tonnage being British. The exports go mainly to England and include poultry, butter, eggs, cheese, chocolate, vegetables, fruit, seeds and purple ore. There is regular communication by steamer with Southampton. Timber from Scandinavia, English coal and artificial manures form the bulk of the imports. There are important saw-mills, as well as shipbuilding yards, manufactories of chemical manures and iron foundries.
Honfleur dates from the 11th century and is thus four or five hundred years older than its rival Havre, by which it was supplanted during the 18th century. During the Hundred Years' War it was frequently taken and re-taken, the last occupation by the English ending in 1440. In 1562 the Protestant forces got possession of it only after a regular siege of the suburb of St Leonard; and though Henry IV. effected its capture in 1590 he had again to invest it in 1594 after all the rest of Normandy had submitted to his arms. In the earlier years of the 17th century Honfleur colonists founded Quebec, and Honfleur traders established factories in Java and Sumatra and a fishing establishment in Newfoundland.
Make a plain white sauce and season to taste. When done add 3/4 cup of grated horseradish and 1/2 cup cream.
Very good for meats, especially boiling meat.
Cut cabbage not too fine, heat fat in sauce pan. Wash cabbage and put into that a little water and add onion, cut up, salt and a little pepper. Cook about twenty minutes, then add the sugar and vinegar.
It must be sour-sweet. It is then ready to serve.
When the National Coffee Roasters' Association (ncausa.org) tells how to make good coffee the housewife is naturally interested, no matter how fervently the family may praise her own brew. Coffee is the business of these gentlemen. They know it from the scientific standpoint as well as practically. Their opinion as to the best method of preparing it for the table is, therefore, worth consideration.
They tell us, first of all, that the virtues of the infusion depend primarily upon the fineness with which the roasted bean is ground. Careful experiments have shown, indeed, that when pulverized it gives a larger yield of full strength beverage than in any other shape, so that such grinding is urged in the interest of economy, as well as from a gastronomic standpoint.
The grinding, however, must be done immediately before the coffee is made. Otherwise no little of the delicate and much prized flavor of the bean will escape.
The method of making the infusion is governed by the solubility of the various elements composing the coffee. The caffeine and caffetannic acid readily dissolve in cold water, but the delicate flavoring oils require a considerable degree of heat. It so happens that water at the boiling point, 212 deg. F., is twice as effective in extracting these flavors as when at a temperature of 150 deg. F.
Nevertheless, the usual method of boiling the coffee is unsparingly condemned by the association. The infusion thus made is very high in caffeine and tannic acid. It is muddy, too, and overrich in dissolved fibrous and bitter matters. As most of the deleterious effects of coffee are due to dissolved tannin, owing to excessive boiling or the use of grounds a second time, this method of making the beverage is unqualifiedly condemned.
Steeping–that is, placing the coffee in cold water and permitting it to come to a boil–is also deprecated. An infusion so made contains less caffeine, to be sure, but it lacks the desired aromatic flavor and the characteristic coffee taste.
In fine, the association leans to a method of coffee making known as filtration. This consists in pouring boiling water once through finely pulverized coffee confined in a close-meshed muslin bag. The resultant infusion is one in which the percentage of tannin is extremely low. There is a medium amount of caffeine, but the full flavor and characteristic taste are present.
Cook onion and bacon; add salt and pepper; pour over them 1/2 pint water in which 1/2 teaspoon of extract of beef is added. Add the meat and cook slowly one hour; then add cream with paprika to taste and simmer for two hours. Add a few small potatoes.
(always to be taken with a grain of salt.)
Good for 365 days in the year.
There are a number of recipes for making icing on the MDKwiki:
All taken from The Suffrage Cook Book (1915).
Beat all together and boil until it jellies. For orange cake use oranges instead of lemons.
Boil until it will make a ball in cold water. Then beat until thick enough to spread on cake. Flavor with vanilla.
Boil water and sugar until it threads. Pour over the beaten whites of 4 eggs. Beat until almost cold then add citric acid dissolved in one teaspoon boiling water, flavor with vanilla and spread between layers and over cake.
This keeps a long time in a locked closet.
Cookery has become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.
- Burton.
Wahoo! Stepping away from the screen and living
In Real Life is genuinely one of the best things you
can do. Turn off your computer, put your phone
on silent (or even leave it at home), and go outside. Yeah, it depends
on where you live and the weather, but even a small amount of outside
time can be fun and make you happy :~).
Walk around: Duh, but going on a walk with no real idea on where you want to go to can be nice; maybe visit your local town, there are many nice shops to visit. Go to a café, why the hell not? Sure, you'll be on your own, but people don't care! You're full of confidence; you can do this easily.
Take photos of things: Go to a park and take some nice snaps of stuff. There's a lot of graffiti that you can take pics of and share with your friends.
Sit down on a bench: It's nice just to sit down and look around, not look at your phone and just waste time doing nothing.
Visit a shop or two: Charity shops/second hand shops are nice to browse. Sometimes they have some good books that you can look at, even some DVDs and CDs that are very cheap.
Go to your park: It's free!
Go to a library: It's free!
Visit a museum or gallery: A lot of the time your local museum/gallery will change around what is on show there, so just walking around slowly and reading about the items there can be a relaxing thing to do, plus a lot of the time, your local museum/gallery will be free to enter.
Talk to someone: Fuck it, why the hell not? Trust me, talking to random people is legit effortless if you have confidence.
The quantities below are approximate and should be adjusted according to your taste.
Boil raisins in 1 1/2 cups water twenty minutes.
Mix shortening, sugar, lemon rind, eggs and spices, add one cup flour then raisins drained but still hot. Then the other two cups flour and 1/2 cup of the water in which the raisins were boiled to which add 1 teaspoon bi-carbonate soda.
Bake in gem pans in moderate oven. This makes 30 cakes which can be iced with white or chocolate icing.
2: infix.
In translation software written by hackers, infix 2 often represents the syllable to with the connotation ‘translate to': as in dvi2ps (DVI to PostScript), int2string (integer to string), and texi2roff (Texinfo to [nt]roff). Several versions of a joke have floated around the internet in which some idiot programmer fixes the Y2K bug by changing all the Y's in something to K's, as in Januark, Februark, etc.
Instant noodles with processed spices are quick but not the most healthy. It's important to add fresh veggies and eggs. It's a quick tasty lunch, a life saver when going through a busy period.
Pro tip: Squeeze some remaining lime juice into your drinking water.
Internet Relay Chat, or IRC (Q73 on Wikidata), is the name of an Internet protocol
made in August 1988 by Jarkko «WiZ» Oikarinen during his time at the
University of Oulu in Finland when he wanted to make a program that
could be used for real-time Internet chat and messaging. Unlike, say,
Discord or Skype, IRC is fully free to view its source code and make
your own chat rooms, rooms that are hosted on your own server, meaning
that there is no organization, big or small, that can tell you what you
can and cannot post.
This also means, again, like Discord or Skype, which have or will at some point in time go offline, IRC is a protocol, so it can last as long as computers can last.
The history of IRC is actually long and impressive, covering much of the early Internet.
There are limitations to IRC, much like there are limitations to anything. Some are that to see a message (at least in the vanilla, unmodified version), you actually have to be online and connected to the server, even if someone direct messages you, once you leave, any messages won't come through for you.
If you think of it like real life, an IRC server is like a building with rooms that you can enter and chat in, so once you leave, you no longer get any messages, much like being in a real life party. Something regular IRC uses defatly go to a lot.
IRC is also text only; this is great if you want to view it on an older, slower computer, but to upload and send images, videos, or any files, you're going to have to use a third-party website for that.
IRC can also seem confusing to new users as there are a few commands
that you need to remember, although this is only hard for new people as
they've not done it before. Commands like /join #channel,
/me waves, /nick Cass are
easy to pick up on.
There are, of course, benefits to using IRC, as mentioned above, it can be ran on almost any computer with a keyboard and screen (the thicker the better), unlike Discord, WhatsApp, or others, you can use what is called a client, so think of this as a program that you can use to connect to an IRC server. There are countless clients that one can use, HexChat, Quassel, Halloy, Konversation are all a few examples. With these, you can do a lot with the vanilla client compared to closed-source programs. Change the colors in your screen, change date formats, change font. There was even an IRC client by Microsoft that allows you to make comics with what people post.
Despite it being way after the golden age of IRC, to say it's dead would simply not be true. tilde.chat, for example, is popular for people on the Fediverse and small web, libera.chat is probably the most active server with lots of channels (and is actually used by Wikipedia and sister projects).
Another benefit of IRC is that setting up something like a bot) is actually quite easy.
IRC doesn't always hold your hand and the way it does things is a little different from modern apps, but it's definitely worth chatting on there.
Possibly! IRC itself is good for a number of reasons, as seen above, although there are a number of outdated features, or lack there of, that this protocol has that someone used to more modern forms of online communication might struggle with.
These things include...
No native image, video, or file uploader. If you want to share a file with someone, you're going to have to find a host (Google Drive, OneDrive, etc) that will let you do this.
No way of voice calling. There are workarounds like VoIRC, but this is kind of hacky.
People have to be online for you to message them. On some channels, there are bits that will send a message to a user next time they post in said channel, but this is not the case for every channel ever.
No user profiles. Not a thing, the most you can
do is run a /whois <user> that will say what their
full username is, plus IP address and what channels you're both
in.
Not being able to edit messages. You can't edit a message, or even delete it. Once it's sent, it's sent.
These limits can seem shocking and even confusing as to why someone would want to actually use IRC, but the thing is, IRC is good because it's just you and the other person, no distractions, just raw text.
IRC was cited on The Jargon File, and as the MDKwiki has mirrored that project, here is what the files wrote:
IRC: /I·R·C/, n.
[Internet Relay Chat] A worldwide «party line» network that allows one to converse with others in real time. IRC is structured as a network of Internet servers, each of which accepts connections from client programs, one per user. The IRC community and the Usenet and MUD communities overlap to some extent, including both hackers and regular folks who have discovered the wonders of computer networks. Some Usenet jargon has been adopted on IRC, as have some conventions such as emoticons. There is also a vigorous native jargon, represented in this lexicon by entries marked ‘[IRC]'. See also talk mode.
Did you mean In Real Life?
Bake in a slow oven.
A march before day to dress one's dinner, and a light dinner to prepare one's supper are the best cooks.
- Alexander.
This is a very easy and simple Japanese style ramen noodle soup. This is very cheap to make, and you can really customise this however you wish with the garnish. This is my own spin inspired by other recipes that I found.
See also: MDK: Jargon File.
The Jargon File (also Hacker's
Dictionary; Q1535068
on Wikidata) is a computer hacker dictionary/compendium that's been
collaboratively written and updated by a number of prominent hackers,
such as Richard Stallman and Erik S Raymond, since 1970. It is a chiefly
important part of hacker culture.
The work informally states it's in the public domain and some have successfully published it commercially, although there is no standard waiver or license – maybe because such waivers didn't really exist at the time it was started – and so we have to suppose it is NOT formally free as in freedom. Nevertheless it is freely accessible e.g. at Project Gutenberg and no one will bother you if you share it around... we just wouldn't recommend treating it as true public domain.
Jason Scott (Q6042909
on Wikidata) is an American archivist and
historian specialising in electronic media, software and online
communities, he works at the Internet Archive. Scott is most notable for
his archive website textfiles.com and co-founding Archive Team, which primarily
works to archive websites on the brink of closure, most famously
GeoCities in 2009.
As a teenager in the 1980s, Scott was a user of the bulletin board systems reachable from Westchester, New York. As a habit, himself speculating it due to his parent's divorce, Scott made large backups of the various files and «warez» available for download from the boards. Many of these files later made up the initial archives at textfiles.com.
As a result of people approaching him with large physical archives of electronic media, Scott has multiple shipping containers worth of archival items in his backyard. Scott intents to be the custodian of these items, holding them until a better home arrives.
In 2009 Scott co-founded the web archiving group Archive Team, initially as a response to the imminent closure of GeoCities by Yahoo. The archival of GeoCities enabled the work of Olia Lialina and Dragan Espenschied of One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age who comb through the archive and document their findings, GifCities, and endless nostalgia bait screenshots which circulate throughout the Internet. Archive Team uses a custom-build piece of archival software named Warrior which allows multiple users to delegate downloading tasks amongst each other, all vying for a spot on the leaderboard. Archive Team continues to operate toady, notably exclusively using IRC for communication.
Scott gives many talks aided by his enthusiastic presentation style. One of his most famous talks, notably introduced by net historian Olia Lialina, is «Where are the Files?» hosted at Stadtbibliothek Stuttgart in 2012. In the talk he lampoons cloud file hosting solutions due to their transient and unpredictable nature, giving examples of services that shut down in a hurry leaving users without their files. He advises all listeners to start referring to the cloud as «the clown,» claiming that such a trick will help remember the true nature of the beast. It should be noted that early Mozilla employee and prolific blogger «jwz» partakes in this trick today.
Today, Scott's responsibilities at the Internet Archive appear to consist of curating the software archive, community outreach, and being a liaison for those with large prospective archives. In his free time he hosts the Patreon supported podcast «Jason Scott Talks His Way Out Of It» in which he visits various personal and technical stories from his own recent past, and often streams his VHS digitalisation work on Twitch.
Some or all of the text on this page was written by Harry Stanton, CC0.
Dissolve one package of gelatin in a cupful of cold water. Add to that two cupfuls of sugar and one quart of boiling water. Divide the mixture into three parts, in one of which place marshmallows and white grapes. In the second one put pineapple and oranges and in the third nuts. Fill individual glasses with different mixtures and serve them with whipped cream. Decorate with preserved cherries, candied orange peel and nuts.
Jupiter (Q319 on Wikidata) is a world of extremes. It's the
largest planet in our solar system - if it
were a hollow shell, 1,000 Earths could fit
inside. It's also the oldest planet, forming from the dust and gases
left over from the Sun's formation 4.6 billion
years ago. But it has the shortest day in the solar system, taking about
9.9 hours to spin around once on its axis.
Jupiter's signature stripes and swirls are actually cold, windy clouds of ammonia and water, floating in an atmosphere of hydrogen and helium. The dark orange stripes are called belts, while the lighter bands are called zones, and they flow east and west in opposite directions. Jupiter's iconic Great Red Spot is a giant storm bigger than Earth that has raged for hundreds of years.
The king of planets was named for Jupiter, king of the gods in Roman mythology. Most of its moons are also named for mythological characters, figures associated with Jupiter or his Greek counterpart, Zeus.
Jupiter, being the biggest planet, gets its name from the king of the ancient Roman gods.
Jupiter's environment is probably not conducive to life as we know it. The temperatures, pressures, and materials that characterize this planet are most likely too extreme and volatile for organisms to adapt to.
While planet Jupiter is an unlikely place for living things to take hold, the same is not true of some of its many moons. Europa is one of the likeliest places to find life elsewhere in our solar system. There is evidence of a vast ocean just beneath its icy crust, where life could possibly be supported.
With a radius of 69,911 kilometers, Jupiter is 11 times wider than Earth. If Earth were the size of a grape, Jupiter would be about as big as a basketball.
From an average distance of 778 million kilometers, Jupiter is 5.2 astronomical units away from the Sun. One astronomical unit (abbreviated as AU), is the distance from the Sun to Earth. From this distance, it takes sunlight 43 minutes to travel from the Sun to Jupiter.
Jupiter has the shortest day in the solar system. One day on Jupiter takes 9.9 hours (the time it takes for Jupiter to rotate or spin around once), and Jupiter makes a complete orbit around the Sun (a year in Jovian time) in about 12 Earth years (4,333 Earth days).
Its equator is tilted with respect to its orbital path around the Sun by just 3 degrees. This means Jupiter spins nearly upright and does not have seasons as extreme as other planets do.
With four large moons and many smaller moons, Jupiter forms a kind of miniature solar system.
Jupiter has 95 moons that are officially recognized by the International Astronomical Union. The four largest moons - Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto - were first observed by the astronomer Galileo Galilei in 1610 using an early version of the telescope. These four moons are known today as the Galilean satellites, and they're some of the most fascinating destinations in our solar system.
Io is the most volcanically active body in the solar system. Ganymede is the largest moon in the solar system (even bigger than the planet Mercury). Callisto-s very few small craters indicate a small degree of current surface activity. A liquid-water ocean with the ingredients for life may lie beneath the frozen crust of Europa, the target of NASA's Europa Clipper mission slated to launch in 2024.
Discovered in 1979 by NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft, Jupiter's rings were a surprise. The rings are composed of small, dark particles, and they are difficult to see except when backlit by the Sun. Data from the Galileo spacecraft indicate that Jupiter's ring system may be formed by dust kicked up as interplanetary meteoroids smash into the giant planet's small innermost moons.
Jupiter took shape along with rest of the solar system about 4.6 billion years ago. Gravity pulled swirling gas and dust together to form this gas giant. Jupiter took most of the mass left over after the formation of the Sun, ending up with more than twice the combined material of the other bodies in the solar system. In fact, Jupiter has the same ingredients as a star, but it did not grow massive enough to ignite.
About 4 billion years ago, Jupiter settled into its current position in the outer solar system, where it is the fifth planet from the Sun.
The composition of Jupiter is similar to that of the Sun - mostly hydrogen and helium. Deep in the atmosphere, pressure and temperature increase, compressing the hydrogen gas into a liquid. This gives Jupiter the largest ocean in the solar system - an ocean made of hydrogen instead of water. Scientists think that, at depths perhaps halfway to the planet's center, the pressure becomes so great that electrons are squeezed off the hydrogen atoms, making the liquid electrically conducting like metal. Jupiter's fast rotation is thought to drive electrical currents in this region, with the spinning of the liquid metallic hydrogen acting like a dynamo, generating the planet's powerful magnetic field.
Deeper down, Jupiter's central core had long been a mystery. Scientists theorized Jupiter was a mostly homogeneous mix of hydrogen and helium gases, surrounding a small, solid core of heavier elements - ice, rock, and metal formed from debris and small objects swirling around that area of the embryonic solar system 4 billion years ago.
NASA-s Juno spacecraft, measuring Jupiter-s gravity and magnetic field, found data suggesting the core is much larger than expected, and not solid. Instead, it-s partially dissolved, with no clear separation from the metallic hydrogen around it, leading researchers to describe the core as dilute, or «fuzzy.»
As a gas giant, Jupiter doesn-t have a true surface. The planet is mostly swirling gases and liquids. While a spacecraft would have nowhere to land on Jupiter, it wouldn-t be able to fly through unscathed either. The extreme pressures and temperatures deep inside the planet crush, melt, and vaporize spacecraft trying to fly into the planet.
Jupiter's appearance is a tapestry of colorful stripes and spots - the cloud bands that encircle the planet, and the cyclonic storms dotting it from pole to pole. The gas planet likely has three distinct cloud layers in its «skies» that, taken together, span about 71 kilometers. The top cloud is probably made of ammonia ice, while the middle layer is likely made of ammonium hydrosulfide crystals. The innermost layer may be made of water ice and vapor.
The vivid colors you see in thick bands across Jupiter may be plumes of sulfur and phosphorus-containing gases rising from the planet's warmer interior. Jupiter's fast rotation - spinning once every 10 hours - creates strong jet streams, separating its clouds into dark belts and bright zones across long stretches.
With no solid surface to slow them down, Jupiter's spots can persist for many years. Stormy Jupiter is swept by over a dozen prevailing winds, some reaching up to 539 kilometers per hour at the equator. The Great Red Spot, a swirling oval of clouds twice as wide as Earth, has been observed on the giant planet for more than 300 years. More recently, three smaller ovals merged to form the Little Red Spot, about half the size of its larger cousin.
Findings from NASA-s Juno probe released in October 2021 provide a fuller picture of what-s going on below those clouds. Data from Juno shows that Jupiter-s cyclones are warmer on top, with lower atmospheric densities, while they are colder at the bottom, with higher densities. Anticyclones, which rotate in the opposite direction, are colder at the top but warmer at the bottom.
The findings also indicate these storms are far taller than expected, with some extending 100 kilometers below the cloud tops and others, including the Great Red Spot, extending over 350 kilometers. This surprising discovery demonstrates that the vortices cover regions beyond those where water condenses and clouds form, below the depth where sunlight warms the atmosphere.
The height and size of the Great Red Spot mean the concentration of atmospheric mass within the storm potentially could be detectable by instruments studying Jupiter-s gravity field. Two close Juno flybys over Jupiter-s most famous spot provided the opportunity to search for the storm-s gravity signature and complement the other results on its depth.
With their gravity data, the Juno team was able to constrain the extent of the Great Red Spot to a depth of about 500 kilometers below the cloud tops.
Belts and Zones In addition to cyclones and anticyclones, Jupiter is known for its distinctive belts and zones - white and reddish bands of clouds that wrap around the planet. Strong east-west winds moving in opposite directions separate the bands. Juno previously discovered that these winds, or jet streams, reach depths of about 2,000 miles (roughly 3,200 kilometers). Researchers are still trying to solve the mystery of how the jet streams form. Data collected by Juno during multiple passes reveal one possible clue: that the atmosphere-s ammonia gas travels up and down in remarkable alignment with the observed jet streams.
Juno-s data also shows that the belts and zones undergo a transition around 40 miles (65 kilometers) beneath Jupiter-s water clouds. At shallow depths, Jupiter-s belts are brighter in microwave light than the neighboring zones. But at deeper levels, below the water clouds, the opposite is true - which reveals a similarity to our oceans.
Polar Cyclones Juno previously discovered polygonal arrangements of giant cyclonic storms at both of Jupiter-s poles - eight arranged in an octagonal pattern in the north and five arranged in a pentagonal pattern in the south. Over time, mission scientists determined these atmospheric phenomena are extremely resilient, remaining in the same location.
Juno data also indicates that, like hurricanes on Earth, these cyclones want to move poleward, but cyclones located at the center of each pole push them back. This balance explains where the cyclones reside and the different numbers at each pole.
The Jovian magnetosphere is the region of space influenced by Jupiter's powerful magnetic field. It balloons 1 to 3 million kilometers toward the Sun (seven to 21 times the diameter of Jupiter itself) and tapers into a tadpole-shaped tail extending more than 1 billion kilometers behind Jupiter, as far as Saturn's orbit. Jupiter's enormous magnetic field is 16 to 54 times as powerful as that of the Earth. It rotates with the planet and sweeps up particles that have an electric charge. Near the planet, the magnetic field traps swarms of charged particles and accelerates them to very high energies, creating intense radiation that bombards the innermost moons and can damage spacecraft.
Jupiter's magnetic field also causes some of the solar system's most spectacular aurorae at the planet's poles.
A very recognizable and simple sweet dish from the mountainous regions of Austria, southern Germany and northern Italy.
Classic Filipino dish, great paired with freshly cooked rice and a bottle of Coca Cola.
Credits to creator of recipe, Ethan Chlebowski, (original recipe). I decided to post it on here to be more available.
Enjoy!
Recipe can be expanded or contracted to your needs. I personally divide the recipe in half to fit my 2 quart saucepan (recipe calls for a 3 quart). I recommend using Orville Redenbacher's popcorn kernels, as they are specifically formulated to pop consistently. Follow these directions precisely, and I will guarantee you will have no burnt or unpopped kernels.
The simple yet comprehensive guide to making tasty kombucha. This is intended to give you an initial overview of the process. I strongly encourage you to experiment with brewing times, teas, flavors, etc. The scoby is extremely tolerant, so the worst that can happen is that your resulting kombucha won't be that great.
;)Primary brew:
Second brew:
This easy Swedish dish makes for a great weeknight dinner.
Served best with coffee, sausage, bacon, or fresh fruit for breakfast.
I suggest using high quality whole milk, butter, and eggs for this recipe.
Cut the Kumquats into halves, pick out seeds, cover with cold water and bring to a boil. In the meantime have your syrup boiling–1 pint sugar to 3 pints water.
Drain fruit and put in syrup and simmer slowly for 1 hour. Take out fruit and continue to simmer syrup until it begins to get thick.
Put the fruit into syrup–place preserving kettle in pot of boilingwater and let them, or let the water continue boiling until syrup is thick as you like it. Put 1/4 teaspoon fine salt in first water, as it adds a fine flavor. Grate stem off skin deep.
Kvass is a Slavic fermented beverage which is both simple to make and rich in flavour.
Kwangmyong (Q714008 on
Wikidata) (meaning bright light)
constitutes a mysterious Intranet that North Koreans basically have
instead of the Internet. For its high political isolation North Korea
doesn't allow its citizens open access to the Internet, they rather
create their own internal network the government can fully control and
censor to their liking – this is unsurprising, allegedly it is
e.g. illegal to own a fax and North Korea also have their own operating
system called Red Star OS for similar reasons – to not get infiltrated
by foreign technology. Not so much is known about Kwangmyong for a
number of reasons: it is only accessible from within North Korea,
foreigners are typically not allowed to access it, and, of course, it
isn't in English but in Korean, so a typical tourist won't understand a
word even if he gets a glimpse of it. Unsurprisingly the content on the
network is treated with the highest forms of censorship, filtering,
control and a great deal of it is engineered to serve the state
propaganda. Here and there a foreigner gets a rare opportunity to peek
into the network or even secretly photograph things that enable us to
make out a bit of information about Kwangmyong.
North Koreans themselves almost never have their own computers, they typically browse the network in libraries.
There seem to be a few thousand accessible sites. Raw IP addresses
(in the private 10.0.0.0/8 range) are sometimes used to
access sites (posters in libraries list IPs of some of them) but DNS is
also up – here sites use .kp top level domain. Various sites,
e.g. of universities, are also accessible on the Internet (e.g. http://www.ryongnamsan.edu.kp/,
others like http://www.ipo.aca.kp
(patent/invention site) or http://www.ssl.edu.kp (sports site) are
not. There seems to be a remote webcam education system in place – it
appeared on North Korean news. There exists something akin to a search
engine (Naenara), E-Mail, Usenet, even something like Facebook.
Apparently there are some video games as well.
Cream butter, add sugar and eggs. To this add vanilla and baking powder, and when these are thoroughly mixed, stir in the oats. This should make a stiff batter, and more oats may be added if batter is not stiff enough.
Mold into little cakes with a teaspoon and bake in buttered pans two inches apart, for ten minutes.
Bake on the underside of a pan in a slow oven. This makes 20 cakes.
«Do not misunderstand me. Woman suffrage is right. It is just. It is expedient. In all moral issues the woman voters make a loyal legion that cannot be betrayed to the forces of evil; and however they are betrayed-as we all are-in campaigns against the Beast, the good that they do in an election is a great gain to a community and a powerful aid to reform. I believe that when the women see the Beast, they will be the first to attack it. I believe that in this our first successful campaign against it, the women saved us.»
- Hon. Ben Lindsay (1869 - 1943;Q4886065on Wikidata).
This recipe makes an Southern Indian (Tamil) style Lamb biriyani that has been adapted to a more western audience (aka a bit less spicy) and can be made with either Lamb or Mutton. Best served with a sauce such as an onion raith.
A plated rendering of the dish, made with Mutton. Makes a really hearty ,meaty and delicious dish. The dishes uses a rice to meat ratio of 2:3. PS: the biriyani tastes better the longer it's allowed to soak in it's flavour after cooking.
Make a pie crust and line 4 pie pans. Put soda in the molasses and heat thoroughly, then add the boiling water. Divide in the four pans. Mix flour, sugar and butter together for the crumbs and put on top of the syrup.
Bake in moderate oven.
A nice recipe for amazing fully home-made lasagna.
Easily made chocolate dessert with fluid chocolate content. The only requirement is a baking tin with cupcake pits.
Lebanese-Style Lentil Soup with Swiss Chard and Lemon
Mix all together with Dove egg beater and cook until it boils. Watch that it does not burn.
Cream together the yolks of five (5) eggs and four (4) tablespoons of sugar. Add the grated rind of one (1) lemon and the juice of one and one-half (1 1/2) lemons. Dissolve 1 teaspoon of gelatine in a very little water, while hot stir into the pudding. Let stand till it thickens, then add the beaten whites of the eggs. Serve in individual sherbet cups.
This recipe was written by Mrs. Raymond Robins of Chicago, Illinois.
Cream two tablespoons of butter until soft, add one tablespoon of lemon juice and a little nutmeg, then beat in enough sifted confectioner's sugar to make a light, fluffy mass. Let it harden a little before serving.
A dressing that goes well on lettuce or any other mixed greens.
Before using lemons for any purpose, always roll them awhile with your hand on a table. This will cause them to yield a larger quantity of juice.
Q5362164
on Wikidata), an American writer of popular
cookbooks during the nineteenth century.Dissolve sugar in milk, place in freezer. Add lemon juice after freezer has been packed. Add juice rapidly and with violent stirring, then immediately place in dasher and turn the crank until frozen.
Traditional-spanish dish. Typical Spanish!
Let cool for a few minutes and then serve in bowls.
Simple green lentil recipe. Suitable for Lent.
Have a blessed Lent.
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«Limoncini» literally means «little lemons» but is a sweet, whereas «arancini» means «little oranges» but is a main dish (typical of southern Italy). Please, don't confuse these dishes: they are very different and you may find yourself on the wrong side of a feud.
Lisieux, a town of north-western France, capital of an arrondissement in the department of Calvados, 30 m. E. of Caen by rail. Pop. (1906) 15,194. Lisieux is prettily situated in the valley of the Touques at its confluence with the Orbiquet. Towers of the 16th century, relics of the old fortifications, remain, and some of the streets, bordered throughout by houses of the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries, retain their medieval aspect. The church of St Peter, formerly a cathedral, is reputed to be the first Gothic church built in Normandy. Begun in the latter half of the 12th century it was completed in the 13th and 16th centuries. There is a lantern-tower over the crossing and two towers surmount the west façade, one only of which has a spire, added towards the end of the 16th century. In the interior there is a Lady-Chapel, restored in the 15th century by Bishop Pierre Cauchon, one of the judges of Joan of Arc. The church of St Jacques (late 15th century) contains beautiful glass of the Renaissance, some remarkable stalls and old frescoes, and a curious picture on wood, restored in 1681. The church of St Désir (18th century) once belonged to a Benedictine abbey. The old episcopal palace near the cathedral is now used as a court-house, museum, library and prison, and contains a beautiful hall called the salle dorée. Lisieux is the seat of a sub-prefect, and has tribunals of first instance and of commerce, a chamber of arts and manufactures, a board of trade arbitrators and a communal college. Its manufactures of woollens are important, and bleaching, wool and flax-spinning, tanning, brewing, timber-sawing, metal-founding, and the manufacture of machinery, hosiery and boots and shoes are carried on; there is trade in grain, cattle and cheese.
In the time of Caesar, Lisieux, under the name of Noviomagus, was the capital of the Lexovii. Though destroyed by the barbarians, by the 6th century it had become one of the most important towns of Neustria. Its bishopric, suppressed in 1802, dates from that period. In 877 it was pillaged by the Normans; and in 911 was included in the duchy of Normandy by the treaty of St Clair-sur-Epte. Civil authority was exercised by the bishop as count of the town. In 1136 Geoffrey Plantagenet laid siege to Lisieux, which had taken the side of Stephen of Blois. The town was not reduced till 1141, by which time both it and the neighbourhood had been brought to the direst extremities of famine. In 1152 the marriage of Henry II. of England to Eleanor of Guienne, which added so largely to his dominions, was celebrated in the cathedral. Thomas à Becket took refuge here, and some vestments used by him are shown in the hospital chapel. Taken by Philip Augustus and reunited to France in 1203, the town was a frequent subject of dispute between the contending parties during the Hundred Years' War, the religious wars, and those of the League.
Lithuanian Cold Borscht (Lithuanian - «Šaltibarščiai», Polish - «Chłodnik litewski», Latvian - «Aukstā zupa») is a refreshing summer dish, variations of which are popular in Lithuania and neighboring regions. This recipe is most popular in the Kaliningrad region of Russia; in other regions (Lithuania, Poland, Latvia, Ukraine, Belarus) the ingredients may differ.
Take a fine calf liver. Skin well and cut in thick slices. Season with salt and pepper. Fry in deep fat and drain.
Chop fine two tablespoons parsley. Melt two tablespoons butter, toss in parsley and pour at once over liver and serve.
Soak liver in cold water for one hour, then skin and scrape it and run it through meat chopper twice; the second time adding the suet. Brown finely cut onion in two tablespoons of lard; add salt, pepper and sweet marjorie to taste.
Soak 1/4 loaf bread in cold water, squeeze out the water and mix the bread with the liver, then add three well beaten eggs and enough flour to stiffen. Drop one dumpling with a spoon into one gallon of water (slightly salted), should it cook away, then add more flour before cooking the remainder of the mixture.
Boil thirty minutes, and longer if necessary. When properly cooked the middle of the dumpling will be white.
Before serving, brown bread crumbs in butter and sprinkle over the dumplings.
Good start for trying to eat more organs. It even tastes very nice. The last step before eating it raw someday.
With beef liver, remove its membrane, that is on top, with your fingers. Cut it in small pieces even cubes or slices and remove the vessels that are inside it. They are not very tasty and are impossible to chew.
A tex-mex style mexican rice with beans and meat. Adding the beans
and meat take it from a side dish to good good burrito filling.
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5 serving
Creamy french lobster soup perfect for the holidays, you can optionally replace the lobster with any other shellfish.
Born on 1860-04-05 in Clerkenwell, London, Louis William Wain (Q714709 on
Wikidata) was the eldest of six children (and
the only boy) to textile trader William Matthew Wain and Julie Felicie
Boiteux. He was also the only one to marry, wedding Emily Richardson in
1884.
Despite both of the Wain and Richardson family disapproving of their relationship (Emily was from a lower class and ten years older than Louis) and not attending their wedding, the couple had a strong but short marriage that was cut short after Emily fell ill from breast cancer. During this time, one of her comforts was Peter, a black-and-white kitten of theirs, another enjoyment of her's was Louis' drawings of this cat, encoraging him to publish his drawings.
Emily herself would die of her cancer in 1887, despite of this, it did not hinder his passion for drawing.
Early in his career, Wain drew landscapes and houses, but he soon turned to his true passion: the animal kingdom. While he illustrated birds, dogs, livestock, and more, nothing captured the public imagination like his cats. When one thinks of Louis Wain's work, the image of a friendly feline comes to mind - and for good reason.
His drawings are vibrant, humorous, and brimming with personality, often depicting anthropomorphic cats in everyday human situations: driving cars, standing in courtrooms, celebrating Christmas, playing sports, and so much more, all while somehow making it look so normal: ‘'Of course a cat can play tennis and wear a dress!''
The bold use of colour and expressive (sometimes almost abstract) forms lend his work a proto-psychedelic quality that continues to mesmerise viewers today.
Since his passing in 1939, Wain's influence endures in pop culture:
his art featured on the cover of Oingo Boingo's self-titled debut EP,
inspired the 2021 biopic The Electrical Life of Louis
Wain (Q67171095)
starring Benedict Cumberbatch, and keeps gaining appreciation through
bots like @LouisWainBot on
Twitter.
Prehaps the most comprhensive archive of his work is located at Catland - Louis Wain Resource and Archive where all known artworks of his can be found.
The Less Retarded Software Wiki (as located on Git and a save on the Internet Archive) is the name of an online encyclopedia that covers a wide range of topics that has over 600 pages, some short and snappy, others impressive in their size and almost overwhelming. What's impressive is that this wiki was written by one person, that being Drummyfish, the online handle of Miloslav Číž, a Czech self-proclaimed anarchocapitalist who has a bachelor's degree for Information Technology as well as a master's degree in computer graphics and multimedia. Drummy has been actively updating the LRS Wiki since its birth in 2021.
The wiki, also called the LRS wiki, Less Retarded Wiki, LRW is unique in that all of the contents are fully Creative Commons: CC0 1.0 Universal - all work was made by Drummy and he opted to not even allow himself to use other people's text, even if it would fall under fair use/uses the same license.
This is different from, say, Wikipedia, which, while it is under a Creative Commons license, allows for fair use (such as images, videos, and detailed plot summaries) to be used on its site. Drummyfish seems very against this practice, although his not using fair use can kind of make reading some pages seem half-finished.
Desptie this, for the LRS Wiki, it more seems like Drumymfish himself is trying to tell you a story or something that he knows, vs say on Wikipedia where whoever wrote this that or the other part of an article you're on doesn't matter. This is helped by Drummyfish's fondness to interject in his own pages by adding his own comments, e.g. on his Internet page where he adds his own comment:
{ For readers in the future: I witnessed this «revolution» first hand, I remember the world before Internet was common and can confirm it brought along the worst horrors I could imagine. ~drummyfish }
It's a unique touch, something you would never see on most other wikis. If this decision to suddenly give the writers an option is a good bad thing, that's up to you, although it can be a nice addition to the page.
Another unique part of the wiki is the lack of images; there are no embedded photos here, but a lot of the time Drummyfish opts to use ASCII art
A lot of what is written in the LRS Wiki seems to contradict the «Love everyone, help selflessly» motto that is cited on the landing page for the wiki. There are pages for people such as Devine Lu Linvega, whom Drummy deadnames, misgenders, and calls a retard and a fascist; this page more seems to come from a place of genuine hatred than the «love everyone» motto - if Drummy loves everyone, why would he deliberately go out of his way to dismiss and make fun of a person? Surely that would make the subject upset if they read the page?
It more seems like this motto is a slipping facade increasingly by the minute; it's clear that Drummy is either lying or is not aware of him being a hypocrite.
The politics of Drummyfish seem to be confused – he flat-out claims he's left-wing, and an anarchist, in fact, but then he doesn't act like a leftie at all, more like someone whose objective is to be edgy for the sake of edge. He has a strange obsession with the word nigger, something he sees as a test of free speech and how he has updating stats on how many times that word appears on the wiki.
It's all very strange left-wing behavior, especially when he has yet another tired rant about Newspeak or how women are dumb. It feels like we keep on going around in circles.
Despite this, Drummy himself seems to have collected a few followers of sorts, people who pick up on his philosophy of thinking. This is mostly seen with other wikis that use the same Markdown to HTML script as the LRS Wiki. These wikis have the same language and feelings as what Drummyfish writes, but seemingly don't have the same oomph as what inspired them and just seem to be an outlet for a pissed-off youth to vent their feelings.
LSD: Dream Emulator (Q845417 on
Wikidata) is the name of the cult classic 1998
PS1 art game by OutSide Directors Company.
Calling LSD: Dream Emulator a game is a of a misnomer as it's not much of a game; there's really no way to win, you can't die, there's nothing to battle, and to top it all off, there isn't exactly a protagonist. Instead, LSD (that actually stands for a number of things like Link Speed Dream, Lovely Sweet Dream, Lustful Secret Desire and not LSD the drug) is based off the dream journal of Hiroko Nishikawa (西川公子; a game designer at Asmik Ace Entertainment) and let's you explore surreal dream worlds generated from her entries.
It's a bit of a hard concept to fully explain, but if you wanted to boil it all down into two words «interactive art» would probably be the best match for it.
Despite the unique premise, LSD: Dream Emulator didn't sell well, being a commercial failure, no thanks to it only being available in its native Japan and it being overshadowed by other games, like Spyro the Dragon, like Metal Gear Solid, Resident Evil 2 that were guaranteed to sell, versus a strange, and certainly confusing, game like LSD. Despite this, a cult following of devoted fans exist, trying to work out the mechanics, possible story, and deep lore behind this interactive adventure.
Since 2011, a fan made remake of the game, LSD: Revamp, has been in active development, and is probably the easiest way of actually picking up and playing the game without the hassle of finding a ROM and emulating it.
The Mac, short for Macintosh (Q75687 on
Wikidata), is a brand of computer that has been continuously released by
Apple. Although not as popular as Microsoft's Windows line of operating
systems, Mac is certainly no underdog.
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Sometimes you need your Mac to stay awake to complete a long task like compiling or transferring data.
Screen off, still running
Keyboard shortcut to lock your Mac, turn off the screen, and continue running:
⌘ + control + q
Screen on, still running
This command won't let your Mac sleep until you
control + c the terminal. Open a terminal and type:
caffeinate -disu
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Launch agents/daemons are scripts that tell the system to run executables at user login. These are mostly background daemons such as software updaters and are mostly harmless. They are placed in the following locations:
/Library/LaunchAgents/Library/LaunchDaemons~/Library/LaunchAgentsDespite all the protections in modern macOS, apps can still freely place launch agents as they desire without any prompt from the user. My biggest frustration comes from Adobe, which insists on launching a background Creative Cloud updater that spawns half a dozen other processes.
Clean-up Script
I have written a script called agentlookout that when
ran cleans up your launch agents/daemons and removes ones not
whitelisted. It's a very simple script that I recommend running once in
a while and especially after launching Chrome and any Adobe products. I
wouldn't recommend automating this process so that you can catch any
launch agents; you don't mind sticking around as you accumulate more
apps on your Mac.
When ran it looks like this:
Will delete unrecognized launch agents: - /Users/harry/Library/LaunchAgents/com.adobe.GC.Invoker-1.0.plist - /Users/harry/Library/LaunchAgents/com.google.keystone.agent.plist - /Users/harry/Library/LaunchAgents/com.google.keystone.xpcservice.plist Delete? [y/n]
Code
/usr/local/bin/agentlook,
and remember to give execute permission.#!/bin/bash # Launch agents that won't be deleted ALLOWED_LAUNCH_AGENTS=("com.dropbox.DropboxMacUpdate.agent.plist" "com.tapbots.Pastebot.PasteService.plist") delete=() shopt -s nullglob launch_agent_check() { for f in $1; do filename=$(basename "$f") if [[ ! " ${ALLOWED_LAUNCH_AGENTS[@]} " =~ " ${filename} " ]]; then delete+=("$f") fi done } launch_agent_check "/Library/LaunchAgents/*.plist" launch_agent_check "/Library/LaunchDaemons/*.plist" launch_agent_check "$HOME/Library/LaunchAgents/*.plist" if [ "${#delete[@]}" -eq 0 ]; then echo "No launch agents found, exiting..." exit 0 fi echo "Will delete unrecognized launch agents:" for f in ${delete[@]}; do echo " - $f" done delete_agents() { sudo rm "${delete[@]}" } while true; do read -p "Delete? [y/n] " yn case $yn in [Yy]* ) delete_agents; break;; [Nn]* ) exit;; * ) echo "Please answer yes/no";; esac done
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.DS_Store is a file on Mac that Finder places within
directories in order to store directory-specific preferences. It serves
a purpose and is mostly harmless, but sometimes you need to delete all
of them within a directory. This is a quick one liner to do that:
find . -name «.DS_Store» -type f -delete
For a more permanent and reliable solution, try excluding
.DS_Store with the tool you are using to archive or
transfer files.
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Launchpad gets messy; this command resets the layout. You may need to open Launchpad two times before all icons display again. Enter in a terminal:
defaults write com.apple.dock ResetLaunchPad -bool true && killall Dock
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This has been tested on OS X Snow Leopard.
Confirm that EFI is enabled in the VM settings; if you select the default OS X template within VirtualBox, then this will already be configured.
Enter the following commands in your terminal:
VBoxManage modifyvm «Mac» –cpuidset 00000001 000106e5 00100800 0098e3fd bfebfbff VBoxManage modifyvm «Mac» –cpu-profile «Intel Core i7-6700K» VBoxManage setextradata «Mac» «VBoxInternal/Devices/efi/0/Config/DmiSystemProduct» «iMac11,3» VBoxManage setextradata «Mac» «VBoxInternal/Devices/efi/0/Config/DmiSystemVersion» «1.0» VBoxManage setextradata «Mac» «VBoxInternal/Devices/efi/0/Config/DmiBoardProduct» «Iloveapple» VBoxManage setextradata «Mac» «VBoxInternal/Devices/smc/0/Config/DeviceKey» «ourhardworkbythesewordsguardedpleasedontsteal(c)AppleComputerInc» VBoxManage setextradata «Mac» «VBoxInternal/Devices/smc/0/Config/GetKeyFromRealSMC» 1
Boot the VM and you should be loaded into the EFI shell.
Type exit in the shell.
Choose Boot Maintenance Manager, then
Boot From File.
Select the entry listing HFS+, then navigate through
the file hierarchy like so:
System/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi.
Once you've found boot.efi, press return to boot the
installer.
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Launch daemons are script files that are managed by the system that
have versatile options for running them; the system tracks «loaded»
daemons as to avoid running duplicates. They are located at
/Library/LaunchDaemons/.
Starting (run as root)
launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.example.daemon.plist
Stopping (run as root)
launchctl unload /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.example.daemon.plist
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General information such as what launch daemons are and how to manage them can be found at Mac Launch Daemons.
/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.webserver.daemon.plist
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC -//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN
http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd >
Label - name of the daemonProgramArguments - command and arguments to callEnvironmentVariables - optional list of environment
variables used when running ProgramArguments,
PATH key and value may be needed to run some scriptsRunAtLoad - run when user logs in, most likely
wantedWorkingDirectory - directory to execute fromUserName - username to run the command file as, see
below for more optionsStandardOutPath - optional log file helpful for
debuggingStandardErrorPath - optional error log fileStandardOutPath and StandardErrorPath are
both optional. NOTE: It is necessary to create the
subdirectory under /var/log,
e.g. mkdir -p /var/log/webserver.
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Daemon users are usually used alongside launch daemons. Find out what they are and how to create them.
In this example a daemon user named _webserver is
created. Make sure you replace this with your own new daemon
username.
Decide on a name for your user and prefix it with an underscore;
this will also be the name for a new group the user will be a member of.
For example, _webserver.
$ sudo dscl Entering interactive mode... (type «help» for commands)
Move to the base folder:
> cd /Local/Default/
List all groups and find an unused GID, preferably less than 500:
/Local/Default > ls Groups gid
Create a group and assign the GID found in the previous step. In this example, the GID found is 300, but it may differ for you:
/Local/Default > create Groups/_webserver /Local/Default > create Groups/_webserver PrimaryGroupID 300
List all users and find an unused UID, preferably less than 500; this can be different from your GID:
/Local/Default > ls Users uid
Create a user and assign the UID found in the previous step. In this example, the UID found is 300, but it may differ for you:
/Local/Default > create Users/_webserver UserShell /bin/bash /Local/Default > create Users/_webserver UniqueID 300
Set the user's group ID to the GID previously found and assigned to the group; alongside this, also set the user's home directory:
/Local/Default > create Users/_webserver PrimaryGroupID 300 /Local/Default > create Users/_webserver NFSHomeDirectory /Users/_webserver
Add the user to the previously created group:
/Local/Default > append Groups/_webserver GroupMembership _webserver
Exit out of interactive user mode:
/Local/Default > exit
Goodbyesudo dscl . delete /Users/\_webserver AuthenticationAuthority
sudo dscl . create /Users/\_webserver Password "\*"sudo mkdir /Users/\_webserver
sudo chown \_webserver:\_webserver /Users/\_webserverInstructions distilled from a similar document in the Minecraft Wiki
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With a standard Homebrew install, it is located at:
/usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
It has permissions of -rw-r--r-- USER:admin.
Put butter in a pan and allow it to melt, add onions and cook until light brown, not dark. Now add meat and cook slowly, now add sugar, and seasoning and tomatoes, and as it cooks down add 1 cup of water. Allow it to cook three hours or longer, adding more water as it needs it. It will turn dark, almost a mahogany, as it nears the finishing point. When almost done put macaroni on in plenty of boiling salt water and cook almost twenty minutes. Do not allow it to cook entirely. When done drain off water. Now take baking dish, and put a layer of macaroni on bottom, now a layer of parmesan cheese, now a layer of the tomato and meat sauce, now a layer of cheese and repeat with macaroni, cheese, sauce, etc., until the top is reached. Put on a generous layer of sauce and cheese and allow it to bake about a half hour in a medium oven, being careful that it is not too hot.
Regarding how much water to add must be determined by cook. Some times it boils more rapidly. The sauce must not be too thin.
To serve with Macaroni Italienne the following is very fine.
Have the butcher cut a 2 pound round steak as thin as possible and prepare the following way:
Grate the bread, cut anchovies and parsley fine. Mix all with seasoning and cheese and spread on steak. Now place the eggs which have been boiled hard, peel, and allow to remain whole on top of bread crumbs, etc. Place at equal distance from each other, and roll up and bind with skewers or cord. Put this into the pot with the tomato and meat sauce and allow it to cook until the sauce is done, at which time the meat roll will also be ready to serve. Place the roll on a dish and cut in slices.
This, with a light salad, is sufficient for a dinner.
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|___|_[H]___|=|=|=|=|=|=|=|=|An old cajun recipe for stewed corn & tomatoes. Enjoyable at any time of year, but I love to make it on hot summer afternoons as a side to a sausage dish. Pairs well with brown ales.
A tasty simple marinade that fits well with pork.
And just like that you got yourself some tasty pork steaks.
Mars - the fourth planet from the Sun - is a dusty, cold, desert world with a very thin atmosphere. This dynamic planet has seasons, polar ice caps, extinct volcanoes, canyons, and weather.
Mars (Q111 on Wikidata) is one of the most explored bodies in
our solar system, and it's the only planet
where we've sent rovers to roam the alien landscape. NASA missions have
found lots of evidence that Mars was much wetter and warmer, with a
thicker atmosphere, billions of years ago.
Mars was named by the ancient Romans for their god of war because its reddish color was reminiscent of blood. Other civilizations also named the planet for this attribute - for example, the Egyptians called it «Her Desher,» meaning «the red one.» Even today, it is frequently called the «Red Planet» because iron minerals in the Martian dirt oxidize, or rust, causing the surface to look red.
Scientists don't expect to find living things currently thriving on Mars. Instead, they're looking for signs of life that existed long ago, when Mars was warmer and covered with water.
With a radius of 3,390 kilometers, Mars is about half the size of Earth. If Earth were the size of a nickel, Mars would be about as big as a raspberry.
From an average distance of 228 million kilometers, Mars is 1.5 astronomical units away from the Sun. One astronomical unit (abbreviated as AU), is the distance from the the Sun to Earth. From this distance, it takes sunlight 13 minutes to travel from the Sun to Mars.
As Mars orbits the Sun, it completes one rotation every 24.6 hours, which is very similar to one day on Earth (23.9 hours). Martian days are called sols - short for «solar day.» A year on Mars lasts 669.6 sols, which is the same as 687 Earth days.
Mars' axis of rotation is tilted 25 degrees with respect to the plane of its orbit around the Sun. This is another similarity with Earth, which has an axial tilt of 23.4 degrees. Like Earth, Mars has distinct seasons, but they last longer than seasons here on Earth since Mars takes longer to orbit the Sun (because it's farther away). And while here on Earth the seasons are evenly spread over the year, lasting 3 months (or one quarter of a year), on Mars the seasons vary in length because of Mars' elliptical, egg-shaped orbit around the Sun.
Spring in the northern hemisphere (autumn in the southern) is the longest season at 194 sols. Autumn in the northern hemisphere (spring in the southern) is the shortest at 142 days. Northern winter/southern summer is 154 sols, and northern summer/southern winter is 178 sols.
Mars has two small moons, Phobos and Deimos, that may be captured asteroids. They're potato-shaped because they have too little mass for gravity to make them spherical.
The moons get their names from the horses that pulled the chariot of the Greek god of war, Ares (whose Roman counterpart is Mars).
Phobos, the innermost and larger moon, is heavily cratered, with deep grooves on its surface. It is slowly moving towards Mars and will crash into the planet or break apart in about 50 million years.
Deimos is about half as big as Phobos and orbits two and a half times farther away from Mars. Oddly-shaped Deimos is covered in loose dirt that often fills the craters on its surface, making it appear smoother than pockmarked Phobos.
Mars has no rings. However, in 50 million years when Phobos crashes into Mars or breaks apart, it could create a dusty ring around the Red Planet.
When the solar system settled into its current layout about 4.5 billion years ago, Mars formed when gravity pulled swirling gas and dust in to become the fourth planet from the Sun. Mars is about half the size of Earth, and like its fellow terrestrial planets, it has a central core, a rocky mantle, and a solid crust.
Mars has a dense core at its center between 1,500 to 2,100 kilometers in radius. It's made of iron, nickel, and sulfur. Surrounding the core is a rocky mantle between 1,240 to 1,880 kilometers thick, and above that, a crust made of iron, magnesium, aluminum, calcium, and potassium. This crust is between 10 to 50 kilometers deep.
The Red Planet is actually many colors. At the surface, we see colors such as brown, gold, and tan. The reason Mars looks reddish is due to oxidization - or rusting - of iron in the rocks, regolith (Martian «soil»), and dust of Mars. This dust gets kicked up into the atmosphere and from a distance makes the planet appear mostly red.
Interestingly, while Mars is about half the diameter of Earth, its surface has nearly the same area as Earth's dry land. Its volcanoes, impact craters, crustal movement, and atmospheric conditions such as dust storms have altered the landscape of Mars over many years, creating some of the solar system's most interesting topographical features.
A vast canyon system called Valles Marineris is long enough to stretch from California to New York. This Martian canyon, the largest in the solar system, extends about 3,870 kilometers in length, spans about 600 kilometers across at its widest, and descends about 9.3 kilometers at its deepest, from the rim to the canyon floor. That's more than 10 times longer and wider than Earth's Grand Canyon.
Mars is home to the largest volcano in the solar system, Olympus Mons. It dwarfs Earth's highest peak, Mount Everest, which rises 8,848 meters, above the Earth's surface. Olympus Mons stands more than 132,000 feet, or 40 kilometers tall from base to summit, with the base covering an area as large as the state of Arizona.
Mars appears to have had a watery past, with ancient river valley networks, deltas, and lakebeds, as well as rocks and minerals on the surface that could only have formed in liquid water. Some features suggest that Mars experienced huge floods about 3.5 billion years ago.
There is water on Mars today, but the Martian atmosphere is too thin for liquid water to exist for long on the surface. Today, water on Mars is found in the form of water-ice just under the surface in the polar regions as well as in briny (salty) water, which seasonally flows down some hillsides and crater walls.
Mars has a thin atmosphere made up mostly of carbon dioxide, nitrogen, and argon gases. To our eyes, the sky would be hazy and red because of suspended dust instead of the familiar blue tint we see on Earth. Mars' sparse atmosphere doesn't offer much protection from impacts by such objects as meteorites, asteroids, and comets.
The temperature on Mars can be as high as 20 degrees Celsius or as low as about -153 degrees Celsius. And because the atmosphere is so thin, heat from the Sun easily escapes this planet. If you were to stand on the surface of Mars on the equator at noon, it would feel like spring at your feet (24 degrees Celsius) and winter at your head (0 degrees Celsius).
Occasionally, winds on Mars are strong enough to create dust storms that cover much of the planet. After such storms, it can be months before all of the dust settles.
Mars has no global magnetic field today, but areas of the Martian crust in the southern hemisphere are highly magnetized, indicating traces of a magnetic field from 4 billion years ago.
Arrange marshmallows on thin, unsweetened round crackers. Make a deep impression in center of each marshmallow, and in each cavity drop 1/4 teaspoon butter. Bake until marshmallows spread and nearly cover crackers. After removing from oven insert half a candied cherry in each cavity.
These are excellent with afternoon tea.
Matcha is a type of tea leaf powder that has a beautiful vivid green color. However, it's different from the «green tea» that you drink with Japanese meals. That's green tea too, but matcha green tea leaves are grown and harvested differently. The leaves are grown under shade.
(for 13 cookies, 8 ~ 9cm in diameter)
2 Tablespoons Dry Mustard
2 " " Salt
2 " " Flour
2 " " SugarSift together through fine strainer three times. Put into a double cooker two cups of milk. Beat four eggs thoroughly. Add to the milk. Melt two tablespoons of butter and add to the milk and eggs. Then add all the above dry sifted ingredients.
Put on fire, stirring constantly. When it begins to thicken add drop by drop one-half teacup vinegar.
Cook until thick, which will be about twenty minutes.
Remove from fire and put in cool place.
This recipe was written by Oliver H. P. Belmont, President Political Equality Ass'n. New York.
Aioli is pretty much just mayonnaise with garlic, although traditional aioli only includes olive oil and garlic, and no eggs or acid. This recipe uses raw eggs, so if that is sketchy in your region use pasteurized eggs 🥚.
Mazurek is a traditional Polish flat cake made in many homes for Easter. Many different toppings are possible.
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The MDKwiki was birthed thanks to the LRS Wiki, and the (very edited) code that builds this site comes from work by Drummyfish, author of the LRS Wiki. Thanks to the first wiki being fully free as in freedom software, a number of other wikis have popped up since.
Here is a list of wikis that were directly inspired by the LRS Wiki.
The Less Retarded Software Wiki, also called LRS Wiki and Less Retarded Wiki or LRW, is the work of its sole contributor, Miloslav «Drummyfish» Číž. The wiki itself is impressive for how many article pages there are, covering subjects like programming languages, gaming (both physical ones like chess and video ones, like Doom), copyright, LGBT+. A lot of what is written in the LRS Wiki is very subjective according to its author - this causes it to be a double-edged sword: it can teach you unique and fascinating things, but half of the time, information is buried under rants or the worst slurs you've ever seen. Like Wikipedia, you probably shouldn't use this as a direct source but as a jumping-off point for subjects.
With that said, it can be an excellent reference for topics like coding and computers, but other subjects like history, social issues, and biographies are terrible and often devolve into hate-fueled rants. That said, Drummyfish's rants and unexpected comments are actually why this wiki stands out - it's incredibly funny at times due to his socially unacceptable language, wild conclusions, and lack of self-awareness.
Reading the work of Číž can be a slog at times due to the sheer amount there is to look at, but it is still interesting at times, and some of his views are worth thinking about, namely his disdain for copyright (see license spectrum by Drummyfish) as well as his liking of minimalism and suckless software, especially for websites and coding.
Currently, the wiki was hosted on the tastyfish.cz website, although 2025 saw it being taken down by Drummy, existing, among some places, on the Internet Archive save of the wiki and on Git where it still sees new updates from time to time.
The NonRetarded Welfare Wiki, or NRW Wiki for short, is a wiki that is currently hosted on Git, as written, like the LRS Wiki, by one person, that being blitzdoughnuts, who describes the wiki as «[a] completely free and retardation-free encyclopedia».
The Grand Unified Wiki, or GUW, is a project by Drummyfish, owner of the Less Retarded Wiki, to have a master wiki of sorts made up of other wikis, all CC0. It has no real original works in it, rather a page; for example, Doom 1993 will have the LRS page on the subject, and then the NRW text on the game will be seen.
It's an interesting and fun idea to glue together other wikis; what also helps is that the script to make the GUW is easy to edit, so if there was a wiki that got overlooked, adding it yourself is not hard.
The Ephirium Wiki (as located on Git) is a wiki started in early 2026 by Zakhar Limar (also called EZS Ephir).
The Suckless Wiki (archive save, Git) is the name of a wiki that was written by ~yehorovye and ~yuzucchii, as it takes heavy influence from the LRS Wiki.
As being a part of a larger small trend of wikis inspired by the LRS Wiki, this currently unnamed wiki (on Git; has also been called TCW by Drummyfish, who made the LRS Wiki) is the sole work of tocariimaa, a self-deceived programmer and hermit.
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«Test quote.» –testquoter
Starting with normal, relatively non-tricky formatting.
Paragraph 1, something something, bold text, now
italic, bold AND italic, now
some code and strike through. Footnote1. Footnote2[^Another something.]
Escaped italic: *normal text*, and backtick (`). Links: existing, dead,
external, nonsense and empty. Can we simply use
[square brackets]? There are many spaces between these words here. Upper
index (a to b): a^b. Or maybe rather a^(b) (brackets around b). What
about math like (x + y)^3 / 7.5 e^i = -7*? Can we have
bold with * (asterisk) inside? Looks good? :)
Maybe also try bold link, half italic link and code as link. Series of minus
characters: - (1), – (2), - (3), -- (4). Three dots: ... Now is this_sub
or this_maybe? 4 backslashes: \\. Arrow: –>
Outside links:
this is a block of normal, sane code
BLOCK
{
if (something < X) // comment
doShit(function1(NULL)); // aligned comment
return whatever;
}
___________ _____
| | arrow / \
| rectangle | -----> | thing |
|___________| \_____/Now let's use MD tags inside a code block (mustn't get formatted):
# heading 1
Some text, **bold**, *italic*. Here's a link: [link text](something.md). Something^superscript.
- item 1
- item 2
- item 3
1. numbered item A
2. numbered item B
3. numbered item C
| head 1 | head 2 | head 3 |
| ------ | ------ | ------ |
| aaa | bbb | ccc |
| D | E | F |
This would be an image: .And the same in inline code: *italic*,
**bold**, [link](link.md) etc.
Here's a list:
monospace text
Here's an ordered one:
And now a table:
| column 1 | column 2 | and another | and the last |
|---|---|---|---|
| value 1 | value 2 | next empty | |
code |
BOLD | italic | a^sup |
| ABCDEFGHIJ | 1234.56 | link | last cell |
Here is an (empty) image:
Ane here's an image inside paragraph: 
. Looks fine?
Here are some symbols, each preceded by backslash, see what it does: , \0, ', \, `, |, ., ;, /, -, , _, :, ;, .
Here should be a horizontal line (3 minuses):
Here too (15 minuses):
Hello.
Hello from subsection.
Bye.
Paragraph starts.
Then two spaces and a line break, so this should be on a new line!
– This paragraph starts with two minuses.
``This paragraph starts with two ticks.
This paragraph starts with two spaces. It also ends with a space.
1 2 3 4, this should be a paragraph starting with numbers.
This paragraph has tabs between some words.
There are multiple newlines before this paragraph and one of the lines has only spaces. After this paragraph there are multiple newlines in a row.
Another paragraphs starts here. Single line break, this should STAY
part of «another paragraph» without any line break! What if we use HTML tags? cool?
(<– if this is red then HTML tags work). Other HTML tags:
bold, italic, link, ampersand:
&. What if we wrap in 4 asterisks ****aaaa****? What if we do
bold code? What if we do
italic code? HTML entities in text: < >
&. Weird characters? { } ( ) [ ] ! # ^ / _ - * < > ; . Can we
have the backtick (`) in code?.
ThismustbeonewordwithnospacesAndShouldnHaveAsterisks!
Unicode shit: ░▒▓█ × ± ∓ ÷ ∪. Žluťoučký kůň pěl
ódy. Test of inline code parsing: here is code with MD tags in it:
some **bold** text, now let's follow with another one:
some *italic* maybe, and another:
some [link](link.html) too.
mathtex: 1 + 1 = 4/2
Ordered list starting with 0:
This link is plain text (does it get auto-linked?): https://tilderadio.org.
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## # And this one has two spaces in front of it.
##This shouldn't be a heading because there's no space after hash. ## # Now trickier stuff:
Another way of formatting: bold, italic, bolditalic
block quote like greentext or email for example
##BadHeading (no space)
Emoji? :tent: :joy: :shit: ==This could be highlighted== (or not).
code block done
with indentation// this should be highlighted as C
#include <stdio.h>
int main(void)
{
puts(":)");
return 0;
}[
"this should",
"be",
{ "formatted": "as json" },
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with
asterisks
list
with
plus signs
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rendered?
[is this is link or what?] (dunno.md) And [this](this.md) is a link inside another link?
Unicode poison:
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Simple stuff again: italic text, bold text,
both in one, and some link. Now inline code
and maybe that's it :~)
graph TD
A[Start] --> B{Decision}
B -->|Yes| C[Finish]
B -->|No| D[Alternate]END
/me: //
[IRC; common] Under most IRC, /me
is the «pose» command; if you are logged on as Foonly and type
/me laughs, others watching the channel will see
* Joe Foonly laughs. This usage has been carried over to
mail and news, where the reader is expected to perform the same
expansion in their head.
* Now talking on #meta
sewi: ・゜゜・。。・゜゜\_o< QUACK!
Cass: ,bef
sewi: [Ducks] Cass befriended a duck in 2.57 seconds! You've befriended 64 ducks in #meta!
Cass: :^)
beowulf: so yeah, as i was saying the new femtanyl song is real good
Foonly: fr? link
beowulf: https://femtanyl.bandcamp.com/album/chaser
* Foonly starts to play the album
beowulf: :~)This recipe will result in two or three glass dishes of tasty, moist meatloaf. Great for family suppers.
Medieval beef soup with turnips and turnip greens.
Buckwheat is not very popular outside Russia, the former USSR, and some Asian countries; but it is a nice grain full of nutrients which can be used to prepare delicious and nutritious dishes.
The ingredients below are for 2 hearty portions.
Originally published at https://www.yaroslavps.com/food/merchants-buckwheat/
Mercury (Q308 on Wikidata) is the smallest planet in our Solar System and nearest to the Sun. It's only slightly larger than Earth's Moon. From the surface of Mercury, the Sun would appear more than three times as large as
it does when viewed from Earth, and the sunlight would be as much as
seven times brighter.
Mercury's surface temperatures are both extremely hot and cold. Because the planet is so close to the Sun, day temperatures can reach highs of 430°C. Without an atmosphere to retain that heat at night, temperatures can dip as low as -180°C.
Despite its proximity to the Sun, Mercury is not the hottest planet in our solar system - that title belongs to nearby Venus, thanks to its dense atmosphere. But Mercury is the fastest planet, zipping around the Sun every 88 Earth days.
Mercury is appropriately named for the swiftest of the ancient Roman gods.
Mercury's environment is not conducive to life as we know it. The temperatures and solar radiation that characterize this planet are most likely too extreme for organisms to adapt to.
With a radius of 2,440 kilometers, Mercury is a little more than 1/3 the width of Earth. If Earth were the size of a nickel, Mercury would be about as big as a blueberry.
From an average distance of 58 million kilometers, Mercury is 0.4 astronomical units away from the Sun. One astronomical unit (abbreviated as AU), is the distance from the Sun to Earth. From this distance, it takes sunlight 3.2 minutes to travel from the Sun to Mercury.
Mercury's highly eccentric, egg-shaped orbit takes the planet as close as 47 million kilometers and as far as 70 million kilometers from the Sun. It speeds around the Sun every 88 days, traveling through space at nearly 47 kilometers per second, faster than any other planet.
Mercury spins slowly on its axis and completes one rotation every 59 Earth days. But when Mercury is moving fastest in its elliptical orbit around the Sun (and it is closest to the Sun), each rotation is not accompanied by sunrise and sunset like it is on most other planets. The morning Sun appears to rise briefly, set, and rise again from some parts of the planet's surface. The same thing happens in reverse at sunset for other parts of the surface. One Mercury solar day (one full day-night cycle) equals 176 Earth days - just over two years on Mercury.
Mercury's axis of rotation is tilted just 2 degrees with respect to the plane of its orbit around the Sun. That means it spins nearly perfectly upright and so does not experience seasons as many other planets do.
Mercury doesn't have moons.
Mercury doesn't have rings.
Mercury formed about 4.5 billion years ago when gravity pulled swirling gas and dust together to form this small planet nearest the Sun. Like its fellow terrestrial planets, Mercury has a central core, a rocky mantle, and a solid crust.
Mercury is the second densest planet, after Earth. It has a large metallic core with a radius of about 2,074 kilometers, about 85% of the planet's radius. There is evidence that it is partly molten or liquid. Mercury's outer shell, comparable to Earth's outer shell (called the mantle and crust), is only about 250 miles thick.
Mercury's surface resembles that of Earth's Moon, scarred by many impact craters resulting from collisions with meteoroids and comets. Craters and features on Mercury are named after famous deceased artists, musicians, or authors, including children's author Dr. Seuss and dance pioneer Alvin Ailey.
Very large impact basins, including Caloris (1,550 kilometers in diameter) and Rachmaninoff (306 kilometers in diameter), were created by asteroid impacts on the planet's surface early in the solar system's history. While there are large areas of smooth terrain, there are also cliffs, some hundreds of miles long and soaring up to a mile high. They rose as the planet's interior cooled and contracted over the billions of years since Mercury formed.
Most of Mercury's surface would appear greyish-brown to the human eye. The bright streaks are called «crater rays.» They are formed when an asteroid or comet strikes the surface. The tremendous amount of energy that is released in such an impact digs a big hole in the ground, and also crushes a huge amount of rock under the point of impact. Some of this crushed material is thrown far from the crater and then falls to the surface, forming the rays. Fine particles of crushed rock are more reflective than large pieces, so the rays look brighter. The space environment - dust impacts and solar-wind particles - causes the rays to darken with time.
Temperatures on Mercury are extreme. During the day, temperatures on the surface can reach 430 degrees Celsius. Because the planet has no atmosphere to retain that heat, nighttime temperatures on the surface can drop to minus 180 degrees Celsius.
Mercury may have water ice at its north and south poles inside deep craters, but only in regions in permanent shadows. In those shadows, it could be cold enough to preserve water ice despite the high temperatures on sunlit parts of the planet.
Instead of an atmosphere, Mercury possesses a thin exosphere made up of atoms blasted off the surface by the solar wind and striking meteoroids. Mercury's exosphere is composed mostly of oxygen, sodium, hydrogen, helium, and potassium.
Mercury's magnetic field is offset relative to the planet's equator. Though Mercury's magnetic field at the surface has just 1% the strength of Earth's, it interacts with the magnetic field of the solar wind to sometimes create intense magnetic tornadoes that funnel the fast, hot solar wind plasma down to the surface of the planet. When the ions strike the surface, they knock off neutrally charged atoms and send them on a loop high into the sky.
Miso-soup is Japanese traditional home cooking.
Beat the yolks of four eggs with 1 cup sugar to a cream, to which add 1 tablespoon of mocha extract (Cross and Blackwell's). Beat whites stiff and fold them in with 3/4 cup of flour and 1 teaspoon baking powder. Bake in 2 layers in oven.
3/4 pint cream well whipped, to which add 1 1/2 tablespoons mocha extract. Sugar to taste. Ice top with boiled icing flavored with one tablespoon of mocha extract.
The oyster plant is used for this delicious dish–by many it is known as salsify. Scrape the vegetable and cut into small pieces with a silver knife (a steel knife would darken the oyster plant). Cook in just enough water to keep from burning, and when tender press through a colander and return to the water in which it was cooked. Add three cups of hot milk which has been thickened with a little butter and flour and rubbed together and seasoned with salt and white pepper. A little chopped parsley may be added before serving. 1/2 cup cream instead of all milk greatly improves taste.
This is a modern take on classic Eastern European Borscht. Meat is optional, but quality beef cuts are recommended and preferred.
This is a simple mushroom sauce recipe. Goes great with pasta.
Prep time: 10 Minutes Cook time: 20 Minutes Servings: 2
Boil onions, peppers in the vinegar; then add the cucumber. After it has boiled a few minutes add the cauliflower and then the mustard sauce. Boil together a few minutes; bottle and seal hot.
The cauliflower must be boiled alone before adding.
This is very excellent.
As written by Ruth Stiles Gannett (1923 - 2024; Q7383228
on Wikidata), My Father's
Dragon (Q11291108)
is the name of a 1948 children's novel that follows a young boy who runs
away from home on a mission to save a dragon who has been enslaved by
the locals on Wild Island after hearing about this from an old alley
cat.
The My Father's Dragon is unique in that it is a retelling of events by a son, Elmer, telling the story of his father. The main character is simply called «my father», who goes on adventures, like sneaking onto a ship, making his way through a jungle, and meeting wild and scary animals, to free this soul dragon. It is a story of selflessness and how people can go out of their way to help others, even if the odds are against them and they have no reason to help.
Since being published, the book has fallen into the public domain, losing its copyright.
One cold rainy day when my father was a little boy, he met an old alley cat on his street. The cat was very drippy and uncomfortable so my father said, «Wouldn't you like to come home with me?»
This surprised the cat-she had never before met anyone who cared about old alley cats-but she said, «I'd be very much obliged if I could sit by a warm furnace, and perhaps have a saucer of milk.»
«We have a very nice furnace to sit by,» said my father, «and I'm sure my mother has an extra saucer of milk.»
A curry serves best with naan that is unleavened bread. Traditionally made in ‘Tandoor or clay oven' but at home, we will be making it in the oven and/or on the stovetop. Naan is not eaten solely but acts as assortments with meat, veggies, or egg items.
If you love spicy foods and chicken then this Nashville Hot Chicken sandwich recipe is just for you. It takes some time with prepping and process but when you take that first bite all the effort will be worth it. It's unlike any other fried chicken recipe that includes double frying your chicken and using the same cooking oil from your fry as a sauce for the Nashville Hot Chicken spice.
Nashville Hot Chicken was invented by a man named Thorton Prince. It is said that he came home late one night and whipped this dish up randomly. Could you imagine creating this staple of a dish late night after coming home from an evening of festivities, blows my mind. Let's get into the recipe now.
Batter - 2 Cups Buttermilk - 1/3 Cup Hot sauce
Flour - 2 1/2 Cups All-purpose flour - 3 tbsp Cornstarch - 3 tbsp Seasoned salt - 1 tbsp Paprika - 2 tsp Cayenne pepper - 2 tsp Black pepper - 1 tbsp Garlic powder - 1 tbsp Onion powder - 2 tsp Dry mustard powder
Nashville Hot Chicken - 2 tbsp Nashville Hot Chicken seasoning - 2 tbsp Adobo honey seasoning - 2 tbsp Dark brown sugar - 1 tsp Chili powder - 1 tsp Garlic powder - 1 tsp Smoked paprika - 1 1/2 Cups Cooking oil Used to fry the chicken
Sauce For the Buns - 3 tbsp Mayo - 1 tbsp Ketchup - 2 tbsp Sweet relish - 1 tbsp Hot sauce
:)Neoliberalism is just largely a return to liberalism: the idea that a government's role is to help business, and that markets can be used as a force for good.
Maybe best exemplified by Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, Alan Greenspan, and Bill Clinton; the support of «free trade» agreements like NAFTA and TPP or organizations like the IMF or WTO; opposition to people like Ralph Nader in the 1970s; concepts like «the marketplace of ideas» or «soft power»; in short, everything is a market, and the experts should decide the best policies to help the market.
Neptune (Q332 on Wikidata) is the eighth, and most distant planet
from the Sun. It's the fourth-largest, and the
first planet discovered with math.
Dark, cold, and whipped by supersonic winds, ice giant Neptune is more than 30 times as far from the Sun as Earth. Neptune is the only planet in our solar system not visible to the naked eye. In 2011 Neptune completed its first 165-year orbit since its discovery in 1846.
Neptune is so far from the Sun that high noon on the big blue planet would seem like dim twilight to us. The warm light we see here on our home planet is roughly 900 times as bright as sunlight on Neptune.
Galileo recorded Neptune as a fixed star during observations with his small telescope in 1612 and 1613. More than 200 years later, the ice giant became the first planet located through mathematical predictions rather than through regular observations of the sky. Because Uranus didn't travel exactly as astronomers expected it to, French mathematician Urbain Joseph Le Verrier proposed the position and mass of a then-unknown planet that could cause the observed changes to Uranus' orbit. Le Verrier sent his predictions to Johann Gottfried Galle at the Berlin Observatory, who found Neptune on his first night of searching in 1846. Seventeen days later, Neptune's largest moon Triton was discovered as well.
Neptune's environment is not conducive to life as we know it. The temperatures, pressures, and materials that characterize this planet are most likely too extreme, and volatile for organisms to adapt to.
With an equatorial diameter of 49,528 kilometers, Neptune is about four times wider than Earth. If Earth were the size of a nickel, Neptune would be about as big as a baseball.
From an average distance of 4.5 billion kilometers, Neptune is 30 astronomical units away from the Sun. One astronomical unit (abbreviated as AU), is the distance from the Sun to Earth. From this distance, it takes sunlight 4 hours to travel from the Sun to Neptune.
One day on Neptune takes about 16 hours (the time it takes for Neptune to rotate or spin once). And Neptune makes a complete orbit around the Sun (a year in Neptunian time) in about 165 Earth years (60,190 Earth days).
Sometimes Neptune is even farther from the Sun than dwarf planet Pluto. Pluto's highly eccentric, oval-shaped orbit brings it inside Neptune's orbit for a 20-year period every 248 Earth years. This switch, in which Pluto is closer to the Sun than Neptune, happened most recently from 1979 to 1999. Pluto can never crash into Neptune, though, because for every three laps Neptune takes around the Sun, Pluto makes two. This repeating pattern prevents close approaches of the two bodies.
Neptune's axis of rotation is tilted 28 degrees with respect to the plane of its orbit around the Sun, which is similar to the axial tilts of Mars and Earth. This means that Neptune experiences seasons just like we do on Earth; however, since its year is so long, each of the four seasons lasts for over 40 years.
Neptune has 16 known moons. Neptune's largest moon Triton was discovered on Oct. 10, 1846, by William Lassell, just 17 days after Johann Gottfried Galle discovered the planet. Since Neptune was named for the Roman god of the sea, its moons are named for various lesser sea gods and nymphs in Greek mythology.
Triton is the only large moon in the solar system that circles its planet in a direction opposite to the planet's rotation (a retrograde orbit), which suggests that it may once have been an independent object that Neptune captured. Triton is extremely cold, with surface temperatures around minus 235 degrees Celsius. And yet, despite this deep freeze at Triton, Voyager 2 discovered geysers spewing icy material upward more than 8 kilometers. Triton's thin atmosphere, also discovered by Voyager, has been detected from Earth several times since, and is growing warmer, but scientists do not yet know why.
Neptune has at least five main rings and four prominent ring arcs that we know of so far. Starting near the planet and moving outward, the main rings are named Galle, Leverrier, Lassell, Arago, and Adams. The rings are thought to be relatively young and short-lived.
Neptune's ring system also has peculiar clumps of dust called arcs. Four prominent arcs named Liberté (Liberty), Egalité (Equality), Fraternité (Fraternity), and Courage are in the outermost ring, Adams. The arcs are strange because the laws of motion would predict that they would spread out evenly rather than stay clumped together. Scientists now think the gravitational effects of Galatea, a moon just inward from the ring, stabilizes these arcs.
| Name | Distance from Planet's Center | Radial Width |
|---|---|---|
| Galle | 41,900 kilometers | 9.3 miles (15 kilometers) |
| Leverrier | 53,200 kilometers | 9.3 miles (15 kilometers) |
| Lassell | 55,400 kilometers | - |
| Arago | 57,600 kilometers | - |
| Adams | 62,930 kilometers | 50 kilometers |
| Liberté (Arc) | 62,900 kilometers | - |
| Egalité (Arc) | 62,900 kilometers | - |
| Fraternité (Arc) | 62,900 kilometers | - |
| Courage (Arc) | 62,900 kilometers | - |
Source: U.S. Geological Survey, Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature, Planetary Names: Ring and Ring Gap Nomenclature, https://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Page/Rings.
Neptune took shape when the rest of the solar system formed about 4.5 billion years ago when gravity pulled swirling gas and dust in to become this ice giant. Like its neighbor Uranus, Neptune likely formed closer to the Sun and moved to the outer solar system about 4 billion years ago.
Neptune is one of two ice giants in the outer solar system (the other is Uranus). Most (80% or more) of the planet's mass is made up of a hot dense fluid of «icy» materials - water, methane, and ammonia - above a small, rocky core. Of the giant planets, Neptune is the densest.
Scientists think there might be an ocean of super hot water under Neptune's cold clouds. It does not boil away because incredibly high pressure keeps it locked inside.
Neptune does not have a solid surface. Its atmosphere (made up mostly of hydrogen, helium, and methane) extends to great depths, gradually merging into water and other melted ices over a heavier, solid core with about the same mass as Earth.
Neptune's atmosphere is made up mostly of hydrogen and helium with just a little bit of methane. Neptune's neighbor Uranus has a similar makeup; the methane absorbs other colors but reflects blue, giving these ice giants their similar hue. Many images of Neptune, coming from the Voyager 2 flyby in 1989, show Neptune as a much deeper blue. This was because the Voyager team tweaked the images, to better reveal clouds and other distinctive features on the planet, compared to the hazy, uniform view of Uranus that Voyager 2 had captured in 1986. Researchers in 2024 re-processed the images, showing the planets look much more alike than many thought.
Neptune is our solar system's windiest world. Despite its great distance and low energy input from the Sun, Neptune's winds can be three times stronger than Jupiter's and nine times stronger than Earth's. These winds whip clouds of frozen methane across the planet at speeds of more than 2,000 kilometers per hour. Even Earth's most powerful winds hit only about 400 kilometers per hour.
In 1989 a large, oval-shaped storm in Neptune's southern hemisphere dubbed the «Great Dark Spot» was large enough to contain the entire Earth. That storm has since disappeared, but new ones have appeared on different parts of the planet.
The main axis of Neptune's magnetic field is tipped over by about 47 degrees compared with the planet's rotation axis. Like Uranus, whose magnetic axis is tilted about 60 degrees from the axis of rotation, Neptune's magnetosphere undergoes wild variations during each rotation because of this misalignment. The magnetic field of Neptune is about 27 times more powerful than that of Earth.
nethack: /net´hak/, n.
[Unix] A dungeon game similar to rogue but more elaborate, distributed in C source over Usenet and very popular at Unix sites and on PC-class machines (nethack is probably the most widely distributed of the freeware dungeon games). The earliest versions, written by Jay Fenlason and later considerably enhanced by Andries Brouwer, were simply called ‘hack'. The name changed when maintenance was taken over by a group of hackers originally organized by Mike Stephenson. There is now an official site at http://www.nethack.org/. See also moria, rogue, Angband.
In many remote areas or during travel, outages, or just intentional disconnection, you may find that there are times when you have little to no Internet access. Of course, our ancestors somehow all managed to make it their whole lives without this technology, but being without it now in the 21st century can be frustrating.
This page serves as advice on what to do when you are without internet.
Firstly, public libraries are a great resource for getting access to the Internet, although you will be kicked out if you try and spend the whole night in one. But with just a USB, you'll be set.
There are countless games that you can play without having access to the Internet. Freedoom, SuperTux, LibreQuake are just a few examples of free and open-source computer games that can be run on most devices.
Of course, there are also proprietary games that you can enjoy. Minecraft requires no connection at all and can be enjoyed for hours.
Kiwix is a very useful app that you can use on most of your devices; it allows you to download an offline version of a website and view it later.
We recommend downloading Wikipedia, Project Gutenberg.
It is also possible to download whole sites via
wget.
For videos, using yt-dlp is a must and is elementary, allowing you to download YouTube videos (as well as from other sites) in seconds. The Internet Archive is also another good resource for media, and so is Wikimedia Commons (a Wikipedia sister project).
Yeah, don't want to sound like an old person, but there's a lot to do outside just waiting for you to enjoy.
Why not? Painting and making art is very accessible to most, if not all, people. The tools needed to make anything remotely good are very low.
On a computer, you probably have some form of art program; Microsoft Windows has MS Paint, Mac has... Sometimes, find out, and if you're on Linux, your distro may or may not have something installed already (Pinta is basic but understandable, GIMP is also good, just search up online and see what is best for you).
But even still, you most definitely don't need a computer to make art. Pencil and paper is an option. Just anything basic will work.
Think about it this way: our ancestors billions of years ago had all but nothing, but they still painted on walls with their hands. If they can do that, you can enjoy the relaxing experience of making something.
:^)Writing down all you know into a basic wiki is surprisingly fun and relaxing; we all know something worth sharing. Might as well try it at least once.
Perfect for pan pizza in an 11 inch iron skillet.
Pick out and wash prunes; then soak 1 hour in cold water, and boil until soft; remove stones; obtain meat from stones and add to prunes; then add sugar, cinnamon, boiling water, and simmer ten minutes.
Dilute corn starch with enough cold water to pour easily; add to prune mixture and cook five minutes. Remove cinnamon; mould; then chill and serve with whipped cream.
Numeric zero, as opposed to the letter ‘O' (the 15th letter of the English alphabet). In their unmodified forms they look a lot alike, and various kluges invented to make them visually distinct have compounded the confusion. If your zero is center-dotted and letter-O is not, or if letter-O looks almost rectangular but zero looks more like an American football stood on end (or the reverse), you're probably looking at a modern character display (though the dotted zero seems to have originated as an option on IBM 3270 controllers). If your zero is slashed but letter-O is not, you're probably looking at an old-style ASCII graphic set descended from the default typewheel on the venerable ASR-33 Teletype (Scandinavians, for whom Ø is a letter, curse this arrangement). (Interestingly, the slashed zero long predates computers; Florian Cajori's monumental A History of Mathematical Notations notes that it was used in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.) If letter-O has a slash across it and the zero does not, your display is tuned for a very old convention used at IBM and a few other early mainframe makers (Scandinavians curse this arrangement even more, because it means two of their letters collide). Some Burroughs/Unisys equipment displays a zero with a reversed slash. Old CDC computers rendered letter O as an unbroken oval and 0 as an oval broken at upper right and lower left. And yet another convention common on early line printers left zero unornamented but added a tail or hook to the letter-O so that it resembled an inverted Q or cursive capital letter-O (this was endorsed by a draft ANSI standard for how to draw ASCII characters, but the final standard changed the distinguisher to a tick-mark in the upper-left corner). Are we sufficiently confused yet?
Let rise 30 minutes. Bake one hour.
Nut hash is a good breakfast dish. Chop fine cold boiled potatoes and any other vegetable which is on hand and put into buttered frying pan, heat quickly and thoroughly, salt to taste, and just before removing from the fire stir in lightly a large spoonful of peanut meal for each person to be served. To prepare the meal at home, procure raw nuts, shell them and put in the oven just long enough to loosen the brown skin; rub these off and put the nuts through the grinder adjusted to make meal rather than an oily mixture. This put in glass jars, and kept in a cool place will be good for weeks. It may too, be used for thickening soups or sauces, or may be added in small quantities to breakfast muffins and griddle-cakes.
Potato soup, cream of pea, corn or asparagus and bean soup may be made after the ordinary recipes, omitting the butter and flour and adding four tablespoons of peanut meal.
1 1/2 cups of walnut meats will do. 1/4 lb. of the meats is 1 1/2 cups. A 1/4 lb. of the meats equals 1/2 lb. in the shells and the labor of shelling is saved.
Melt butter and pour over mixture, salt, then add enough milk to moisten, so as to form the shape of a loaf of bread. Too little milk will cause the loaf to separate, likewise, too much will make it mushy. Chop walnuts exceedingly fine. Bake between 20 to 30 minutes in buttered bread pan or baking dish. A small slice goes very far as it is solid and rich. Serve with hot tomato sauce.
This makes a delicious luncheon dish, served with peas and a nice salad.
On a crisp winter morning a dish of nut scrapple is very appetizing and just as nutritious as that made of pork. To make it, take two cupfuls of cornmeal, one of hominy and a tablespoon of salt and cook in a double boiler, with just enough boiling water until it is of the consistency of frying. While still hot add two cupfuls of nut meats which had been put through the chopper; pour into buttered pan and use like other scrapple.
Peanut omelet is a delicious way to serve nuts. Make a cream sauce with one tablespoon of butter, two tablespoons of flour and three-quarters of a cupful of flour and three-quarters of a cupful of milk poured in slowly. Take from the fire, season, add three-quarters of a cupful of ground peanuts and pour the mixture on the lightly beaten yolks of three eggs. Fold in the stiffly beaten whites, pour into a hot baking dish and bake for 20 minutes.
Nut turkey for Thanksgiving instead of the national bird, made by mixing one quart of sifted dry bread crumbs with one pint of chopped English walnuts-any other kind of nuts will go-and one cupful of peanuts, simply washed and dried, and adding a level teaspoon of sage, two of salt, a tablespoon of chopped parsley, two raw eggs, not beaten, and sufficient water to bind the mass together. Then form into the shape of a turkey, with pieces of macaroni to form the leg bones. Brush with a little butter and bake an hour in a slow oven and serve with drawn butter sauce.
A dinner roast made of nuts and cheese contains the elements of meat. Cook two tablespoons of chopped onion in a tablespoon of butter and a little water until it is tender, then mix with it one cupful each of grated cheese, chopped English walnuts and bread crumbs, salt and pepper to taste and the juice of half a lemon; moisten with water, using that in which the onion has been cooked; put into a shallow baking dish and brown in the oven.
Hickory nut loaf is another dish which can take the place of meat at dinner. Mix two cups of rolled oats, a cupful each of celery and milk, two cups of bread crumbs and two eggs, season and shape, then bake 20 minutes. Serve with a gravy made like other gravy, with the addition of a teaspoon of rolled nuts.
Although many are trying to eliminate so much meat from menus on account of its soaring cost, the person who performs hard labor must have in its place something which contains the chief constituents of meat, protein and fats, or the body will not respond to the demands made upon it because of lowered vitality from lack of food elements needed. Scientific analyses have proven that nuts contain more food value to the pound than almost any other food product known. Ten cent's worth of peanuts, for example, at 7 cents a pound will furnish more than twice the protein and six times more energy than could be obtained by the same outlay for a porterhouse steak at 25 cents a pound.
One reason for the tardy appreciation of the nutritive value of nuts is their reputation of indigestibility. The discomfort from eating them is often due to insufficient mastication and to the fact that they are usually eaten when not needed, as after a hearty meal or late at night, whereas, being so concentrated, they should constitute an integral part of the menu, rather than supplement an already abundant meal, says the Philadelphia Ledger. They should be used in connection with more bulky carbohydrate foods, such as vegetables, fruits, bread, crackers, etc.; too concentrated nutriment is often the cause of digestive disturbance, for a certain bulkiness is essential to normal assimilation.
Oatmeal nut loaf can be served cold in place of meat for Sunday night tea. Put two cups of water in a sauce pan; when boiling add a cupful of oatmeal, stirring until thick; then stir in a cupful of peanuts that have been twice through the grinder, two tablespoons of salt, half a teaspoon of butter, and pack into a tin bucket with a tight fitting lid and steam for two hours; slice down when cold. This will keep several days if left in the covered tin and kept in a cool place. A delicious sandwich filling can be made from chopped raisins and nuts mixed with a little orange or lemon juice. Cooked prunes may be used instead of raisins.
Rastus: «So you wife am one of dem Suffragettes? Why don't yo show her de evil ob sech pernicious doctrine by telling her her place am beside de fireside?»
Sambo: «Huh! She dun shoot back sayin' dat if it wasn't foh her takin' in washin' dere wouldn't be any fireside.»
- Puck (magazine;Q1584058on Wikidata).
Oats are great for breakfast. On their own they're pretty bland, but become great when you add some things to the bowl. This recipe offers some suggestions on what to add, but is by no means a comprehensive overview of what you can do with oats.
We cover both rolled and steel cut oats. Instant need not apply.
Pick and choose additional ingredients:
You'll need less dry steel cut oats versus rolled oats for the same serving size. My personal «standard serving» is 1/3 cup steel cut or 1/2 cup rolled (note that, per the ratios above, both of these end up needing 1 cup water).
Okonomiyaki is a Japanese savory pancake. Instead of using air bubbles to lighten the pancake, thin strips of cabbage provide levity to the cake. This is a very popular street food in Japan, and can be topped with all sorts of different ingredients, as «Okonomiyaki» roughly translates to «Grilled how you like».
125g flour
1 egg
125ml water
Thinly sliced meat, any kind can do, sliced pork, beef, even bacon
Dashi powder or any desired seasonings
2-4 leaves cabbage
Pinch salt to taste
The following options are traditional but can be substituted with any desired toppings
A hearty and healthy cold soup, which is especially good to eat in the hot season. Author's recipe.
No directions were given in the original text.
1TBS: //, n.
The «One True Brace Style»; see indent style.
Writing on birch bark was common, to say the least. During the 1950s, a dig was started to find these; so far, over 1000 have been found and indexed over the years. Online, you can find digital copies of these over at gramoty.ru (sadly just in Russian). This is a tool to look into the mind of what people at the time were thinking - some of them are rude: «Brother Jakov, do your screwing lying down, you horny ballser!» reads one. I suppose the way that people at the time treated these birch barks is as rude as we treat text messages. The context to these letters sent was not just to brothers; there were so many written ones to lovers, friends, and ones talking about everyday life. Due to the way that the people of Veliky Novgorod, now Russia, saw these birch barks, they were simply thrown away into the mud; they wanted them to be thrown into the trash, but due to this mud and the lack of air inside of it, this is why we know so much about them.
One of my favorite finds of this was Onfim (Q3891932
on Wikidata), or «Онѳимє» as he would have
written it in the East
Slavic Old Novgorod, who lived around 1220–60. We don't know much
about this boy, but what we do know about him is, like many of the
birch, is thanks to the mud of Russia.
From what I have seen from the images uploaded online, Onfim, who was around six or seven at the time, was a school child who was made to write out things like Bible lines as well as other things, such as writing out the Cyrillic script in our ABCs. But, as with many children, Onfim had better things on his mind.
Diploma number 202 shows two people, two noodle-like people with forks for fingers, standing together; one of them to the left (who is only made up of arms, fingers, a simple round head, and a very long pair of legs) also has what some people think could be a beard, suggesting that the other person could be one of Onfim himself.
This is the art of the boy from the 1200s, doodles that he should not have been making. It's joyful to see.
Number 200 shows a person on horseback, striking down a poor soul with a pike or lance. Next to the horseback rider is the name ONFIM, telling us that this is the young boy killing another stickman.
«Lord, help your servant/slave Onfim» reads number 203, showing another stickman holding a long lance or pike, aiming for another person in the head. A lot of Onfim's work is of wars and battles, a daydream for the young boy.
My top pick of his work is Diploma number 199; it's a note that on one side has schoolwork on it. Turn it around and we can see a note. «Greetings from Onfim to Danilo!» says the boy with the final part of the text reading, «I am a wild beast!» Next to this text, we see that Onfim drew himself as a long noodle that appears to be a dragon with a square head, pointy ears, a tail that curls around on itself, all while spitting FIRE. It's adorable to see this boy picture himself as a scary animal like this, and of course, for all that it is worth, we should not know about Onfim, as, well, his work was put in the ground at the time.
I only talked about what I feel is a highlight of his work, but there are others to be found.
But, to end this off, what does this tell us? What can we learn from this child who lived so long ago? Well, a few things, mostly about education. We know that in what is now Russia, people, and children, were able to read and write, and we know that children are still the same, still wanting to do better things with their time than learn how to read and write.
I encourage people to take the time in looking up Onfim; there are a few good videos and articles about this boy, including even an album named after him. Wikipedia is a good jumping-off point for most things, including this subject.
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Raitha is an yogurt-based Indian style sauce that goes great with rice dishes such as Pilau and Biriyani. It's quite similar to a greek Tzatziki and is quick and quite easy to make. It's great especially with super spicy indian dishes as it provides as a sweet and cooling effect.
The open web is built on multiple technologies recommended by the W3C. This page is dedicated to taking notes about protocols and standards, and basic details of their implementation.
Technologies that can be included in static HTML files, no backend server needed. Static site generators can generate these if the template supports them.
Microformats (microformats.org) are used to define the Semantic Web, which aims to make machine-readable meta-content.
The goal of the IndieWeb project (see: indieweb.org) is to allow websites to be used as full-fledged substitutes for other services. The ideal indiewebsite would be able to self-host media content in multiple post types, serve as an authentication for logging into other services, and be used as a person's identity. Indieweb strategies include using your domain name as your identity, self-hosting your own data on that domain, syndicating copies of your content to silo services, and maintaining actually permanent permalinks.
ActivityPub is a federated social networking protocol that defines server-to-server and client-to-server interactions via ActivityStreams 2.0 and the Activity Vocab. It's basically email over JSON. Actors act on Objects that are sent and delivered via an Inbox and Outbox in various Collections. https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/
This jam is a traditional topping for the Polish mazurek, but can be used as a generic sweet spread.
Slice in small pieces, add six pints of water and let stand in covered dish for 24 hours. Then boil 1 1/4 hours; let stand another 24 hours. Then add pint for pint of sugar with the mixture and boil until it jells. (About 45 minutes).
Grate apple; add orange, sugar, butter and yolks. Beat whites and add lastly. Bake slowly in open shells.
Q5362164
on Wikidata), an American writer of popular
cookbooks during the nineteenth century.Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (Q30875 on
Wikidata) was born in 1854-10-16, Dublin,
being the second son of Sir William Robert Wilde (1815 - 1876; Q2540254),
a celebrated surgeon who was President of the Irish Academy and Chairman
of the Census Committee and to mother Jane Francesca (1821 - 1896; Q272303),
daughter of Archdeacon Elgee.
She was born in 1826, and married in 1851. She became famous in literary circles under the pen-names of «Speranza» and «John Fenshawe Ellis» - Jane Francesca was a clever woman, who, when very young, writing as «Speranza» in a revolutionary paper, had tried to rouse Irishmen to the storming of Dublin Castle. She read Latin and Greek.
When Wilde was born, she was twenty-eight and her husband thirty-nine. They were people of consideration in Dublin. It is said, that before Wilde's birth, his mother had hoped for a girl. He was a second son. His elder brother, William, became a journalist in London, and died in 1899. He had a sister, Isola, younger than himself, who died in childhood.
Oscar Wilde received his early education at Portora Royal School, Enniskillen, which he entered in 1864 at the age of nine years. Here he remained for seven years, and, winning a Royal scholarship, he entered Trinity College, Dublin, on 1871-10-19, being then seventeen years of age. In the following year he obtained First Class Honours in Classics in Hilary, Trinity and Michaelmas Terms; he also won the Gold Medal for Greek and other distinctions.
The Trinity College magazine Kottabos, for the years 1876-9, contains some of his earliest published poems.
He would leave Dublin for Oxford, matriculating at Magdalen and
taking a scholarship. In 1876 he took a First Class in Classical
Moderations, always a sufficient proof of sound learning, and, in 1878,
he took a First Class in Literae Humaniores. In 1877 he travelled in
Italy and went to Greece with Professor Mahaffy (Q2568204).
This experience had great influence on his attitude towards art, filled
the classical dictionary with life, and made the figures of mythology so
luminous that he was tempted to overwork them. In 1878 he read the
Newdigate Prize Poem in the Sheldonian Theatre.
Drain oysters. Put butter in pan and cook oysters until they curl. Beat eggs lightly and put over oysters; season and shake until done. Serve at once.
These make a more substantial dish, and are delicious when served with a celery salad: Six oysters, six slices of bacon, fried bread, seasoning. Cut very thin strips of bacon that can be purchased already shaved is best for the purpose. Season the oysters with pepper and salt, and wrap each in a slice of the bacon, pinning it together with a wooden splint (a toothpick). Place each oyster on a round of toast or of fried bread, and cook in the oven for about five minutes. Serve very hot, and sprinkle with pepper.
Valencian Paella is one of the most iconic dishes of Spanish cuisine, originating from the Valencia region. It is characterized by a combination of rice, meats, and vegetables, cooked in a paella pan over an open fire.
Beat slightly six eggs, add six tablespoons sugar, a pinch of salt and one-half teaspoon vanilla. Scald three cups of milk and pour slowly over the eggs, stirring constantly.
Melt in a granite or aluminum baking dish six tablespoons of sugar until brown, using no water. Pour the custard into this, set into a pan of hot water and bake in a slow oven 45 minutes or more until the custard is set, and a testing knife comes out clean. The water in the pan must not boil.
When perfectly cold turn upside down into a glass or china serving dish.
This recipe was written by Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt (1859 - 1947; Q270207 on
Wikidata), who was an
American women's suffrage leader who campaigned for the Nineteenth
Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Pan pizza gives a thick and crispy crust 🍕. For this recipe, start early with the dough, preferably the night before. It takes a lot of time, but little effort and gives a fantastic result.
This is a quick and easy recipe to prepare delicious chicken fillets that are juicy on the inside, and crisp on the outside.
For this recipe I don't use any exact proportions, it's just a matter of cooking it one time to get a sense of what the ideal proportions for you are.
Originally published at https://www.yaroslavps.com/food/pan-seared-chicken-filet/
(With apologies to the English Suffragists)
A bit of hot water in which soda is dissolved.
Put flour in a basin, and rub in butter, and dry ingredients; then, soda and water; pour in treacle, and knead to smooth paste. Roll quite thin and cut in oblongs. Bake about 1/4 hour.
You can have this as a side dish, or for breakfast. Well, you can have it whenever and wherever you want if you are cooking it! We are grown ups here after all.
As you can already probably imagine, this dish doesn't require a lot of ingredients. The quantities are for one average hungry student. If you want to have it as a side dish this should be enough for two persons.
Originally published at https://www.yaroslavps.com/food/parmesan-potatoes/
This is a simple outline of how to cook pasta. TL;DR: you boil it. Pasta is usually eaten with some kind of pasta sauce or used in another dish.
The often recommended way to cook most pasta is al dente, which often means «slightly undercooked,» or with a subtle firmness that makes it still substantial. Cooking pasta more than that is no great crime, but if you keep it in there for too long, it'll become mush.
A delicious Sicilian pasta dish, with Aubergines in a tomato sauce topped with fresh basil.
This is one of the three pasta dishes that I usually cook. It's a Russian pasta recipe that is fast and easy to make and is quite tasty.
Here are the ingredients for about two hearty adult portions:
Originally published at https://www.yaroslavps.com/food/navy-style-pasta/
This is very simple pasta sauce. Unlike modern store-bought sauces, there is no added sugar, only the subtle taste of San Marzano tomatoes.
This is the most traditional dish that every household eats in Quebec. As a kid, you would eat Pâté Chinois at least once a week, either at home or at the school's cafeteria,. It is very similar to a Shepherd's Pie, as it is divided in 3 layers of ingredients: meat, legumes and mashed potatoes. The literal translation of the name is something like chinese pie. You can search for the origin of the name on the internet, I'm not an history teacher.
Pour liquid with peanut butter into double boiler; dissolve butter so there are no hard lumps. Do not let milk boil but place on moderately hot fire.
Just before serving add the catsup and seasoning.
Peanut soup for supper on a cold night serves the double duty of stimulating the gastric juices to quicken action by its warmth and furnishing protein to the body to repair its waste. Pound to a paste a cupful of nuts from which the skin has been removed, add it to a pint of milk and scald; melt a tablespoon of butter and mix it with a like quantity of flour and add slowly to the milk and peanuts; cook until it thickens and season to taste.
Chestnuts, too, make a splendid soup. Boil one quart of peeled and blanched chestnuts in three pints of salt water until quite soft; pass through sieve and add two tablespoons of sweet cream, and season to taste. If too thick, add water.
Arrange either fresh or cooked pears on lettuce leaves, and pour over pears sweet cream dressing. Over this grate cocoanut and on top place cherries.
A raw carrot salad to support digestive, hormone and thyroid health
«Endotoxin formed in the bowel can block respiration and cause hormone imbalances contributing to instability of the nerves, so it is helpful to optimize bowel flora, for example with a carrot salad; a dressing of vinegar, coconut oil and olive oil, carried into the intestine by the carrot fiber, suppresses bacterial growth while stimulating healing of the wall of the intestine. The carrot salad improves the ratio of progesterone to estrogen and cortisol, and so is as appropriate for epilepsy as for premenstrual syndrome, insomnia, or arthritis.» -Ray Peat
Grate the carrot and rinse out under water. Then mix with coconut oil and vinegar, I also like to add a pinch or two of salt.
Mix rice, nut meats, cracker crumbs; then add egg well beaten, the milk, salt and pepper.
Turn into buttered bread pan; pour over butter, cover and bake in a moderate oven 1 hour.
Put on hot platter and pour around same this sauce:
Cook 3 tablespoons butter with slice of onion and a few pimentos, stirring constantly. Add 3 tablespoons flour; stir, pour in gradually 1½ cups milk.
Season and strain.
«I am in earnest. I will not equivocate-I will not excuse-I will not retreat a single inch-AND I WILL BE HEARD.»
- Wm. Lloyd Garrison (1805 - 1879; Q360155 on Wikidata).
Soak tripe over night in salt water. Boil meat and tripe four to six hours.
A very basic pepper sauce that is great for steaks and other dishes
Soak half an ounce of pulverized gum arabic in half a cupful of cold water for 30 minutes. Dissolve it over hot water.
Add one cupful of powdered sugar and cook until it will spin a thread.
Pour this upon the stiffly beaten whites of two eggs, and when well blended add gradually a pint of boiling cream, a few drops of essence of peppermint and a tiny pinch of baking soda.
Serve while it foams, sprinkled with a little powdered cinnamon.
Unquiet meals make ill digestions.
- William Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors (c. 1592;Q506505on Wikidata)
The original source gave no directions.
Vietnamese Pho Soup is a tea-like, beef based soup with a flavor profile that differentiates it from the traditional Western palette. This recipe is designed to be as easy to make as possible, while simultaneously being as based as possible.
There is no camera for «beginners». It doesn't make any sense to recommend a camera based on skill level at all. Instead, getting into photography should go something like this:
Identify the area / subject matter you're interested in, and just start taking pictures! It doesn't matter if you only have a smartphone that only does auto. The important thing is to start taking pictures. Start gaining experience and get that sense of when something is photo-worthy, and how you want it to look. Start learning about framing and focus and other stuff like that.
Once you've got those basics understood, it's time to learn about how photography works. Get a camera with manual mode. Teach yourself about aperture, shutter speed, and sensitivity, then teach yourself how each of those settings affects the output of your camera. Internalize the effects that each parameter will have on the picture – how will it affect brightness? Noise? Blur? Etc. Start learning to tune your camera's settings for each scene.
Find a camera that can take RAW photos. Learn how to develop those photos. Familiarize yourself with all the factors that go into outputting a finalized image – exposure levels, color balance, sharpening and denoising filters, and so on. Pick a software and learn it.
By this point you should have a thorough understanding of the types of pictures you want to take, how to actually take those pictures with your camera of choice, and how to develop the raw output into a pleasing image. This is the point where you can start looking into specialized equipment and gear that suits the niche you're most interested in – landscape? Architecture? Street? Still-life? Portrait? Event? If you have enough money or you can start making money from photography, then you can start looking at picking out gear that will help you take the photos you want. Pick out a good body (sensor size? ISO? Resolution? Autofocus?) then pick out some lenses (focal length? Aperture?) and you should be able to take all the photos you want.
A good way to use up older red onions and goes great with just about anything.
Wash pickles well and pack in stone crock. Dissolve mustard in some of the vinegar and mix all together and pour over pickles cold. Put on a weight–ready to use in three days.
One level cup of flour, one-half cup of lard, one-half teaspoon salt, one-fourth cup ice cold water, one teaspoon baking powder. Mix salt, baking powder and flour thoroughly, chop in the lard, add water. Use as little flour as possible when rolling out. This makes a light, crisp, flaky and delicious pie crust.
Mix the crust with tact and velvet gloves, using no sarcasm, especially with the upper crust. Upper crusts must be handled with extreme care for they quickly sour if manipulated roughly.
Popular central asian and middle eastern dish. High in nutrition, designed to be prepared and eaten communally.
(Bananas can be used instead of pineapples).
Make in two layers and when ready to serve put grated pineapple on each layer of cake. Whip half a pint of cream, sweeten to taste and put over pineapples.
Pare and shred a ripe pineapple, add one cup of sugar and let stand for several hours. Drain off one cup of the juice, boil it with three-quarters of a cup of sugar for 10 minutes. Add slowly to well beaten yolks of four eggs, and cook in a double boiler, stirring all the time, until the mixture will coat the spoon. Remove from the fire and beat until cold. Then add two tablespoons of lemon juice and two cups of cream whipped to a stiff froth.
Pack in a mold, cover tightly and surround with ice and salt for four hours.
Cook potatoes with chopped onion. Drain and add pimentos cut fine. Pour white sauce over; stir in cheese; bake in a moderate oven.
Take a cupful of the syrup from a jar of raspberry preserves and the same amount of juice from a can of pineapple; add two tablespoons of lemon juice and a syrup made by boiling together a pint of water and a cupful of sugar. When cold add four tablespoons of orange juice and freeze. When stiff, open the freezer and add the white of an egg, beaten stiff with a teaspoon of powdered sugar.
Here is a simple pizza dough recipe. Basically you use a 2/1 ratio of flour/liquid. If you use other flour like rye, you may need more liquid.
Put suet through meat grinder or food chopper, fine blade. Sift flour, salt, baking powder and rub suet into flour well. Beat eggs lightly, add milk and stir into mixture. Butter mold and fill 3/4 full and steam three hours. This quantity makes two good sized puddings.
It is very nice made without the eggs and using one-half the quantity. Fill a deep pudding dish or pan with fruit, apples or peaches, dropping the suet pudding over the fruit in large spoonsfull and steam 1 1/2 hours.
Free suet from strings and chop fine. Seed raisins, chop fine and dredge with flour. Cream suet and sugar; beat in the yolks when whipped smooth and light; next put in milk; then flour and crumbs alternately with beaten whites; then brandy and spice, and lastly the fruit well dredged with flour. Mix all thoroughly. Take well buttered bowls filled to the top with the mixture and steam five hours. (This pudding will keep a long time).
When cold cover with cheesecloth and tie with cord around the rim of the bowl. Steam again one hour before using. Use wine or brandy sauce. When on the table pour a little brandy or rum over the top of the pudding and set fire to it. This adds much to the flavor.
Take an iron kettle, put in two quarts water with one tablespoon salt. Heat and before boiling, slowly pour in your corn meal, stirring continuously until you have it very stiff. Put on lid and let boil for an hour or more. Turn out in a pan and keep warm. Later this is turned out on a platter for the table.
Cut it in pieces of about an inch wide for each plate and on this the following sauce is added with a teaspoon Parmesan cheese added to each piece.
Brown a good sized onion in two tablespoons butter, add ½ clove of garlic, about 5 pieces of dried mushroom, being well soaked in water (use the water also) dissolve a little extract of beef, pouring that into this with a little more water, salt and some paprika-a pinch of sugar and1/3 teaspoon vinegar.
A little flour to make a nice gravy. This makes it very palatable.
It takes about ten minutes to cook.
Serve in gravy bowl-a spoonful on each piece of Polenta. Added to that the grated cheese, is all that is needed for a whole meal. Apple sauce should be served with this dish.
Man doth not live by bread alone.
- Owen Meredith (pseudonym used by Robert Bulwer-Lytton; 1831 - 1891;Q335493on Wikidata).
Poppers (also called by their actual name of
amyl nitrate and known by other names like animal
nitrate, amyls; Q106454435
on Wikidata) is the name given to a generic
type of party drug that one can inhale via the nose (or mouth, but
making sure not to drink the liquid as it can seriously burn you) that
will give the user a short-lived rush.
They are a bit generic, as there are hundreds of brands all being called «poppers», like how there are hundreds of cola brands.
The feeling of taking poppers can feel like just getting off a roller-coaster, the thrill not yet wearing off. Taking them also can make you feel dizzy in the head and blur your vision a little.
Poppers are sold in sex shops as well as online, being officially sold as «room deodorizers», VHS head cleaner, leather cleaner, and other innocent labels like that, but in reality, no-one is actually buying them for the sake of cleaning their tape heads. Due to them being sold as a product not for human consumption, they live in a legal loophole in many places.
The rush that comes with poppers can make the feeling of sex even more intense and fun, they also work as a vasodilation (meaning they widen the blood vessels), which lowers blood pressure and relaxes and smooth muscle, helping with anal sex.
Because of this, poppers are an open secret in queer communities, especially with gay men. Of course, you don't have to be a gay man to take poppers, but it appears that the biggest market for buyers of this drug belongs to that group.
Poppers are not for everyone. If you have a weak heart, you probably shouldn't take them, and in fact the US government seems to warn against them as they are losers who don't know what a good time is. But for those who do want to start taking them, here are some no-bullshit tips.
Of course, these are just a few little tips; obviously, this is simply a guide by someone, and you know best for your body, but just try and have fun and experiment with things a little. Doing poppers with a partner is also super fun as well, but remember safety and to practice safe sex. As said near the top, poppers are a bit of a gay man thing, and even way after the 80s, the risk of things like HIV and STDs is still a thing, so using condoms and having tests done is still something you should aim for, even if you don't intend to mix them with drugs.
It goes without saying that this is not meant to be a replacement for medical advice and is only just an observation observed by someone over the years.
Thinly minced and non-lean mince is preferred. Spices shall be left to the choice of the cook, if at all desired. Mince should be broken up well before cooking.
This recipe makes a lot and is super easy. A whole roast usually makes enough for a few meals (depending on how many people will be eating it). Leftovers can be refrigerated for 4-5 days.
Bitoque (pronounced bee-tok) is a traditional quintessential Portuguese dish, its name comes from being cooked in wood burning ovens in the oil mills. Good in combination with red wine, beer sauce that I am going to also provide the ingredients and directions on how to do, rice, french fries and a salad.
A simple and tasty curry that is easy to customise.
Two soup plates of grated potatoes which have been boiled in the skins the day before. Add four tablespoons flour or bread crumbs, a little nutmeg and salt, one-half cup of melted butter and the yolks of four eggs and one cupful croutons (fried bread–in butter–cut into small cubes).
Mix together, then add the beaten whites of the eggs. Mix well and form into balls, then boil in boiling salt water about fifteen or twenty minutes. Serve with bacon cut into small squares on top.
To be eaten with stewed dried fruits cooked together–prunes, apricots, apples.
This recipe was written by Mrs. Raymond Robins.
Pare sweet or white potatoes and boil as for mashed potatoes. When done and mashed add a good lump of butter and season well; add a little hot milk, form into croquettes and dip into beaten egg, then in bread or cracker crumbs. Cook in deep fat. Garnish with parsley.
Let the sky rain potatoes.
- Shakespeare (1564 - 1616;Q692on Wikidata) from The Merry Wives of Windsor (1602).
To be served with German Pot Roast or Beef a la mode.
Mix eggs with grated raw potatoes, add bread crumbs and butter, lastly grated boiled potatoes and salt, mix flour with the hands while forming dumplings size of large egg, drop at once into boiling salted water.
Boil twenty minutes, drain, lay on platter and sprinkle with fried chopped onions, bread crumbs browned in butter.
Scrape the potatoes into cold water to keep from discoloring. Put butter and lard in skillet, and brown carefully, add potato squeezed out of the water also onion, cook slowly and then beat the eggs and add.
When done on one side put a plate over the skillet and turn the omelet, now slip in the pan and brown the other side. Serve at once.
Peel and grate 8 large potatoes, one onion, mix at once with two or three eggs (before potatoes have time to discolor). Have spider very hot with plenty of hot fat.
Drop into flat cakes 3 in. in diameter, fry crisp brown on one side then turn and fry second side. Serve immediately with apple sauce or stewed fruit of any kind.
Purée may be used as a main course, or as a side dish: for example, it is very good with beans. Ingredients below ar calculated for the main course, they should be halved for the side dish.
Boil potatoes until soft; pare and let cool, then slice very thin; add finely cut onions and diluted vinegar enough to mix well; add salt, pepper and sugar, some celery cut fine and lastly olive oil.
Serenely full, the epicure would say Fate cannot harm me, I have dined today.
- Sidney Smith (1764 - 1840;Q1389040on Wikidata).
Serves many people or one person for many days.
Cut cold boiled potatoes into tiny dice of uniform size. Put two great spoonfuls of butter into the frying pan and fry two sliced onions in this for three minutes. With a skimmer remove the onions and turn the potatoes into the hissing butter. Toss and turn with a fork, that the dice may not become brown. When hot, add a teaspoon of finely chopped parsley and cook a minute longer. Remove the potatoes from the pan with a perforated spoon, that the fat may drip from them. Serve very hot.
Cut cold boiled potatoes into cubes and make a cream dressing. Butter the baking dish, put in a layer of potatoes and then a layer of the dressing, then sprinkle with a little parmesan cheese; now a layer of potatoes and then a layer of dressing and then cheese, put in oven and allow them to brown.
Hints:-Secret of fine pound cake is in the mixing, much beating being essential.
One-half the recipe serves fifteen persons amply.
A paler yellow cake can be had by substituting the whites of two eggs for every yolk discarded.
In the full recipe not more than four yolks should be discarded.
A very little lemon combined with vanilla or almond, improves the flavor of the cake.
Bake, if possible, in an old-fashioned tin pan with a center tube.
Cream butter and sugar to finest possible consistency. Add ¼ of the flour and beat well. Have eggs beaten to a froth. Add a few tablespoons at a time and beat thoroughly after each addition of egg. When eggs are all in, add balance of flour and flavoring and beat.
Bake in a slow oven one and one-half hours.
Famous Russian cutlet recipe, favoured by Nicholas I. Despite what seems to be a massive amount of butter required, they're rather light, yet creamy.
One-half pound of prunes, three tablespoons of powdered sugar, four eggs, a small teaspoon of vanilla. Beat the yolks of the eggs and the sugar to a cream, add the vanilla and mix them with the prunes. The prunes should first be stewed and drained, the stones removed, and each prune cut into four pieces. When ready to serve, fold in lightly the stiffly whipped whites of the eggs, having added a dash of salt to the whites before whipping.
Turn it into a pudding dish and bake in a moderate oven for 20 minutes. Serve very hot directly it is taken from the oven.
Peel chestnuts and boil until skin can be removed. Boil prunes and raisins together until soft, add chestnuts, sugar, salt, cloves and butter, when well cooked thicken with flour and vinegar stirred together.
Hire me twenty cooks.
- William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet (pre-1597;Q83186on Wikidata).
A basic puff pastry recipe that can replace any recipe that calls for puff pastry.
Serve it up hot. This is a side dish at dinner.
The word «python» refers to a family of large nonvenomous snakes, as well as a computer programming language.
Python, the programming language, is a general purpose high-level interpreted language that's relatively easy to learn, friendly to beginners, while also staying a powerful language popular among professionals.
Python was created by a Dutch programmer Guido van Rossum, circa 1989, as a successor to the language ABC, and is named after Monty Python, a famous British comedy group.
An example of a Python program is:
N = 3
p = [chr(ord('a') + i) for i in range(N)]
def printPermutations(n):
if n < N - 1:
for i in range(n,N):
p[n], p[i] = p[i], p[n] # swap
printPermutations(n + 1)
p[n], p[i] = p[i], p[n] # swap back
else:
print("".join(p))
printPermutations(0)While Hello World! in Python would look something like
this:
print("Hello, World!")«Quark» is a type of fresh dairy product. It's usually translated as curd cheese or cottage cheese.
A quick and easy low-prep meal, able to be taken anywhere.
I recommend serving it with a glass of white wine.
A quick breakfast spaghetti recipe that covers a healthy amount of carbs, fat, and spices. Eggs and/or bacon can be added to cover some protein, you should cook those while the boiler is cooking the spaghetti for time efficiency.
Cream one-fourth of a cupful of butter, three-fourths of a cupful of sugar, one egg; add one cupful of milk, two and one-half cupfuls of flour in which two teaspoons of baking powder have been sifted. Beat smooth, then add as many raisins as desired and bake in two pie tins. When the top has begun to crust over, brush with melted butter and sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon. Bake a golden brown.
Beat the eggs very light; then gradually mix in the milk, flour and salt; add melted butter.
Pour into the waffle iron and bake at once.
Grease irons well and do not put in too much batter.
This recipe is known by Italian-Americans as «Sunday Gravy», which originated from the Southern Italian dish Ragu Napoletano. This is my variation of my family's version which was passed down 3 generations to me.
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Soak yeast in a little warm water and some of the milk 10 minutes, then set a sponge and let it stand about 1 hour (before breakfast); cream butter; add sugar and beat thoroughly; beat the 4 eggs light and add gradually to creamed butter and sugar; now add the other 1/2 pint of milk.
Beat well and add the raisins, dredge with a little flour; now add sponge and beat all thoroughly for 1/2 hour till it drops from the spoon a little thicker than a sweet cake.
Grease your pan with butter and take the split almonds and stick them on the side of the pan. Bake nearly an hour.
This makes 2 small cakes or one large one. Very fine German Coffee Cake. You should use a pan with a tube in the center.
Salt, cinnamon, lard and nutmeg to taste. Steam three hours. Serve with whipped cream or sauce.
My great-grandma's red sauce. All purpose: good for pastas, lasagnas, subs, etc.
One of my favorite dishes that works either as an appetizer or side dish is refried beans. A classic from Mexican cuisine, that is best eaten with some totopos, or tortilla chips.
As usual, the ingredients here are for about two adult portions:
Originally published at https://www.yaroslavps.com/food/refried-beans/
Cut the tomatoes and onions and boil one hour with the sugar, vinegar and salt; at the end of an hour put it through a sieve; now return to the stove and add your red peppers, cut very fine, and cook one more hour. Have it about the consistency of thick cream and bottle hot. Very fine for cold meats, fish, etc.
Cut five pounds rhubarb into inch pieces without peeling. Add one pound figs, four pounds sugar, the grated yellow rind and juice of one lemon and let stand all night. In the morning simmer for an hour. Nut meats may be added if desired.
There are a number of ways to make rice:
See also:
It should be eaten cold, or quite cool.
Cook a cup of rice in rapidly boiling, salted water until almost ready for the table. Drain, mix with a pint of white sauce, pour into a baking dish, cover with slices of cheese, and bake in a moderate oven twenty minutes.
The white sauce may also be flavored with cheese.
Prepare rice as above, and mingle with white sauce; add half a cup of chopped nuts–pecans or hickory nuts preferred; sprinkle a few chopped nuts over surface, and brown in quick oven.
This recipe was written by Mrs. Samuel Semple, President of the State Federation of Pennsylvania Women.
The ricotta is an Italian cheese made by cooking the whey (liquid byproduct of the cheese production), by cooking it at an high temperature (80-90°C), hence the name «ricotta», which means «cooked again». Even though it's typically made from the whey, you can make it directly from the milk as well.
Pour the milk (and/or whey) and the salt into a pot, stir it well, and heat it up to 80°C. Once the temperature has been reached, add the citric acid (or lemon juice) and stir well. You should already see the citric acid react with the milk/whey. Heat it up to 90°C Pour the ricotta in the cheesecloth and let the whey drip. Move the ricotta into the cheese recipient. Store in the fridge.
A quick and easy filling for lasagna based on ricotta
Risengrød is part of the Nordic Christmas tradition as a dinner dish. Rice boiled with milk and a little sugar to form porridge. It is served warm with butter and cinnamon mixed with sugar.
Cut up chicken and cook in water as for stewing, seasoning to taste. When almost done add mushrooms and cook a little longer. Now put a large lump of butter in a pan and after washing the rice in several waters, dry on a clean napkin, and add to butter, stirring constantly. Do not allow it to darken. Cook about ten minutes and remove from fire. Take baking dish and put the rice in bottom. Now sprinkle generously with parmesan cheese. Cut chicken up and remove all bones, pour over rice and cook until dry, adding gravy from time to time.
This can be eaten hot or cold.
Der Mensch ist was er iszt [sic].
- German.
Q76422 on
Wikidata).The only way in the world to serve a canvas-back or a mallard, or a sprig, or even the toothsome teal, is as follows: The plucked bird should be stuffed with a tight handful of plain raw celery and, in a piping oven, roasted variously 8, 9, 10, or even 11 minutes, according to size of bird and heat of oven. The blood-rare breast is carved with the leg and the carcass then thoroughly squeezed in a press. The resultant liquid is seasoned with salt, pepper, lemon and paprika, and poured hot over the meat. This method of roasting insures the maximum tenderness and flavor in the bird. The longer the wild duck is roasted, the dryer and tougher it becomes.
Hoping that you may find the foregoing useful for your collection, and with best wishes for the success of your book.
Sincerely yours,
JACK LONDON.
This recipe was written by Jack London of Glen Ellen, California
(also known as John Griffith London (né Chaney; 1876 - 1916); Q45765 on
Wikidata). London was an American novelist,
journalist, activist and a member of the Socialist Labor Party since
April 1896.
How to roast chicken breast with a «leave-in» probe thermometer. The thermometer ensures the chicken comes out juicy and delicious.
Used two serving sizes for this Rösti
This swiss classic works great together with fried eggs and steamed peas or spinach. Can be useful to get rid of leftover potatoes from the day before.
Take red roses, remove all the whites at the bottom. Take three times their weight in sugar, put a pint of water to a pint of roses, skin well, shred the roses a little before you put them into the water, and cover them, and when the leaves are tender, put in the sugar.
Keep stirring lest they burn and the syrup be consumed.
A tasty sauce that goes well with salads or rice. Recipe taken from a Russian monastery.
A good breakfast toast is made by dipping the slices of bread in a pint of milk to which a beaten egg and a pinch of salt are added, and frying.
Mix well and form into croquettes. Roll in egg and cracker crumbs and fry in deep fat.
Makes about 2 cups (475mL). Refrigerate leftovers
Brown a thick slice from a round of beef in a hot pan and season carefully, adding water to make a pan gravy; add also a pint of tomato juice and onion juice to taste; cover and simmer gently for at least an hour and a half; turn the meat frequently, keeping the gravy in sufficient quantity to insure that the meat shall be thoroughly moist and thoroughly seasoned.
When served, it should be, if carefully done, very tender. The gravy may be thickened or not, according to individual taste.
This recipe was made by Mrs. Samuel Semple of Brookville, Pennsylvania.
There are a number of recipes for making icing on the MDKwiki:
All taken from The Suffrage Cook Book (1915).
One pound of granulated sugar, three-quarters of a pound of butter, one pound of flour, one pound of almonds blanched and split, and three eggs. Cream butter and sugar till very light, add the yolks of the three eggs and the whites of two. Add the flour; roll on the board and cut in oblong or diamond shapes. Beat the white of the remaining egg and bake.
Milk enough to make a stiff dough. Roll very thin, cut out and brush over with beaten egg and milk mixed together. Put two or three blanched almonds on each tart and dust with cinnamon and sugar.
Bake in moderate oven.
Can be served with a Spicy Yogurt Sauce as Tapas or Hors D'Oeuvres.
Sardines, one hard boiled egg, brown bread, parsley. Cut the brown bread into strips and butter them. Remove the skin and the bones from the sardines and lay one fish on each finger of the bread. Chop the white of the egg into fine pieces and rub the yolk through a strainer. Chop the parsley very fine and decorate each sardine with layers of the white, the yolk and the chopped parsley. Season with pepper and salt.
Saturn (Q193 on Wikidata) is the sixth planet from the Sun, and the second-largest planet in our solar system.
Like fellow gas giant Jupiter, Saturn is a massive ball made mostly of hydrogen and helium. Saturn is not the only planet to have rings, but none are as spectacular or as complex as Saturn's. Saturn also has dozens of moons.
From the jets of water that spray from Saturn's moon Enceladus to the methane lakes on smoggy Titan, the Saturn system is a rich source of scientific discovery and still holds many mysteries.
The farthest planet from Earth discovered by the unaided human eye, Saturn has been known since ancient times. The planet is named for the Roman god of agriculture and wealth, who was also the father of Jupiter.
Saturn's environment is not conducive to life as we know it. The temperatures, pressures, and materials that characterize this planet are most likely too extreme and volatile for organisms to adapt to.
While planet Saturn is an unlikely place for living things to take hold, the same is not true of some of its many moons. Satellites like Enceladus and Titan, home to internal oceans, could possibly support life.
With an equatorial diameter of about 20,500 kilometers, Saturn is 9 times wider than Earth. If Earth were the size of a nickel, Saturn would be about as big as a volleyball.
From an average distance of 1.4 billion kilometers, Saturn is 9.5 astronomical units away from the Sun. One astronomical unit (abbreviated as AU), is the distance from the Sun to Earth. From this distance, it takes sunlight 80 minutes to travel from the Sun to Saturn.
Saturn has the second-shortest day in the solar system. One day on Saturn takes only 10.7 hours (the time it takes for Saturn to rotate or spin around once), and Saturn makes a complete orbit around the Sun (a year in Saturnian time) in about 29.4 Earth years (10,756 Earth days).
Its axis is tilted by 26.73 degrees with respect to its orbit around the Sun, which is similar to Earth's 23.5-degree tilt. This means that, like Earth, Saturn experiences seasons.
Saturn is home to a vast array of intriguing and unique worlds. From the haze-shrouded surface of Titan to crater-riddled Phoebe, each of Saturn's moons tells another piece of the story surrounding the Saturn system. As of March 2025, Saturn had 274 confirmed moons in its orbit, far more than any other planet in our solar system, with other Saturnian satellites continually awaiting confirmation of their discovery and official naming by the International Astronomical Union (IAU).
Saturn's rings are thought to be pieces of comets, asteroids, or shattered moons that broke up before they reached the planet, torn apart by Saturn's powerful gravity. They are made of billions of small chunks of ice and rock coated with other materials such as dust. The ring particles mostly range from tiny, dust-sized icy grains to chunks as big as a house. A few particles are as large as mountains. The rings would look mostly white if you looked at them from the cloud tops of Saturn, and interestingly, each ring orbits at a different speed around the planet.
Saturn's ring system extends up to 282,000 kilometers from the planet, yet the vertical height is typically about 10 meters in the main rings. Named alphabetically in the order they were discovered, the rings are relatively close to each other, with the exception of a gap measuring 4,700 kilometers in width called the Cassini Division that separates Rings A and B. The main rings are A, B, and C. Rings D, E, F, and G are fainter and more recently discovered.
Starting at Saturn and moving outward, there is the D ring, C ring, B ring, Cassini Division, A ring, F ring, G ring, and finally, the E ring. Much farther out, there is the very faint Phoebe ring in the orbit of Saturn's moon Phoebe.
Saturn took shape when the rest of the solar system formed about 4.5 billion years ago when gravity pulled swirling gas and dust in to become this gas giant. About 4 billion years ago, Saturn settled into its current position in the outer solar system, where it is the sixth planet from the Sun. Like Jupiter, Saturn is mostly made of hydrogen and helium, the same two main components that make up the Sun.
Like Jupiter, Saturn is made mostly of hydrogen and helium. At Saturn's center is a dense core of metals like iron and nickel surrounded by rocky material and other compounds solidified by intense pressure and heat. It is enveloped by liquid metallic hydrogen inside a layer of liquid hydrogen -similar to Jupiter's core but considerably smaller.
It's hard to imagine, but Saturn is the only planet in our solar system with an average density that is less than water. The giant gas planet could float in a bathtub if such a colossal thing existed.
As a gas giant, Saturn doesn't have a true surface. The planet is mostly swirling gases and liquids deeper down. While a spacecraft would have nowhere to land on Saturn, it wouldn't be able to fly through unscathed either. The extreme pressures and temperatures deep inside the planet would crush, melt, and vaporize any spacecraft trying to fly into the planet.
Saturn is blanketed with clouds that appear as faint stripes, jet streams, and storms. The planet is many different shades of yellow, brown, and gray.
Winds in the upper atmosphere reach 500 meters per second in the equatorial region. In contrast, the strongest hurricane-force winds on Earth top out at about 110 meters per second. And the pressure - the same kind you feel when you dive deep underwater - is so powerful it squeezes gas into a liquid.
Saturn's north pole has an interesting atmospheric feature - a six-sided jet stream. This hexagon-shaped pattern was first noticed in images from the Voyager I spacecraft and has been more closely observed by the Cassini spacecraft since. Spanning about 30,000 kilometers across, the hexagon is a wavy jet stream of about 322 kilometers per hour with a massive, rotating storm at the center. There is no weather feature like it anywhere else in the solar system.
Saturn's magnetic field is smaller than Jupiter's but still 578 times as powerful as Earth's. Saturn, the rings, and many of the satellites lie totally within Saturn's enormous magnetosphere, the region of space in which the behavior of electrically charged particles is influenced more by Saturn's magnetic field than by the solar wind.
Aurorae occur when charged particles spiral into a planet's atmosphere along magnetic field lines. On Earth, these charged particles come from the solar wind. Cassini showed that at least some of Saturn's aurorae are like Jupiter's and are largely unaffected by the solar wind. Instead, these aurorae are caused by a combination of particles ejected from Saturn's moons and Saturn's magnetic field's rapid rotation rate. But these «non-solar-originating» aurorae are not completely understood yet.
Sauerkraut is a based lacto-fermented food that is healthy and has a long shelf live.
Take two pounds spring lamb and braise light with butter size of a walnut. Add 3 cups boiling water, 3 onions, salt and pepper, and let simmer slowly for 1/2 hour. Then add six peeled raw potatoes and small head of young cabbage (cut in eighths) cover closely and allow at least an hour's slow boiling. This can be made on the stove, in the oven, or in fireless cooker.
The flavor of this dish can be varied by the addition of two or three tomatoes.
Fry until crisp a quarter pound of salt pork. Put into the pan with it a medium-sized onion, minced fine and brown. All this to three cupfuls of boiled rice; mix in two green peppers seeded and chopped, and a cupful of tomato sauce. Season all to taste with salt and pepper, turn into a buttered baking dish, sprinkle with fine breadcrumbs and small pieces of butter. Brown.
This is a recipe for a typical Austrian carb and protein bomber. This is traditionally made with ham or smoked rolled roast. This is good if you want to feed a family or if you just want to be lazy and eat the same thing for 3 or 4 days.
Serve topped with cheese on top of salad (with Mustard, Jam, Salt, 1 Vinegar, 4 Oil-Vinegrette)
There you have it, an idiot-proof carb and protein bomber that should taste reasonably well. Besides browning the noodles this is really just throwing stuff into a baking pan. This is the kind of dish that tastes better the next day so it's ideal for making on a Sunday and eating for the next 3 or 4 days. Just reheat in oven or pan (add little water).
Original Austrian breaded meat, pan-fried in butter.
A hearty and cheap stew, that's easy to make and is my go to dish to make and freeze on weeknights. This dish is really flexible and goes with virtually any vegetables you've got in your cupboard. Originated around Stoke and Liverpool as Lobscouse and later split into the dishes Lobby and Scouse.
1 cup of butter--Judges 5 chap. 25 Verse
3 1/2 " " flour--1 Kings 4 " 22 "
3 " " sugar--Jeremiah 6 " 20 "
2 " " raisins--1 Sam'l 30 " 12 "
2 " " figs--1 Sam'l 30 " 12 "
1 " " water--Genesis 24 " 17 "
1 " " almond--Genesis 43 " 11 "
6 eggs--Isaiah 10 " 14 "
1 tablespoon of Honey--Exodus 33 " 3 "
A pinch of salt--Leviticus 2 " 13 "
Spices to taste--1 Kings 10 " 10 "Follow Solomon's advice for making good boys, and you will have a good cake.
Proverbs: 23 Ch. 14 Verse.
The above text was taken from 1915's The Suffrage Cook Book, as compiled by Mrs. L. O. Kleber that features a number of wholesome recipes, as written by contemporary suffragettes and allies - the original text, for some reason, has a Bible verse that has a number of translations:
What this has to do with a cooking book is up to you to decide.
For sea foam candy cook three cupfuls of light brown sugar, a cupful of water and a tablespoon of vinegar until the syrup forms a hard ball when dropped into cold water. Pour it slowly over the stiffly beaten whites of two eggs, beating continually until the candy is stiff enough to hold its shape. Then work in half a cupful of chopped nuts and half a teaspoon of vanilla. Drop in small pieces on waxed paper.
This is a simple outline of how to cook a creamy seafood pasta with white wine butter sauce.
Shakshouka is a dish of eggs poached in a sauce of tomatoes, olive oil, peppers, onion and garlic, and commonly spiced with cumin, paprika, cayenne pepper, and nutmeg. This recipe is a quick and simple version for a delicious breakfast.
Shit (also poop, feces, excrement, poopoo, 💩; Q519 on Wikidata) is what comes out of your arse when you
go to the toilet. Oh, how wonderful!
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was seemly obsessed with the stuff, making a reference to ass eating in one of his songs («Difficile lectu» with the lyrics «Leck du mich im Arsch», you don't need to know German to read that) as well as strangest of all, sending a letter to his cousin and possible love-interest Maria Anna Thekla Mozart with this as the contents:
Well, I wish you good night, but first,
Shit in your bed and make it burst.
Sleep soundly, my love
Into your mouth your arse you'll shove.
What a guy.
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""----"" "-..|Shortcrust pastry is the base recipe for many baked sweets. The ingredients below are roughly enough for an 8 slices crostata, but servings are reduced if the dough is used alone (e. g. for biscuits).
This is a basic recipe from which many variants can be created. For example, you could add powedered cocoa (4 tsp), honey (4 tsp), or grated chocolate (80 g). You may also use mashed fruit, but since it contains much water you would then have to add flour to restore the original consistency of the dough.
Warm up your stock with raw shrimp shells to infuse additional flavour, if desired. Serve dish with french bread and your favourite beer.
This recipe is derived from Smokin' & Grillin' wit AB – YouTube
Shrimp fettuccine alfredo is one of the best tasting and low effort dishes. The recipe i give below yields an alfredo sauce that is a bit on the thicker side. If you want a thinner sauce, adding a touch or two more milk will thin out the sauce. This is a great meal for 3-4 people or you can eat one serving and freeze the rest for 2-3 more dinners.
The dish has two main parts–the Pasta and the Alfredo Sauce. In order that you can have both finish about the same time, I have given estimates on the individual cook times.
Dissolve flour in cream, add shrimps, rice, pepper (chopped), pour in cream, add butter, add condiments, add just before serving 1 wineglass sherry or Madeira.
This recipe was written by Helen Ring Robinson (1878 - 1923; Q5703062
on Wikidata) of Denver, Colorado. Robinson was
an American suffragist, writer, and the first woman
to serve as a state senator in the United States and the first in the
Colorado State Senate
An easy chicken curry recipe which scales very well (double it, triple it, etc.). Best served with rice.
Servings: 3-4
Spices - 1 ½ tsp Coriander - 1 tsp Cumin - ½ tsp Turmeric - ½ tsp Ground Fennel Seeds - ½ tsp Cinnamon - ½ tsp Black Pepper - ½ tsp Ginger - ¼ tsp Mustard - ¼ tsp Ground Cloves - Sriracha Sauce (optional)
Main Ingredients - ¼ cup (½ stick) Butter - 1 large Onion - 4 cloves Garlic - 2-3 cups Chicken Broth - 2-3 cups Crushed or Pureed Tomatoes - 1 ½ lbs Boneless Skinless Chicken Breasts
This is a simple and well known recipe. It goes by many names and this recipe is a starting point for many sauces, eg ‘1000 island sauce'.
You'll need a good-sized lidded pot that can go in the oven for this. But if you don't have that then you can use a large roasting tray with sides and cover it with foil, sealing it as best you can. It's an excellent celebration or Sunday meal.
Turkey, smoked on a charcoal grill
Dissolve soda in couple teaspoonfuls hot water.
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The Solar System (Q544 on Wikidata) is a collective of 8 planets, forming
what could be said as a type of neighborhood.
It is made up of:
Soleier are a german pub dish. They are typically enjoyed between two beers.
There are a number of recipes on how to make soups on the MDKwiki:
Cut into small pieces one pound of beef or mutton or a part of both. Boil it gently in two quarts of water. Take off the scum and when reduced to a pint, strain it and season with a little salt. Give one teacupful at a time.
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If you've never made your own sourdough bread, it can be intimidating! But I believe it is absolutely worth the time and effort. You can look up videos to explain some of the methods listed, such as the stretch and fold, or different ways to shape your loaf. Fermenting grains has been a tradition of home cooking for millennia, and an art only lost in recent years. Fermenting grains has numerous health benefits, is much easier to digest, and even contains natural preservatives. You can get a sourdough starter from any bakery in your area, or make your own from scratch! Also, if you don't have a scale, get one!
This recipe contains instructions for sourdough starter needed for all sourdough breads. The starter can be done with either wheat flour or rye flour for rye breads. Prefer organic flours as they contain most wild yeasts.
This is Southern (American) Style Biscuits.
The Soviet Union (Russian: Советский Союз), officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Союз Советских Социалистических Республик (СССР) (USSR), was a country located within much of Eurasia from 1922 until its dissolution in 1991.
Mostly temperate to arctic continental; winters vary from cool along Black Sea to frigid in Siberia; summers vary from hot in southern deserts to cool along Arctic coast.
Behind a red background, in the top left in just yellow, lives a five-pointed star, under this is a hammer and sickle - a communist symbol that represents unity between workers and peasants.
There is no emoji for this flag;
🇷🇺 exists, but this is for Russia.
When being given a country code top-level domain name, the Soviet
Union was to get a .ussr domain, but after Petri Ojala, a
19-year-old Finnish student, suggested .su, this is what
stuck.
As introduced on 1990-09-19 - .su is the name of the
country code top-level domain for the USSR (https://example.su) - despite this, 15
months later the formal dissolution (1991-12-26) took place. Even after
this, it is possible for Russians to buy a .su domain name
(as well as .ru and .рф), with, as of 2025,
111,695 registered domains.
Some or all of the text was taken from the CIA World Factbook (source), a work by the federal government of the the United States - all work by the US government lacks copyright.
Due to this using text that was written by the US government, please be aware that might not only be US-centric, but also have a pro-USA agenda.
Boil spaghetti twenty-five minutes in salt water, drain, and run cold water over it to separate.
While the spaghetti is boiling make sauce as follows: put the butter in the skillet and when hot put in the onion and let brown. Then add the tomatoes, meat, water, salt, pepper, sugar and cook thoroughly for one and one-half hours. Then add flour mixed with a little water; thicken to the consistency of cream; strain.
Take baking dish and place a layer of spaghetti, then a layer of sauce, then sprinkle this with the cheese, continue until the pan is filled, allowing cheese to be on the top.
Bake one-half hour in a moderate oven.
Ignore the fact that those in the photo are pennette and not spaghetti, that's all I had that day.
Easy and delicious italian dish. Spaghetti alla puttanesca entice you for the savory sauce that surrounds them: peeled tomatoes, capers, «Gaeta» olives, and anchovy fillets give these spaghetti a unique taste.
The yolks of three eggs, one and one-half cupfuls of sugar, one cupful of cream, two tablespoons of flour, two-thirds of a cupful of butter, one teaspoon of spice, cloves, cinnamon and nutmeg.
Mix the flour and sugar together, then cream with the butter. Add the yolks of the eggs, beating thoroughly. Next add cream and spices. Use the whites for the frosting.
This is a simple spiced cantaloupe recipe.
A simple sauce that is at almost every sushi bar in the United States.
This is just a basic guide, adapt this recipe to your liking.
A delicious spicy pasta dish, super easy to make. I'm a student and it's relatively cheap for how much food you get. I found it in a newspaper a while back and thought I'd share it with you guys because it's my favourite meal. I also like to drink the excess red wine while cooking which adds to the enjoyment of cooking.
Wash thoroughly, then throw into cold water and bring to boiling point; then add 1/4 teaspoon of soda and boil 5 minutes. Turn into colander, let cold water run over it, drain well, squeezing out water with spoon, then chop very fine; add creamed butter, salt and pepper.
Heat again thoroughly, then serve with hard boiled eggs sliced on top.
Put spinach in double boiler with the butter and water. Let simmer slowly until all the juice has been extracted from the spinach.
Fry the onion and add. Now thicken with the flour blended with the water and strain. Add the milk very hot. Do not place on the fire after the milk has been added.
Half cream instead of milk greatly improves flavor.
Cut from raw roast beef very thin slices. Spread with a dressing made of grated bread crumbs, a beaten egg and seasoned to taste. Roll up and put all on a long skewer and brown in a little hot butter.
Soak 1 1/2 pints of split peas over night; next day add 2 1/4 quarts water and the vegetables, cut fine; also the sugar, salt and pepper and cook slowly three hours; now mash through sieve. If it boils down too much add a little water. After putting through sieve place on stove and add hot milk and cream. If it is not thin enough to suit add more milk.
Stock may be used if same is available.
Clean the squab and dry thoroughly. Cut eggs fine, add parsley, parmesan cheese and seasoning. Now stuff each squab with this stuffing, putting a small piece of butter in each bird and sew up.
Place in a baking pan with a lump of butter and brown nicely on all sides. Now add a little water and cover and cook slowly until well done. While they are cooking add little onions and potato balls to the gravy.
Steak Tartare is a dish prepared using raw ground / minced beef and egg yolk. A popular dish in Europe, this recipe is a good stepping stone into the world of raw meats, organs and pates.
There are a number of recipes on how to make a stew on the MDKwiki:
Also:
Cut apples in quarters and immediately put in saucepan and pour over them boiling water just to cover.
Put on lid and boil quickly until tender. Sprinkle sugar over them to taste. But never stir the apples at any time. When sugar is on leave the lid off, let cook about five minutes longer, never stirring.
Ready to serve, hot or cold.
Clean and cut chicken and cover with water; add a couple sprigs of parsley; 1 bayleaf and a small onion. When chicken is almost done add salt and pepper to suit taste.
When chicken is done place in dish or platter and add one half cup cream to the gravy; thicken with a little blended flour and strain over chicken.
Simple chinese inspired sticky porkchops.
I could have called this Orange Chicken but I feel like some people wouldn't classify my recipe that way.
Mashed potatoes in Belgian style
This is a traditional belgian stew made with cheap, though beef cuts, beer and onions. Traditionally eaten with fries and chicory salad.
This dish is best accompanied with toasted bread.
Strawberry Compote (клубничный компот) is a chilled sweet drink that is popular in many post-soviet countries. It is similar to strawberry jam or conserves in taste (less sweet/concentrated flavor), but resembles fruit punch in looks and consistency. It is very easy to adjust this recipe and scale it up/down.
FYI, I suggest using organic strawberries for this (may be on the expensive side), it makes a world of difference in flavor.
An option to add frozen custard.
Sift the dry ingredients together and work in the butter. Mix with enough milk to make a stiff dough which can be rolled as thin as a wafer.
Put one thin layer on a pie-pan and butter lightly; lay another layer on first. Bake eight minutes in a moderate oven.
When cold cut in pieces and split each piece. Place a large tablespoon of crushed, sweetened strawberries between the layers, add the top layer, add more berries, and last of all, a heaping tablespoon of ice cream or frozen custard.
This is American-style stroganoff.
A most delicious relish is made with Roquefort cheese, the size of a walnut, rubbed in with equal quantity of butter, moistened with sherry (lemon juice will serve if sherry be not available), and seasoned with salt, pepper, celery salt, and paprika; then squeezed into the troughs of a dozen slender, succulent sticks of celery. This is a very appropriate prelude to a dinner of roast duck.
This recipe was written by Jack London of Glen Ellen, California
(also known as John Griffith London (né Chaney; 1876 - 1916); Q45765 on
Wikidata). London was an American novelist,
journalist, activist and a member of the Socialist Labor Party since
April 1896.
Wash good sized potatoes. Bake them and cut off tops with a sharp knife, and with a teaspoon scoop out the inside of each potato. Put this in a bowl with two ounces of butter, the yolks of two eggs, salt to taste, pepper and sugar.
Round Squash, Zucchini, or Courguettes can be served as main dish (2 servings per person) or as accompaniment. The amount of squash should be adjusted according to their size. This recipe uses ones the size of a fist.
(Luncheon Dish.)
Boil the sausages ten minutes, then skin and chop fine. Hollow your tomatoes using about ½ cup of the solid parts, chopping fine. Mix all thoroughly then heap into the tomato shells. Put large tablespoon butter in baking pan and bake about 20 minutes in hot oven.
Green peppers and sausages can be omitted if so preferred.
This stuffed tomato served with bread and butter can be used as a first course instead of bouillon and also can be used as a substitute for meat.
The Suckless Wiki (archive save, Git) is the name of a wiki that has been written by ~yehorovye and ~yuzucchii, as it takes heavy influence from the LRS Wiki.
The wiki itself is somewhat small, being made of around 43 unique pages from subjects like computer games such as Rust, Factorio, Gunz: The Duel.
The Suckless Wiki also said some ridiculous things, like how bisexual people are «modern scum», how you should be «apolitical or reactionary» and how you should live on in a countryside house with farmland. Just deeply out-of-touch belifes - it's rich that the page talks about how «modern scum» are people who «lack of independent thought: modern scum are often walking brainstems that lack own criteria and instead look for appealing or fashionable opinions and dogmas instead to blindly follow, they are followers instead of independent thinkers», so that's why we have to keep the status que and be all the same and think the same and sing «I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing».
Still, are there any good pages on the Suckless Wiki? Well, yes, the article on autism is quite well thought out and is a good read; the HolyC (MDKwiki page) programming language page is also good and easy to understand, even for a beginner, although for every one good article, we have a dozen that are only a few lines long, are nothing but hateful, or swoon over the subject to an embarrassing degree.
Mix suet, chopped fine, raisins and sugar, then add flour and baking powder, add milk and steam three hours. Serve with sauce.
(a la Kennedy)
Beat the eggs until light–not stiff; sift sugar 7 times, add to eggs, beating as little as possible. Sift flour 9 times, using only the cupful, discarding the extra flour; then put in the flour the cream of tartar; add this to the eggs and sugar; now the vanilla. Put in angel cake pan with feet. Put in oven with very little heat. Great care must be used in baking this cake to insure success. Light the oven when you commence preparing material. After the first 10 minutes in oven, increase heat and continue to do so every five minutes until the last 4 or 5 minutes, when strong heat must be used. At thirty minutes remove cake and invert pan allowing to stand thus until cold.
This recipe was written by Miss Eliza Kennedy of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The Suffrage Cook Book is the name of an 1915 cookbook compiled by Mrs. L. O. Kleber that features a number of wholesome recipes like carrot soup, stewed chicken, tomato toast, corn bread, and many others, all submitted by suffragettes and their allies, both in the USA and in the UK.
Reading from this book can be moderately interesting - it was made in
1915, only a few years until the United Kingdom allowed women to vote
(Representation of the People Act 1918; see Q3427309
on Wikidata) and a year later in the United
States with the 19th amendment to the Constitution (1919; see Q205304.
The book itself contains feminist quotes - from both men and women -
such as from Irvin S. Cobb;
Women cannot make a worse mess of voting than men have. They will make mistakes at first. That is to be expected. It will not be their fault, but the fault of the men who have withheld from them what they should have had before this. But eventually they will get their bearings, and will use the ballot to better effect than men have used it.
Or by Judge Ben Lindsay:
Do not misunderstand me. Woman suffrage is right. It is just. It is expedient. In all moral issues the woman voters make a loyal legion that cannot be betrayed to the forces of evil[.]
Some of the other names that pop up in the credits are ones like Lady
Constance Lytton (Q6470046
on Wikidata; also known under the pseudonym of
Jane Warton; 1869 - 1923), a British suffragette in favor of prison
reform, votes for women, and birth control - she was imprisoned during
1909, where she was force-fed while on hunger strike, and during this
time, she used a piece of broken enamel from a hairpin to slice the
letter «V» for «Votes for Women» onto her breast.
She would submit Hasty Pudding, her «favourite pudding».
All the recipes, as well as many of the quotes used, have been mirrored on the MDKwiki.
Boil rice in a large quantity of boiling water for 20 minutes; drain and add milk, sugar, lemon rind, currants. Let cook slowly for 15 minutes and remove from fire; beat the yolk of an egg in a little milk and stir in the rice.
Do not set back on the fire. Serve cold.
Beat well; cook in double boiler. When cold and ready to serve, fold in 1/2 pint of whipped cream.
Our Sun (Q525 on Wikidata) is a 4.5 billion-year-old yellow dwarf
star - a hot glowing ball of hydrogen and helium - at the center of our solar system. It's about 150 million
kilometers from Earth and it's our solar system's
only star. Without the Sun's energy, life as we know it could not exist
on our home planet.
From our vantage point on Earth, the Sun may appear like an unchanging source of light and heat in the sky. But the Sun is a dynamic star, constantly changing and sending energy out into space. The science of studying the Sun and its influence throughout the solar system is called heliophysics.
The Sun is the largest object in our solar system. Its diameter is about 1.4 million kilometers. Its gravity holds the solar system together, keeping everything from the biggest planets to the smallest bits of debris in orbit around it.
Even though the Sun is the center of our solar system and essential to our survival, it's only an average star in terms of its size. Stars up to 100 times larger have been found. And many solar systems have more than one star. By studying our Sun, scientists can better understand the workings of distant stars.
The hottest part of the Sun is its core, where temperatures top 15 million °C. The part of the Sun we call its surface - the photosphere - is a relatively cool 5,500 °C. In one of the Sun's biggest mysteries, the Sun's outer atmosphere, the corona, gets hotter the farther it stretches from the surface. The corona reaches up to 2 million °C - much, much hotter than the photosphere.
The Sun has been called by many names. The Latin word for Sun is «sol,» which is the main adjective for all things Sun-related: solar. Helios, the Sun god in ancient Greek mythology, lends his name to many Sun-related terms as well, such as heliosphere and helioseismology.
The Sun could not harbor life as we know it because of its extreme temperatures and radiation. Yet life on Earth is only possible because of the Sun's light and energy.
Our Sun is a medium-sized star with a radius of about 700,000 kilometers. Many stars are much larger - but the Sun is far more massive than our home planet: it would take more than 330,000 Earths to match the mass of the Sun, and it would take 1.3 million Earths to fill the Sun's volume.
The Sun is about 150 million kilometers from Earth. Its nearest stellar neighbor is the Alpha Centauri triple star system: red dwarf star Proxima Centauri is 4.24 light-years away, and Alpha Centauri A and B - two sunlike stars orbiting each other - are 4.37 light-years away. A light-year is the distance light travels in one year, which equals about 9.5 trillion kilometers.
The Sun is located in the Milky Way galaxy in a spiral arm called the Orion Spur that extends outward from the Sagittarius arm.
The Sun orbits the center of the Milky Way, bringing with it the planets, asteroids, comets, and other objects in our solar system. Our solar system is moving with an average velocity of 720,000 kilometers per hour. But even at this speed, it takes about 230 million years for the Sun to make one complete trip around the Milky Way.
The Sun rotates on its axis as it revolves around the galaxy. Its spin has a tilt of 7.25 degrees with respect to the plane of the planets' orbits. Since the Sun is not solid, different parts rotate at different rates. At the equator, the Sun spins around once about every 25 Earth days, but at its poles, the Sun rotates once on its axis every 36 Earth days.
As a star, the Sun doesn't have any moons, but the planets and their moons orbit the Sun.
The Sun would have been surrounded by a disk of gas and dust early in its history when the solar system was first forming, about 4.6 billion years ago. Some of that dust is still around today, in several dust rings that circle the Sun. They trace the orbits of planets, whose gravity tugs dust into place around the Sun.
The Sun formed about 4.6 billion years ago in a giant, spinning cloud of gas and dust called the solar nebula. As the nebula collapsed under its own gravity, it spun faster and flattened into a disk. Most of the nebula's material was pulled toward the center to form our Sun, which accounts for 99.8% of our solar system's mass. Much of the remaining material formed the planets and other objects that now orbit the Sun. (The rest of the leftover gas and dust was blown away by the young Sun's early solar wind.)
Like all stars, our Sun will eventually run out of energy. When it starts to die, the Sun will expand into a red giant star, becoming so large that it will engulf Mercury and Venus, and possibly Earth as well. Scientists predict the Sun is a little less than halfway through its lifetime and will last another 5 billion years or so before it becomes a white dwarf.
The Sun is a huge ball of hydrogen and helium held together by its own gravity.
The Sun has several regions. The interior regions include the core, the radiative zone, and the convection zone. Moving outward - the visible surface or photosphere is next, then the chromosphere, followed by the transition zone, and then the corona - the Sun's expansive outer atmosphere.
Once material leaves the corona at supersonic speeds, it becomes the solar wind, which forms a huge magnetic «bubble» around the Sun, called the heliosphere. The heliosphere extends beyond the orbit of the planets in our solar system. Thus, Earth exists inside the Sun's atmosphere. Outside the heliosphere is interstellar space.
The core is the hottest part of the Sun. Nuclear reactions here - where hydrogen is fused to form helium - power the Sun's heat and light. Temperatures top 15 million °C and it's about 138,000 kilometers thick. The density of the Sun's core is about 150 grams per cubic centimeter (g/cm³). That is approximately 8 times the density of gold (19.3 g/cm³) or 13 times the density of lead (11.3 g/cm³).
Energy from the core is carried outward by radiation. This radiation bounces around the radiative zone, taking about 170,000 years to get from the core to the top of the convection zone. Moving outward, in the convection zone, the temperature drops below 2 million °C. Here, large bubbles of hot plasma (a soup of ionized atoms) move upward toward the photosphere, which is the layer we think of as the Sun's surface.
The Sun doesn't have a solid surface like Earth and the other rocky planets and moons. The part of the Sun commonly called its surface is the photosphere. The word photosphere means «light sphere» - which is apt because this is the layer that emits the most visible light. It's what we see from Earth with our eyes. (Hopefully, it goes without saying - but never look directly at the Sun without protecting your eyes.)
Although we call it the surface, the photosphere is actually the first layer of the solar atmosphere. It's about 250 miles thick, with temperatures reaching about 5,500 degrees Celsius. That's much cooler than the blazing core, but it's still hot enough to make carbon - like diamonds and graphite - not just melt, but boil. Most of the Sun's radiation escapes outward from the photosphere into space.
Above the photosphere is the chromosphere, the transition zone, and the corona. Not all scientists refer to the transition zone as its own region - it is simply the thin layer where the chromosphere rapidly heats and becomes the corona. The photosphere, chromosphere, and corona are all part of the Sun's atmosphere. (The corona is sometimes casually referred to as «the Sun's atmosphere,» but it is actually the Sun's upper atmosphere.)
The Sun's atmosphere is where we see features such as sunspots, coronal holes, and solar flares.
Visible light from these top regions of the Sun is usually too weak to be seen against the brighter photosphere, but during total solar eclipses, when the Moon covers the photosphere, the chromosphere looks like a fine, red rim around the Sun, while the corona forms a beautiful white crown («corona» means crown in Latin and Spanish) with plasma streamers narrowing outward, forming shapes that look like flower petals.
In one of the Sun's biggest mysteries, the corona is much hotter than the layers immediately below it. (Imagine walking away from a bonfire only to get warmer.) The source of coronal heating is a major unsolved puzzle in the study of the Sun.
The Sun generates magnetic fields that extend out into space to form the interplanetary magnetic field - the magnetic field that pervades our solar system. The field is carried through the solar system by the solar wind - a stream of electrically charged gas blowing outward from the Sun in all directions. The vast bubble of space dominated by the Sun's magnetic field is called the heliosphere. Since the Sun rotates, the magnetic field spins out into a large rotating spiral, known as the Parker spiral. This spiral has a shape something like the pattern of water from a rotating garden sprinkler.
The Sun doesn't behave the same way all the time. It goes through phases of high and low activity, which make up the solar cycle. Approximately every 11 years, the Sun's geographic poles change their magnetic polarity - that is, the north and south magnetic poles swap. During this cycle, the Sun's photosphere, chromosphere, and corona change from quiet and calm to violently active.
The height of the Sun's activity cycle, known as solar maximum, is a time of greatly increased solar storm activity. Sunspots, eruptions called solar flares, and coronal mass ejections are common at solar maximum. The latest solar cycle - Solar Cycle 25 - started in December 2019 when solar minimum occurred, according to the Solar Cycle 25 Prediction Panel, an international group of experts co-sponsored by NASA and NOAA. Scientists now expect the Sun's activity to ramp up toward the next predicted maximum in July 2025.
Solar activity can release huge amounts of energy and particles, some of which impact us here on Earth. Much like weather on Earth, conditions in space - known as space weather - are always changing with the Sun's activity. «Space weather» can interfere with satellites, GPS, and radio communications. It also can cripple power grids, and corrode pipelines that carry oil and gas.
The strongest geomagnetic storm on record is the Carrington Event, named for British astronomer Richard Carrington who observed the Sept. 1, 1859, solar flare that triggered the event. Telegraph systems worldwide went haywire. Spark discharges shocked telegraph operators and set their telegraph paper on fire. Just before dawn the next day, skies all over Earth erupted in red, green, and purple auroras - the result of energy and particles from the Sun interacting with Earth's atmosphere. Reportedly, the auroras were so brilliant that newspapers could be read as easily as in daylight. The auroras, or Northern Lights, were visible as far south as Cuba, the Bahamas, Jamaica, El Salvador, and Hawaii.
Another solar flare on March 13, 1989, caused geomagnetic storms that disrupted electric power transmission from the Hydro Québec generating station in Canada, plunging 6 million people into darkness for 9 hours. The 1989 flare also caused power surges that melted power transformers in New Jersey.
In December 2005, X-rays from a solar storm disrupted satellite-to-ground communications and Global Positioning System (GPS) navigation signals for about 10 minutes.
NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center monitors active regions on the Sun and issues watches, warnings, and alerts for hazardous space weather events.
Length of day: 25 Earth days at the equator and 36 Earth days at the poles.
Length of year: The Sun doesn't have a «year,» per se. But the Sun orbits the center of the Milky Way about every 230 million Earth years, bringing the planets, asteroids, comets, and other objects with it.
Star type: G2 V, yellow dwarf main-sequence star
Surface temperature: (Photosphere) 5,500 degrees Celsius
Corona (solar atmosphere) temperature: Up to 2 million °C
A sweet and refreshing milkshake that barely requires any effort to make. You're not required to make it and drink it on Sunday, it was just almost a tradition in my family to make it on the weekends, and it somehow does taste better on a Saturday or Sunday morning.
These are for about 4 glasses or 1 liter:
Basically anything is better consumed fresh, but it is especially the case for this milkshake recipe. If you leave it sitting for more than 10-15 minutes it won't be so delicious anymore.
Originally published at https://www.yaroslavps.com/food/sunday-morning-milkshake/
Work 1 cup of bread dough, 1/4 cup butter and 1/4 cup lard, using the hands. When thoroughly blended, toss on floured board and knead, using enough flour to prevent sticking.
Cut off pieces and roll like bread stick; shape into rings, dip upper surface in blanched almonds that have been chopped and salted. Arrange on buttered baking sheets.
Bake in hot oven until brown.
Tomato and Fig Pickles
One peck of green tomatoes sliced and salted in layers, place in granite boiler over night. In the morning drain off brine and rinse in cold water.
Chop up a pound of figs, add to the tomatoes, cover with vinegar and boil twenty minutes; add 1 pound of seeded raisins, 1 cup of vinegar, 4 cups of sugar, 20 cloves and a few sticks of cinnamon tied in a cheese cloth bag, and cook together slowly for 3/4 of an hour.
This recipe was written by Lucretia L. Blankenburg (1845 - 1937; Q55726002
on Wikidata), an American suffragist, social
activist, civic reformer, writer, and president of the Pennsylvania
Woman Suffrage Association.
A simple, tasty, and healthy carb based snack.
Boil some sweet potatoes and ripe chestnuts separately, adding a little sugar to the water in which the chestnuts are boiled.
Mash all well together and add some cream and butter and beat until light. Then place for a minute or two in the oven to brown.
An Accidental Discovery
I put too much water with my rhubarb and had a whole dishful of beautiful pink juice left over, about a quart. In this I cooked some apples, quartered, and stewed till soft, and just as an experiment added a saucerful of strawberries–also «left over.»
The result, being served, looked and tasted exactly like quince, except that the apple was a little softer.
This recipe was written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860 - 1935; Q287752 on
Wikidata), an American socialist feminist,
humanist, novelist, writer, lecturer, early sociologist.
sysop: /sis´op/, n.
[esp. in the BBS world] The operator (and usually the owner) of a bulletin-board system. A common neophyte mistake on FidoNet is to address a message to sysop in an international FidoNet board, thus sending it to hundreds of sysops around the world.
The Amazing Digital Circus (or TADC
for short; Q121665318
on Wikidata) is an online 3D cartoon made by
Gooseworx and Glitch Productions, running from 2023 until 2026, gaining
a large following.
The series can probably be best described as a mix between the classic I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream short nightmare of a book and that of childhood video games and follows the premise of a number of humans who find themselves trapped inside a virtual playground that is The Amazing Digital Circus, which is meant to be a family-friendly hub area where players can enter into other worlds, ones like the Candy Kingdom, a haunted house... a fast food joint. The ringleader, Caine, is a stand-in for A.M. from I Have No Mouth, but unlike A.M., Caine thinks he knows best for the players but is unaware of the torment and pain he is causing.
For what is an independent series, it has become quite the staple of online animation. Over time, this has become a bit of a double-edged sword, yes, the fandom side can be really spectacular, and yes, there are some wonderful fan songs, countless fan drawings that look really impressive, but alas, content farms on places like mainly YouTube have and will post quickly made slop that is quality over quantity to fill the gap between what can feel like a really long time between episodes (something that you might not personally mind as Glitch Productions is mainly funded via YouTube ads and merchandise sales, depending on who you are).
But still, the storytelling is deeply captivating with its use of strong characters that all stand out in both personality and visual design; this gives the series a strong sense of identity that helps it stand out.
Just know this: The Amazing Digital Circus, despite being a cartoon, is not for children, more so for young adults thanks to its themes of loss, mental health, body issues, and Jax (more on him later).
Truly, The Amazing Digital Circus can put multimillion-dollar companies like Disney to shame when it never really has a moment to have a dull or bad moment on screen. Sincerely, this series stands out as a diamond in all departments.
It's challenging to nail down a moment in this series that one could honestly think is bad. Yes, the first couple of episodes the character models look a bit rough around the edges, but here's the thing: it's the storytelling that matters here, and besides, you know what other shows were rough to start off with? Many damn programs in their early day, both live action and in cartoon. Christ alive, this is a free show that you can watch right now on YouTube; this is a godsend. *Starts to bow at the feet of Goseworx*
| Character name | Right columns | Right columns |
|---|---|---|
| Caine | Alex Rochon | Is the ringleader of the circus; he's an AI designed to have the players get as much enjoyment out of the game as possible, but as he's not human, he fails to know what people actually like; ergo, a lot of his adventures - that are meant to be family-friendly - are actually deeply nightmarish for the members of the circus. Even though he wants to have all the humans enjoy themselves, like AM from I Have No Mouth, he will simply try his best and not allow his captives to escape back into the real world. |
| Jax | Michael Kovach | A bully character who's clearly hiding something deeper and pushes away people who get too close to him. He has a lot of smut made of him, which is appropriate as he is called Jax because he can't stop Jax'ing off all the time. |
| Pomni | Lizzie Freeman | The newest of the group of regulars at the circus, so a lot of her early episodes are her trying to fit in. She's probably the least interesting of the gang, but that's okay, as she is the audience stand-in here. I also think she's kinda hot. |
| Gangle | Marissa Lenti | Is a girl twink, somehow. She's literally just a long ass-ribbon and a comedy/tragedy mask. She's an anime nerd that has a deep friendship with Zooble, with whom she probably also wants to have Zooble put a cigarette out on her. Furthermore, she's unique in the cast in that her face is the comedy and tragedy mask. On the bottom is the tragedy; on top is the comedy. Sadly for her, the top mask is easy to break, making it so she's forced to be in a depressive state. |
| Zooble | Ashley Nichols | Is a cool concept for a character that's actually pulled off quite well, you see; unlike the rest of the cast, Zooble's actual character design changes from episode to episode as they are seemingly unhappy with how they look. YOu could like that this show has a cheeky dysphoria (and by extension, gender dysphoria) reference in a character. |
| Kinger | Sean Chiplock | It's difficult to form that much of a strong opinion on Kinger as he's someone that we don't know all that much about. He knows a lot about coding, and his love of bugs and butterflies comes from Queenie, one of the first set of people to enter the circus. |
| Ragatha | Amanda Hufford | It's fair to say that Ragatha's role in the circus is that of a mother figure who, yes, tries her best, but doesn't always make end up helping the way she thought she would. I do like how, even if she doesn't feel it deep down, she does try her best to put on a smile for the others in the circus. |
Mix well and allow it to boil slowly. Skim but do not stir. Boil until alittle hardens in water. Then add the vanilla and vinegar.
Now pour into buttered tins and when the edges harden, draw lightly to the center. When cool pull until light. When doing so flour the hands lightly.
This short bread recipe uses sesame paste called Tahini, a minimal amount of white sugar is necessary in order to get a crunchy/caramelized short-bread. For better results, a food processor is welcome for this recipe. IMPORTANT Butter is what makes this recipe complicated when cooking the dough, make sure it is not liquid or that the room is not to warm and make sure that the shortbreads are cold before putting in the oven.
Similar to an Italian frittata or Spanish tortilla, Tunisian tajine maadnous is an easy & delicious egg omelette filled with chicken, parsley, and spices.
This is a very traditional simple beverage from Tanzania, a country in East Africa. While I stayed there in Mwanza and Dar es Salaam, they would always have this option for breakfast (or in general).
Delicious Spanish almond cake or famously known as tarta de Santiago. This is a cake from Galicia and it is super easy to make, with only 3 main ingredients. I always feel this type of cake is just perfect for the holiday season.
This lemon meringue pie is a delicious dessert. Ideal for those with a sweet tooth, it is very easy to make and is ready in just half an hour. Enjoy!
Originally being recorded in China since at least 59 BC, people have
been enjoying drinking tea (Q6097 on Wikidata), no other country enjoys tea as much as
Britons, however. Since the 18th century, the UK has
been the world's largest consumer, drinking an average annual per capita
supply of 1.9 kilograms.
Tea is easy to make, so do not be worried about how to prepare it.
If you do not have a kettle, you may substitute it with something else, such as boiling the water over a pan. A microwave may also be used, but this is usually looked down upon as it can have mixed results.
You can also add sugar if you wish to make it sweet; either way, once you have done (or have not done) this, stir the tea with a spoon so that it all goes into the hot water and becomes mixed in.
As solely made by Terrence Andrew Davis (1969-12-15
to 2018-08-11; Q22708720
on Wikidata), a man as genuinely talented as
he was deeply troubled, TempleOS (formerly J
Operating System, SparrowOS, and
LoseThos; Q19961543
on Wikidata) was the name of a Public Domain
operating system that is littered with Biblical references and, as David
believed, God Himself wanted him to build - an OS partly designed by
God. Some of the strange destine choices that God asked Davis to do with
the system's features were that the screen resolution should be in
640x480, with a 16-color display, and single audio voice - all of witch
were more than outdated by 2005, let along in 2017.
Other odd things about the OS was that it was unable to talk to other computers, printers, and even unable to connect to the Internet, however, it could be said that the lack of networking was a smart move by Terry, as the OS has no security features at all, such as not having even basic things like there not being any passwords or file permissions, but this didn't matter to David at all, as it was possible to instead talk to the Almighty God via the system, or be it thanks to a random text generator that David called an upgraded Ouija board. In reality, this was simply a random sentence generator that Davis constructed meaning from.
Humorously, the OS was written in a version of the C language that Davis made, named HolyC. TempleOS included an original compiler, kernel, flight simulator, and other original games. It was also possible for people to embed 3D models inside of source code comments, something unheard of in many, many mainstream computers.
As stated, its creator was Terry A. David, an American programmer, who created and designed the operating system. As a teenager, he learned the assembly language on a Commodore 64, soon earning himself a master's degree in electrical engineering from Arizona State University and working for several years at Ticketmaster as a programmer for VAX machines. Sadly, it could be said that the downfall of Terry began in 1996, when he began experiencing regular manic episodes, one of which led him to hospitalization. He was initially incorrectly diagnosed with bipolar disorder, then being corrected to having schizophrenia.
After this, he lived in Las Vegas with his parents, eventually being kicked out due to him no longer wanting to take his medication and his fits of anger, shouting at them. Davis would also be known for going on rants on his livestreams, spouting about the C.I.A., Black people, the I.R.A., and God. Now living on the streets, Davis lived off donations from his fans and his disability money, suffering more and more from disillusionment with himself, thinking that he was married to a woman called Diana. On 2018-08-11, while walking alongside railroad tracks in The Dalles, Oregon, Davis was struck and killed by an oncoming train. While investigators could not determine if his death was accidental or suicide, the train engineer believed his death to be a suicide. In the police report, it was noted that Davis was walking with his back to the train, turning around moments before he was hit.
When The Dalles Chronicle covered the story that an unnamed homeless person was hit by a train, the newspaper was hit by a large number of phone calls, asking if it was indeed David, being confirmed in a later piece.
Despite of his death, the work of Terry lives on in the form of forks of his work, such as with Shrine and Erythros, two projects that can only exist thanks to the original project being Public Domain.
When he was alive, Terry would have rants about taboo topics and dissensions of himself. People shouldn't judge him for these things but rather realise that he was unable to control himself. In the end, Terry died homeless; his story should be a warning about the issues of mental health and what we do with the people who suffer from them in our modern-day world.
If you have no wok, a regular pan will suffice.
When it comes to any knowledge of music, a person should be
embarrassed if they can't name at least one Beatles song. Over the
course of around ten years, The Beatles (Q1299 on Wikidata) forever changed the course of not only
rock ‘n' roll, but music as a whole, and it's difficult to find a band
or artist, especially in the Western world, who hasn't been influenced
some way or another by this band.
It's all been said before, and trying to even come up with a new angle to tell the story of how four boys from Liverpool made it big is a bit of a fool's errand, so rather than giving a full bio on the band, here are some fun facts that you might not know about, in no particular order.
Easy recipe to expand - black turtle beans and chickpeas also work well here.
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Tobacco pipe smoking is a way in which to smoke tobacco. It involves stuffing a tobacco pipe bowl with loose dried tobacco leaves, and lighting it produce a slow burn producing smoke which is then inhaled through the stem. A small hole sits within the bowl which is connected to the stem, allowing smoke to pass through.
Pipe smoking differs from cigarettes as the smoke is traditionally not inhaled due to the increased heat of the smoke being coarse against throat and lung. Once smoke is drawn from the pipe, it is instantly expelled, optionally by producing smoke rings. In this way, nicotine is absorbed through the gums instead of the lungs, causing, in this author's opinion, a much more pleasant experience. Additionally, a lit pipe lasts significantly longer than an average cigarette; some pipes once lit are able to be enjoyed for over an hour.
In this author's opinion pipe smoking is superior to cigarette smoking–as a cigarette smoker–primarily due to the length of time a pipe allows you to enjoy the tobacco and the sweeter and less chemical taste of the tobacco. This author did not realise the horrible chemical and paper burning smell and taste of cigarettes until attempting to smoke a pipe. It goes without saying that pipes additionally have the benefit of being more refined.
This author has only tried Mac Baren Original given its popularity but plans to try Capstan, Peterson Sherlock Holmes, and Peterson De Luxe Navy Rolls.
For novices, lighting a pipe is the most difficult part of tobacco pipe smoking. You must remember that much like driving a car, the most dumbest person can become proficient despite its initial appearance of difficulty. Much of it comes down to experience of technique; after a few successful lights, it will become second nature.
It is also worth mentioning that packing and lighting differs from smoker to smoker, much of it being preference. This is what the author has found worked for them through experimentation and can be taken as a starting point rather than a dogma.
Anywhere a tamper is mentioned, you may use your finger, though expect to be burned.
Ensure that the pipe is relatively clean of ash using a pipe cleaner or cloth. You don't have to be methodical about it, but ensure that you won't be relighting any ash or old tobacco.
Spill some of the tobacco from the pouch on a flat surface and loosely pinch some of the finer cut pieces dropping them from an inch or two above into the pipe. You don't want the tobacco to be clumpy as this will affect the draw. Use gravity to allow the tobacco to separate while falling into the pipe.
When enough is in the bowl to reach the brim, take a draw to ensure that air can still be drawn, it should feel akin to sucking smoothie through a straw. If it doesn't, start over. If it feels so, lightly push down on the tobacco with your finger to make some more room. It should feel a little springy.
Using the same method, drop some more tobacco in so it once more reaches the brim.
Hovering a lighter or a match over the top of the bowl, take quick draws–they should last no more than a second–opening your mouth directly after to allow the smoke to exit. By taking these draws, you will pull the flame towards the tobacco, think of it like feathering. Do not touch the tobacco with your flame, it should hover above, the quick draw will briefly pull the flame. Try to move the lighter in a circular motion in order to char the entire top. This is the charring step and the idea is not to light the pipe but to ready the light. Usually this takes about 10-15 draws to produce a white and gray looking surface, you should see no dried tobacco at the top.
With your tamper, flatten the charred surface which has no doubt become a mess.
Now it is time to light the pipe. The theory behind lighting a pipe is that the top is the charred entry point for the heat of the flame while the bottom slowly burns the tobacco which produces the smoke you draw. The charred top is not where the smoke comes from as drawing burning ash is not pleasant, as you can imagine.
Light the pipe using the same technique as charring it: hold a flame above the now charred surface and take short draws to feather the charred surface. This should take a few draws, and you will know if it is lit by the quantity and colour of the smoke your expel.
It should stay lit for a while, and it helps to tamper down lightly but firmly every ten minutes or so. If it doesn't, this is natural for a novice and as your experience grows so will your technique until miraculously it happily stays lit.
It should be noticed that your draws should be brief and slow. Not at all like a filter cigarette where you draw for quite long in an attempt to collect very little smoke; pipe smoke comes fast and it is hot. Expel the smoke from your mouth right after draw, and while this feels unnatural after coming from a cigarette, you will feel a pleasant tobacco haze in about ten minutes. Popping your lips to expel helps with tasting the wonderful flavours, while smoke rings require some practice.
If smoking gives you a sore throat or a tingly tongue, this is a sign that you are scorching the tobacco. Ensure you are not holding the flame directly to the tobacco, and try to feather the tobacco with the flame when you take the initial draws.
As being a part of a larger small trend of wikis inspired by the LRS Wiki, this currently unnamed wiki (on Git; has also been called TCW by Drummyfish, who made the LRS Wiki) is the sole work of tocariimaa, a self-deceived programmer and hermit.
Currently, the wiki only has a handful of pages, most talking about programming languages, Lua, Golang, Rust, C, and so on. Despite the low number of pages, each is written quite well with a clear understanding of what every language does with valid reasoning behind what has been written down, such as with the Gopher hypertext protocol page, where tocariimaa makes a good point about how modern web browsers «can't [be bothered] implementing such a trivial protocol».
Precooked thick wheat noodles are typically found in the refrigerated section of the supermarket. Preparing soba noodles is a worthy substitute.
A vegetarian dish that is easy to make and very flavorful. Goes well with rice or noodles
Serves 3 to 5.
Cooking time: ~10 to 20 minutes
Can be prepared the night before and kept frozen for a week or two.
In Tomato Aspic-Tomato jellies with sardines should be made in ample time to harden on ice. The aspic referred to is ordinary gelatin mixed with soup stock instead of plain water. Remove the skin from sardines, then split them open and take out the backbone and cut them into narrow strips.
Mix together in equal quantities some stiff mayonnaise sauce and cool, but liquid, aspic jelly then stir in some chopped capers and small pieces of tomato, in the proportion of a dessertspoon of each to half a pint of the mayonnaise and aspic mixture; and, lastly, add the sardines.
Have at hand some small tomato molds which have been rather thickly lined with tomato aspic, fill them with the sardine mixture and leave on ice until the jellies can be unmolded; serve each on a small leaf of lettuce, and surround with a salad of water-cress and sliced tomatoes.
Boil this mass for 3 hours, stirring constantly to keep from burning. When cool, strain through a sieve and bottle for use. Vegetable coloring may be used if you wish it to remain a bright red. (A family recipe handed down for generations and very good, indeed).
This is a based, easy and relatively quick to make meal. Great for making in large batches with a big pot and eating throughout the week.
Makes 3 quarts of pickles Corn Salad
2 doz. ears of corn; boil twenty minutes on cob. Cut off cob; chop one head cabbage; 3 green peppers, and 1 red pepper. Mix together. Put in kettle with four pints vinegar; 3 tablespoons salt, 2 tablespoons ground mustard; 4 cups sugar; 2 teaspoons celery seed. Cook 20 minutes.
Put tomatoes with 1 pt. water to boil, boil for at least half hour. Fry onion in butter and add to soup with sugar and salt. When thoroughly cooked thicken with the flour blended with a little water. Now strain. Have the milk very hot, not boiling. Stir constantly while adding milk to soup and serve at once.
Do not place on the stove after the milk is in the soup. 1 cup of cream instead of 2 cups of milk greatly improves the soup.
Half an ounce of butter, two ounces of grated cheese, one tablespoon of tomato; paprika. Melt the butter and add the tomato (either canned or fresh stewed), then the grated cheese; sprinkle with paprika and heat on the stove. Cut bread into rounds or small squares, fry and pour over each slice the hot tomato mixture.
Torrijas are a spanish dessert traditionally eaten during the Holy Week (Easter). It is said they were first cooked using the leftovers from the Lent.
A «merienda» (afternoon meal) that is intertwined with the history of colonization on the River Plate region. Never have it by yourself, instead with friends or family, and a cup/gourd of Mate.
Trouville, a seaside town of north-western France, in the department of Calvados, on the English Channel, 34 m. N.E. of Caen by rail. Pop. (1906), 5684. Trouville is situated on the slopes of well-wooded hills at the mouth of the Touques on its right bank opposite Deauville. Its fine stretches of sand and excellent bathing, a spacious casino and beautiful villas, are among the attractions which make it the most frequented French resort on the channel. Deauville is well known for its racecourse and villas, exceeding those of Trouville in luxury, but except during the race fortnight in August (la grande quinzaine) it is quiet and comparatively deserted. The port shared with Deauville and formed by the Touques is entered by a channel between jetties with a depth at high tide of 18½ ft. This leads on the one side to a tidal harbour, on the other to an outer and an inner basin. Timber, coals and cement are imported. The London & South Western Railway Company have a daily steamboat service from Havre to Trouville in connexion with their Southampton and Havre boats. Besides trawling and the provisioning of ships, in which Deauville is also engaged, Trouville carries on boat-building and has rope and briquette works.
Tuh'u (Akkadian for possibly «beetroot») is an ancient Mesopotamian spring festival dish, a lamb stew of sorts, extracted by historians at Yale Babylonian Collection from tablets from Babylonia, ca. 1740 BC.
Use the best tuna you can find. I like oil-packed but water is OK. Someone you know has a tuna salad recipe.
Turkey, smoked on a charcoal grill
Serve with a squeeze of lemon and alongside turmeric flatbread.
A great companion to Turkish Red Lentil Soup.
An herbaceous pancetta stuffed pork roast with a crispy exterior. Finished with a lemon vinaigrette. Adapted from Binging With Babish whose instructions are notoriously bad.
I point out that ingredients need to be fresh, the olive oil high quality, the salt needs to be kosher, and the pepper freshly ground not because I'm some rich snob but because it actually matters. The olive oil is one of the main flavors in this dish and it will taste significantly worse if you cheap out. Herbs, especially rosemary, don't even taste the same when comparing dried to fresh.
Despite it being the 21st century (or later depending on when you
read this), many would say that they have never touched a typewriter (Q46335 on
Wikidata), let alone used one. This
is a great shame, as there is no greater feeling besides maybe your
first kiss or seeing someone trip over a banana like in a cartoon than
using a typewriter.
The concept seems simple, but the moment you look at how the letters actually get pressed into the paper, it becomes surprisingly complex. It seems simple from the outside: you press a key, and it then triggers a spring to move what is called a bar that has the indent of a letter on it that will press itself against a long and inked-up ribbon that then in turn presses itself against the paper. But wait, there's more! So you're not always using the same ribbon; a small dial moves the ribbon so you're never hitting the same ink spot more than once. As well as this, the typewriter moves the paper to the left by one letter, so you don't type over what you just wrote... it's really an amazing bit of mechanical work, and there's even still more to your average typewriter, but what matters here is that thanks to it being a metal machine, it can be loud. Very loud.
The clinking and clanking of it is wonderful; you would think that being quiet should be best, but no, once you start to hear the noise, you want to carry on typing; you need to carry on this symphony of click click clicks. It's something that you truly don't know what you're missing out on until you try it for the first time.
Typewriters come in all shapes and sizes; some are nice and small, others are beasts. Personally, I have an Olivetti Lettera 35. It works like a dream, but it is quite big and very heavy, but even still, it's quite sleek in the way it looks, and the olive color of the body, despite being a plain color, makes it stand out.
For hunting the perfect writer for you, however, well, eBay might be your best bet. Typing in just «typewriter» into the search will show off pages upon pages of results; some are overpriced, others might be underpriced; it's all a matter of hunting out the perfect one for you that matters most. Obviously, if you're new to the whole typewriter scene, get one that you know is working; you don't want to mess around with something you know very little about, as you'll be stuck for hours not knowing what to do.
Once you've decided on the typewriter for you, and it's being mailed to your address, you need ink for it, or rather a «ribbon». This is either going to be one solid color (like black) or one color above another (mostly black and red). The two-color ones are unique, as a lot of mid- to late 20th-century typewriters allow the ability to press down a button, and you're now writing in a new color.
Once you get your ribbon, inserting it into the writer for the first time might seem stupid hard, but there are some good videos out there to help you (even a video by Tom Hanks!), but still, even once you're an expert at changing the ribbon, you're going to get ink on your fingers. Just the nature of the beast. Just rub your hands together, so the ink disappears; it's quite simple.
Then all you need to do is wind your paper in, and boom, you're writing.
Finding resources online isn't that hard, but
A traditional greek dip that goes well with crackers, celery and carrots or in a greek gyro. Great for parties and sharing with your family friends. Can be eaten immediately after preparation or after a few hours of being in the fridge for enhanced flavor.
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK, sometimes called «Britain» despite this excluding Noreen Ireland) is the given name to a country that lives next to mainland Europe, located in the North Sea.
The UK's head of state is the monarch, followed by the Prime Minister, the elected representative of the country. Despite the monarch being the formal head of state, in recent times their role has been largely ceremonial: signing bills that the government asks to be made official, serving as the unofficial face of the country, and hosting internal and state visits.
The natives of the country are called Britons (or «Brits»), who live in England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, as well as other islands (the Falkland Islands, Guernsey, Jersey, Isle of Man).
The United Kingdom has historically played a leading role in developing parliamentary democracy and in advancing literature and science. At its zenith in the 19th century, the British Empire stretched over one-fourth of the Earth's surface. The first half of the 20th century saw the UK's strength seriously depleted in two world wars and the Irish Republic's withdrawal from the union. The second half witnessed the dismantling of the Empire and the UK rebuilding itself into a modern and prosperous European nation. As one of five permanent members of the UN Security Council and a founding member of NATO and the Commonwealth, the UK pursues a global approach to foreign policy. The Scottish Parliament, the National Assembly for Wales, and the Northern Ireland Assembly were established in 1998.
The UK has been an active member of the EU since its accession in 1973, although it chose to remain outside the Economic and Monetary Union. However, motivated in part by frustration at a remote bureaucracy in Brussels and massive migration into the country, UK citizens on 2016-06-23 narrowly voted to leave the EU.
Conventional long form: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; note - the island of Great Britain includes England, Scotland, and Wales.
Conventional short form: United Kingdom.
Abbreviation: UK.
Etymology: the name United Kingdom is self-descriptive; the name Britain probably derives from the Celtic word pretani, meaning «painted people;» the designation of Great Britain for England, Scotland, and Wales dates back to medieval times and was used to distinguish the island from Little Britain, or Brittany, in modern France; the name Ireland evolved from the Gaelic name Eriu, which is possibly derived from the Old Celtic iveriu, meaning «good land».
No official date of independence: 927 (minor English kingdoms unite); 3 March 1284 (enactment of the Statute of Rhuddlan uniting England and Wales); 1536 (Act of Union incorporates England and Wales); 1 May 1707 (Acts of Union unite England, Scotland, and Wales as Great Britain); 1 January 1801 (Acts of Union unite Great Britain and Ireland as the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland); 6 December 1921 (Anglo-Irish Treaty formalizes partition of Ireland; six counties become Northern Ireland and remain part of the UK); 12 April 1927 (Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act establishes current name of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
The flag of the UK is a blue field with the red cross of Saint George (patron saint of England) edged in white superimposed on the diagonal red cross of Saint Patrick (patron saint of Ireland), which is superimposed on the diagonal white cross of Saint Andrew (patron saint of Scotland); properly known as the Union Flag, but commonly called the Union Jack; the design and colors (especially the Blue Ensign) have been the basis for a number of other flags including other Commonwealth countries and their constituent states or provinces, and British overseas territories.
Public-service British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is the largest broadcasting company in the world; BBC operates multiple TV networks with regional and local TV; mixed system of public and commercial TV broadcasters along with satellite and cable systems provide access to hundreds of international TV stations; BBC operates multiple national, regional, and local radio networks with multiple transmission sites; large number of commercial and satellite radio stations available.
Some or all of the text was taken from the CIA World Factbook (source), a work by the federal government of the the United States - all work by the US government lacks copyright.
Due to this using text that was written by the US government, please be aware that might not only be US-centric, but also have a pro-USA agenda.
Borscht is a beet soup that originates from Ukraine and is common in Eastern Europe and North Asia. Depending on the recipe, borscht may be purely vegetarian; it may be served either hot or cold; and it may range from a hearty one-pot meal to a clear broth or a smooth drink.
(Vareniki/Dumplings) Vareniki are popular all over the world, but abroad they have different names.
Uranus (Q324 on Wikidata) is the seventh planet from the Sun, and it has the third largest diameter of
planets in our solar system. Uranus
appears to spin sideways.
Uranus is a very cold and windy world. The ice giant is surrounded by 13 faint rings and 28 small moons. Uranus rotates at a nearly 90-degree angle from the plane of its orbit. This unique tilt makes Uranus appear to spin sideways, orbiting the Sun like a rolling ball.
Uranus was the first planet found with the aid of a telescope. It was discovered in 1781 by astronomer William Herschel, although he originally thought it was either a comet or a star. It was two years later that the object was universally accepted as a new planet, in part because of observations by astronomer Johann Elert Bode.
William Herschel tried unsuccessfully to name his discovery Georgium Sidus after King George III. Instead, the planet was named for Uranus, the Greek god of the sky, as suggested by Johann Bode.
Uranus' environment is not conducive to life as we know it. The temperatures, pressures, and materials that characterize this planet are most likely too extreme and volatile for organisms to adapt to.
With an equatorial diameter of 51,118 kilometers, Uranus is four times wider than Earth. If Earth was the size of a nickel, Uranus would be about as big as a softball.
From an average distance of 2.9 billion kilometers, Uranus is about 19 astronomical units away from the Sun. One astronomical unit (abbreviated as AU), is the distance from the Sun to Earth. From this distance, it takes sunlight 2 hours and 40 minutes to travel from the Sun to Uranus.
One day on Uranus takes about 17 hours. This is the amount of time it takes Uranus to rotate, or spin once around its axis. Uranus makes a complete orbit around the Sun (a year in Uranian time) in about 84 Earth years (30,687 Earth days).
Uranus is the only planet whose equator is nearly at a right angle to its orbit, with a tilt of 97.77 degrees. This may be the result of a collision with an Earth-sized object long ago. This unique tilt causes Uranus to have the most extreme seasons in the solar system. For nearly a quarter of each Uranian year, the Sun shines directly over each pole, plunging the other half of the planet into a 21-year-long, dark winter.
Uranus is also one of just two planets that rotate in the opposite direction than most of the planets. Venus is the other.
Uranus has 28 known moons. While most of the satellites orbiting other planets take their names from Greek or Roman mythology, Uranus' moons are unique in being named for characters from the works of William Shakespeare and Alexander Pope.
All of Uranus' inner moons appear to be roughly half water ice and half rock. The composition of the outer moons remains unknown, but they are likely captured asteroids.
Uranus has two sets of rings. The inner system of nine rings consists mostly of narrow, dark grey rings. There are two outer rings: the innermost one is reddish like dusty rings elsewhere in the solar system, and the outer ring is blue like Saturn's E ring.
In order of increasing distance from the planet, the rings are called Zeta, 6, 5, 4, Alpha, Beta, Eta, Gamma, Delta, Lambda, Epsilon, Nu, and Mu. Some of the larger rings are surrounded by belts of fine dust.
Uranus took shape when the rest of the solar system formed about 4.5 billion years ago - when gravity pulled swirling gas and dust in to become this ice giant. Like its neighbor Neptune, Uranus likely formed closer to the Sun and moved to the outer solar system about 4 billion years ago, where it is the seventh planet from the Sun.
Uranus is one of two ice giants in the outer solar system (the other is Neptune). Most (80% or more) of the planet's mass is made up of a hot dense fluid of «icy» materials - water, methane, and ammonia - above a small rocky core. Near the core, it heats up to 4,982 degrees Celsius.
Uranus is slightly larger in diameter than its neighbor Neptune, yet smaller in mass. It is the second least dense planet; Saturn is the least dense of all.
Uranus gets its blue-green color from methane gas in the atmosphere. Sunlight passes through the atmosphere and is reflected back out by Uranus' cloud tops. Methane gas absorbs the red portion of the light, resulting in a blue-green color.
As an ice giant, Uranus doesn't have a true surface. The planet is mostly swirling fluids. While a spacecraft would have nowhere to land on Uranus, it wouldn't be able to fly through its atmosphere unscathed either. The extreme pressures and temperatures would destroy a metal spacecraft.
Uranus' atmosphere is mostly hydrogen and helium, with a small amount of methane and traces of water and ammonia. The methane gives Uranus its signature blue color.
While Voyager 2 saw only a few discrete clouds, a Great Dark Spot, and a small dark spot during its flyby in 1986 - more recent observations reveal that Uranus exhibits dynamic clouds as it approaches equinox, including rapidly changing bright features.
Uranus' planetary atmosphere, with a minimum temperature of -224.2 degrees Celsius makes it even colder than Neptune in some places.
Wind speeds can reach up to 900 kilometers per hour on Uranus. Winds are retrograde at the equator, blowing in the reverse direction of the planet's rotation. But closer to the poles, winds shift to a prograde direction, flowing with Uranus' rotation.
Uranus has an unusual, irregularly shaped magnetosphere. Magnetic fields are typically in alignment with a planet's rotation, but Uranus' magnetic field is tipped over: the magnetic axis is tilted nearly 60 degrees from the planet's axis of rotation, and is also offset from the center of the planet by one-third of the planet's radius.
Uranus has auroras, but they are not in line with the poles like they are on Earth, Jupiter, and Saturn. This is due to the planet's lopsided magnetic field.
The magnetosphere tail behind Uranus opposite the Sun extends into space for millions of miles. Its magnetic field lines are twisted by Uranus' sideways rotation into a long corkscrew shape.
When it comes to significant global influence in culture, economics,
technology, and military power, the United States of
America (or «USA»:, also called «America»; Q30 on Wikidata), for better or for worse, is top dog,
largely thanks to it being one of the world's largest countries by both
area and population.
In 1911, Encyclopædia Britannica wrote about this country, saying1:
[The] great federal republic which had its origin in the revolt of the British colonies in North America, when, in the Declaration of Independence, they described themselves as «The Thirteen United States of America.»
The United States is also home to national wonders, names like Yellowstone National Park and the Grand Canyon come to mind. Animals like the red wolf, black-footed ferret, Rice's whale, as well as other animals who are currently facing the risk of extinction2, also call this land their home.
Thirteen of Britain's American colonies broke with the mother country in 1776 and were recognized as the new nation of the United States of America following the Treaty of Paris in 1783. During the 19th and 20th centuries, 37 new states were added as the nation expanded across the North American continent and acquired a number of overseas possessions. Two of the most traumatic experiences in the nation's history were the Civil War (1861-65), in which a northern Union of states defeated a secessionist Confederacy of 11 southern slave states, and the Great Depression of the 1930s, an economic downturn during which about a quarter of the labor force lost its jobs. Buoyed by victories in World Wars I and II and the end of the Cold War in 1991, the US remains the world's most powerful nation state. Since the end of World War II, the economy has achieved relatively steady growth, low unemployment, and rapid advances in technology.
Wash, clean and cut fine a veal kidney. Fry onion in butter until light brown, add kidney, tomatoes, mushrooms, parsley, potatoes, seasoning and water, and cook until tender.
Of the following mixtureHave meat ground fine as possible. Then mix thoroughly with the herbs, 1 egg, pepper and salt, 1/2 cup stock and 1/2 cup crumbs.
Form a loaf and brush top and sides with the second egg. Now, scatter the remaining 1/4 cup of crumbs over the moistened loaf.
Place in a baking pan with the 1/2 cup of stock and bake in a moderate oven three hours, basting very frequently, and adding water in case stock is consumed.
Put veal in stewing pan and allow it to cook until thoroughly done. Now chop meat and add cheese, flour, salt and pepper if needed and form into little balls about the size of a marble. While preparing these, drop in macaroni and cook until tender. Now add the meat balls.
If too thick use a little water. Beat the eggs lightly and add while boiling.
War Not Only Kills Bodies But Ideals
- MRS. HENRY VILLARD (1835 - 1900;Q91417on Wikidata), President of Women's Peace Conference.
To take the place of the roast on a meatless menu, try the following:
Soak and boil one-half pint of dried beans to make a pint of pulp, putting it through a colander to remove the skins. Take small can of tomato soup and to this allow a pint of nuts ground, two raw eggs, half a cup of flour browned, one small onion minced and a tablespoon of parsley, also minced. Season to taste with sage, sweet marjoram, celery salt, pepper and paprika and mix the whole well, stirring in half a cup of sweet milk. Put into a well-greased baking tin and brown for 20 minutes in a quick oven. Serve hot on a flat dish as you would a roast with brown gravy or tomato sauce.
The waste of good materials, the vexation that frequently attends such mismanagement and the curses not unfrequently bestowed on cooks with the usual reflection, that whereas God sends good meat, the devil sends cooks.
- E. Smith (1890 - 1965;Q144090on Wikidata).
Put meat in large kettle and boil for an hour; now add all the other ingredients and cook until soft. Ready then to serve.
This soup can be made as a cream soup without meat and is delicious. In this case you take a good sized piece of butter and fry all the vegetables slightly, excepting the potatoes. Now cover all, adding potatoes with boiling water and cook until tender.
When done season and add hot milk and 1 cup cream. This is very fine.
In making this soup without meat omit the tomatoes and use string beans instead.
Tell me what you eat, and I'll tell you what you are.
- Brillat Savarin (1755 - 1826;Q313027on Wikidata).
Venezuelan Arepas (not to be confused with Colombian Arepas) are a tipical venezuelan dish. They can be filled with dozens of things, and each presentation has a particular name, but they're still arepas.
Venus (Q313 on Wikidata) is the second planet from the Sun, and our closest planetary neighbor. It's the
hottest planet in our solar system, and is
sometimes called Earth's twin.
Venus is the second planet from the Sun, and Earth's closest planetary neighbor. Venus is the third brightest object in the sky after the Sun and Moon. Venus spins slowly in the opposite direction from most planets.
Venus is similar in structure and size to Earth, and is sometimes called Earth's evil twin. Its thick atmosphere traps heat in a runaway greenhouse effect, making it the hottest planet in our solar system with surface temperatures hot enough to melt lead - about 467 Celsius. And the atmospheric pressure at the surface is about 93 times what it is at sea level on Earth. Below Venus' dense, persistent clouds, the surface has volcanoes and deformed mountains.
The ancient Romans could easily see seven bright objects in the sky: the Sun, the Moon, and the five brightest planets: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. They named the objects after their most important gods.
Venus is named for the ancient Roman goddess of love and beauty, who was known as Aphrodite to the ancient Greeks. Most features on Venus are named for women. It's the only planet named after a female god.
About 50 kilometers from the surface of Venus temperatures range from 30 to 70 Celsius. This temperature range could accommodate Earthly life, such as «extremophile» microbes. And atmospheric pressure at that height is similar to what we find on Earth's surface.
At the tops of Venus' clouds, whipped around the planet by winds measured as high as 360 kph, we find another transformation. Persistent, dark streaks appear. Scientists are so far unable to explain why these streaks remain stubbornly intact, even amid hurricane-force winds. They also have the odd habit of absorbing ultraviolet radiation.
The most likely explanations focus on fine particles, ice crystals, or even a chemical compound called iron chloride. Although it's much less likely, another possibility considered by scientists who study astrobiology is that these streaks could be made up of microbial life, Venus-style. Astrobiologists note that ring-shaped linkages of sulfur atoms, known to exist in Venus' atmosphere, could provide microbes with a kind of coating that would protect them from sulfuric acid. These handy chemical cloaks would also absorb potentially damaging ultraviolet light and re-radiate it as visible light.
Some of the Russian Venera probes did, indeed, detect particles in Venus' lower atmosphere about a micron in length - roughly the same size as a bacterium on Earth.
None of these findings provide compelling evidence for the existence of life in Venus' clouds. But the questions they raise, along with Venus' vanished ocean, its violently volcanic surface, and its hellish history, make a compelling case for missions to investigate our temperamental sister planet. There is much, it would seem, that she can teach us.
Venus orbits the Sun from an average distance of 108 million kilometers, or 0.72 astronomical units (1 astronomical unit, abbreviated AU, is the distance from the Sun to Earth). Sunlight takes about six minutes to travel from the Sun to Venus, compared to about eight minutes for the Sun and Earth.
Earth's nearness to Venus is a matter of perspective. The planet is nearly as big around as Earth. Its diameter at its equator is about 12,104 kilometers, versus 12,756 kilometers for Earth. From Earth, Venus is the brightest object in the night sky after our own Moon. The ancients, therefore, gave it great importance in their cultures, even thinking it was two objects: a morning star and an evening star. That's where the trick of perspective comes in.
Because Venus' orbit is closer to the Sun than ours, the two of them - from our viewpoint - never stray far from each other. The ancient Egyptians and Greeks saw Venus in two guises: first in one orbital position (seen in the morning), then another (your «evening» Venus), just at different times of the year.
At its nearest to Earth, Venus is about 38 million kilometers. But most of the time the two planets are farther apart. The maximum distance between Venus and Earth is about 261 million kilometers. Mercury, the innermost planet, actually spends more time in Earth's proximity than Venus.
One more trick of perspective: how Venus looks through binoculars or a telescope. Keep watch over many months, and you'll notice that Venus has phases, just like our Moon - full, half, quarter, etc. The complete cycle, however, new to full, takes 584 days, while our Moon takes just a month. And it was this perspective, the phases of Venus first observed by Galileo through his telescope, that provided the key scientific proof for the Copernican heliocentric nature of the solar system.
Spending a day on Venus would be quite a disorienting experience - that is, if your spacecraft or spacesuit could protect you from the extreme heat and crushing air pressure. For one thing, your «day» would be 243 Earth days long - longer even than a Venus year (one trip around the Sun), which takes only 225 Earth days. For another, because of the planet's extremely slow rotation, sunrise to sunset would take 117 Earth days. And by the way, the Sun would rise in the west and set in the east, because Venus spins backward compared to Earth.
While you're waiting, don't expect any seasonal relief from the unrelenting temperatures. On Earth, with its spin axis tilted by about 23 degrees, we experience summer when our part of the planet (our hemisphere) receives the Sun's rays more directly - a result of that tilt. In winter, the tilt means the rays are less direct. No such luck on Venus: Its very slight tilt is only three degrees, which is too little to produce noticeable seasons.
Venus is one of only two planets in our solar system that doesn't have a moon, but it does have a quasi-satellite that has officially been named Zoozve. This object was discovered on Nov. 11, 2002, by Brian Skiff at the Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search (LONEOS) in Flagstaff, Arizona, a project funded by NASA that ended in February 2008.
Quasi-satellites, sometimes called quasi-moons, are asteroids that orbit the Sun while staying close to a planet. A quasi-satellite's orbit usually is more oblong and less stable than the planet's orbit. In time, the shape of a quasi-satellite's orbit may change and it may move away from the planet.
According to the International Astronomical Union (IAU), the organization that names space objects, Zoozve is the first-identified quasi-satellite of a major planet. Earth also has quasi-satellites, including a small asteroid discovered in 2016.
Based on its brightness, scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) estimate Zoozve ranges in size from 200 meters to 500 meters across.
Interestingly, Zoozve also orbits relatively close to Earth but does not pose a threat to our planet. For the next 175 years, the closest Zoozve will get to Earth is in the year 2149 when it will be about 3.5 million kilometers away, or about 9 times the distance from Earth to the Moon.
After the discovery in 2002, Skiff reported his finding to the Minor Planet Center, which is funded by a Near-Earth Object (NEO) Observations Program grant from NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office. At that time, it was given the provisional name 2002 VE68. Skiff said he didn't realize the asteroid's importance and forgot about the object until a radio show host reached out to him in 2023 about naming it Zoozve.
Soon after Skiff's discovery, a team of astronomers, including Seppo Mikkola with the University of Turku in Finland and Paul Wiegert with the University of Western Ontario in London, determined that the object was the first of its kind to be discovered. They think that Zoozve may have been a companion to Venus for at least 7,000 years, and that Earth's gravity helped push Zoozve into its present orbit.
The name Zoozve comes from a child's poster of the solar system. The artist, Alex Foster, saw «2002 VE68» on a list of solar system objects, wrote down «2002 VE,» and then misread his own handwriting as «Zoozve.»
Latif Nasser, co-host of the WNYC Studios show Radiolab, tracked down the source of the mistake with the help of Liz Landau, a NASA senior communications specialist. Nasser suggested that Skiff request that the IAU officially name the asteroid Zoozve. Skiff agreed, and the name Zoozve was approved in February 2024.
Venus has no rings.
A critical question for scientists who search for life among the stars: How do habitable planets get their start? The close similarities of early Venus and Earth, and their very different fates, provide a kind of test case for scientists who study planet formation. Similar size, similar interior structure, both harboring oceans in their younger days. Yet one is now an inferno, while the other is the only known world to host abundant life. The factors that set these planets on almost opposite paths began, most likely, in the swirling disk of gas and dust from which they were born. Somehow, 4.6 billion years ago that disk around our Sun accreted, cooled, and settled into the planets we know today. Better knowledge of the formation history of Venus could help us better understand Earth - and rocky planets around other stars.
If we could slice Venus and Earth in half, pole to pole, and place them side by side, they would look remarkably similar. Each planet has an iron core enveloped by a hot-rock mantle; the thinnest of skins forms a rocky, exterior crust. On both planets, this thin skin changes form and sometimes erupts into volcanoes in response to the ebb and flow of heat and pressure deep beneath.
On Earth, the slow movement of continents over thousands and millions of years reshapes the surface, a process known as «plate tectonics.» Something similar might have happened on Venus early in its history. Today a key element of this process could be operating: subduction, or the sliding of one continental «plate» beneath another, which can also trigger volcanoes. Subduction is believed to be the first step in creating plate tectonics.
NASA's Magellan spacecraft, which ended a five-year mission to Venus in 1994, mapped the broiling surface using radar. Magellan saw a land of extreme volcanism - a relatively young surface, one recently reshaped (in geologic terms), and chains of towering mountains.
Venus is the hottest planet in our solar system, with surface temperatures about 467 Celsius. And atmospheric pressure at the surface squeezes with the same force as being more than 930 meters underwater on Earth. The Soviet Union sent a series of probes to Venus between 1961 and 1984 as part of its Venera program (Venera is Russian for Venus). Ten probes made it to the surface, and a few functioned briefly after landing. The longest survivor lasted two hours; the shortest, 23 minutes. Photos they snapped before the landers cooked show a barren, dim, and rocky landscape, and a sky that is likely some shade of sulfur yellow.
Volcanoes and tectonic forces appear to have erased most traces of the early surface of Venus. Newer computer models indicate the resurfacing may have happened piecemeal over an extended period of time. The average age of surface features could be as young as 150 million years, with some older surfaces mixed in.
Venus has valleys and high mountains dotted with thousands of volcanoes. Its surface features - most named for both real and mythical women - include Ishtar Terra, a rocky, highland area around the size of Australia near the north pole, and an even larger, South-America-sized region called Aphrodite Terra that stretches across the equator. One mountain reaches 11 kilometers, higher than Mt. Everest. Notably, except for Earth, Venus has by far the fewest impact craters of any rocky planet.
Other notable features of the Venus landscape include:
Venus' atmosphere is one of extremes. With the hottest surface in the solar system, apart from the Sun itself, Venus is hotter even than the innermost planet, charbroiled Mercury. The atmosphere is mostly carbon dioxide - the same gas drives the greenhouse effect on both Venus and Earth - with dense clouds composed of sulfuric acid. The atmospheric pressure at the surface measures a crushing 93 times what it is at sea level on Earth. At the surface, the hot, high-pressure carbon dioxide behaves in a corrosive fashion. But higher up in the atmosphere, temperatures and pressure begin to ease.
Even though Venus is similar in size to Earth and has a similar-sized iron core, the planet does not have its own internally generated magnetic field. Instead, Venus has what is known as an induced magnetic field. This weak magnetic field is created by the interaction of the Sun's magnetic field and the planet's outer atmosphere. Ultraviolet light from the Sun excites gases in Venus' outermost atmosphere; these electrically excited gases are called ions, and thus this region is called the ionosphere (Earth has an ionosphere as well). The solar wind - a million-mile-per-hour gale of electrically charged particles streaming continuously from the Sun - carries with it the Sun's magnetic field. When the Sun's magnetic field interacts with the electrically excited ionosphere of Venus, it creates or induces, a magnetic field there. This induced magnetic field envelops the planet and is shaped like an extended teardrop, or the tail of a comet, as the solar wind blows past Venus and outward into the solar system.
Vincent van Gogh (Q5582 on Wikidata) was a master before his time, a mind
worth loving but got none in return. During his lifetime, van Gogh was
anything but a success, in terms of both his art
life (he only sold one painting) and his personal life where he suffered
from deep depression and manic episodes.
van Gogh was in and out of mental hospitals during his lifetime and would carry on working regardless, like in January 1889, when he painted a portrait of his doctor, Félix Rey. It's a work that stands out due to the use of colors by van Gogh; in the foreground we see a wonderful view of Félix Rey in a blue jacket, a trimmed mustache and beard and short, black hair.
The background shows a deep green with marvelous yellow curves, red dots inside of black half circles.
This particular painting is noticeable as it shows his Japanising style of painting; it is also noticeable as Doctor Félix Rey and his family were not admirers of the work, finding it ridiculous and unrealistic. The work was used for over ten years to block up a hole in a chicken coop.
It was only after his life was cut short, too short, that people fell in love with his bright and colorful world. Paintings like Starry Night are works of art that will live in the consciousness of anyone who has even a mild interest in the art world.
The rise of the Nazi Party saw much of the artwork being put under the term of Entartete Kunst: Degenerate art. This included Vincent van Gogh, whose art was seized from the Neue Staatsgalerie in Munich.
VIRE, a town of north-western France, capital of an arrondissement in the department of Calvados, 47 m. S.W. of Caen by rail. Pop. (1906) 6228. Vire stands on an eminence surrounded on three sides by the Vire and crowned by the remains of a 12th-century château. The church of Notre Dame (13th to 15th century), and the picturesque Tour de i'Horloge (13th century), beneath which runs the chief street, are the principal buildings. A library and a small museum with good collections of porcelain, pictures and curiosities, are installed in the town hall (17th and 18th centuries). In the public garden there is a statue of Marshal Jacques Goyon, comte de Matignon (1525–1597); and the native poets C. J. L. Chênedollé and P. L. R. Castel are represented, the former by a marble bust, the latter by a bronze statue. Vire grew up around a castle built in the 12th century by Henry I. of England, and in the middle ages was one of the important strongholds of Normandy. South-west of the town is the gorge called Vaux-de-Vire, in which was situated the mill of Olivier Basselin (15th century), the fuller and reputed author of the satiric songs, hence known as «vaudevilles».
Put in double boiler 2 cups of milk and 1/2 cup of cream. When this reaches boiling point salt to taste. While stirring constantly sift in 1/2 cup of white corn meal (this is best). Boil 5 minutes still stirring, then add 1 tablespoon of butter and from 2 to 5 well beaten eggs (beaten separately) 1 for each person is a good rule.
Pour into a greased baking dish and bake in a quick oven until brown like a custard. It must be eaten hot with butter and is a good breakfast dish.
This recipe was written by Kate Waller Barrett (credited as «Mrs. K.
W. Barrett»; 1857 - 1925; Q6375844
on Wikidata), the American physician,
humanitarian, philanthropist, sociologist, social reformer, and
co-founder of the National Florence Crittenton Mission.
Make a batter of four tablespoons of sifted flour, one tablespoon of olive oil or melted butter, two well-beaten whites of eggs, one-half teaspoon of salt, and warm water enough to make a batter that will drop easily. Sprinkle the oysters lightly with salt and white pepper orpaprika. Dip in the batter and fry to a golden brown.
Drain, and serve on a hot platter, with slices of lemon around them.
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
- Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745;Q41166on Wikidata).
VoIRC (short for Voice over Internet Relay Chat) is a project that allows users to transmit voice over IRC by encoding a low bitrate audio codec over text. It works better than you would expect despite it being a joke. I like it and more importantly think it's funny. It was created by Adrian Siekierka (asiekierka on GitHub).
Its only glaring flaw is being written in an older version of Nim.
While it seems easy enough to install Nim with little destruction to
your computer, the builds appear to either randomly break or need
library nursing as the march of technological «progress» continues. The
use of ncurses is also a ding; I've had issues on some terminals with
F12 being recognized.
This is how messages appear to a conventional IRC client (try playing it, though you'll need to strip the newlines):
VoiRC01]TCgTk[]V6WA|&Id1_X..M+@hm(/'*Ts?)iQa^0AT4Nkkk\)OG-\Xvfuk/)
@+>zs_D<J=C#>7,Ym8#4MG/+wda=FSAxgjq>i}m%QpSd:LuxDc$8qzgdT:i]Vx@N)%
ezwL?U2rw"QpHR]Nb;4fQKA#msM.A+F:A@V:8\u1DF>xnakV@<`PZ)XhR^,nw]u&.L
^Bj9A8l>e5a]usf7i~$ns\,0RZ_!<hU<tPug&\Z?3vt<9b($u]igEzZD73'@i~0JgG
(0r58$8c2Isr3LC0T]v*Cy/UdjN>k!q[\vA41+a~5hIO?>lHu>+J(4w:?|*p3Xr~t%
&6^)1@J^pBJk`}wHJ8LGaDJ<Q}TbVUi^]X5ENZJVrW_"X(XcV'dD$GP^lxa+NeThere are great side effects to text messages being voice: you can splice up audio much like a cassette tape, and conventional IRC logs and bouncers allow conversations to be replayed if missed.
If the links in this file are broken, see the bottom for archive.org URLs, which presumably have a longer life.
It is possible to run VoIRC without building it by running a compiled build:
https://asie.pl/files/voirc_build2_linux_x64.zip
Edit launch.sh and change the
irc.aspie.pl server and #voirc channel to
appropriate values.
Navigate to the directory in a terminal and run the script:
$ ./launch.sh <nick>
F12 to toggle
microphone broadcast.TROUBLESHOOTING: If you receive an error about the required files being missing, I recommend you try and build the project; see instructions below.
There are two parts that require building: the VoIRC Nim project itself, and then the two libraries (libsoundio and libcodec2) that it depends on.
I have failed to get VoIRC working with my own builds of the two libraries, so I have also included the pre-built versions provided by the author of VoIRC.
The following are complete build instructions.
Install the Nim version manager, choosenim:
$ curl https://nim-lang.org/choosenim/init.sh -sSf | sh
In every open terminal, add Nim to PATH:
$ export PATH="$HOME/.nimble/bin:$PATH"
Then install 0.19.2 (it will most likely need to compile; ensure you have build tools installed):
$ choosenim 0.19.2
https://github.com/asiekierka/voirc
And the libsoundio and libcodec2 builds (disregard the VoIRC build in this case):
https://asie.pl/files/voirc_build2_linux_x64.zip
... or source code:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+sourcefiles/codec2/0.8.1-2/codec2_0.8.1.orig.tar.xz https://github.com/andrewrk/libsoundio/archive/1.1.0.tar.gz
y to every question:$ nimble install irc soundio ncurses
TROUBLESHOOTING: If you receive an error about failing to load
libcrypto.so or libssl.so, link the latest
installed version to the current directory and adjust the library
path:
$ ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypto.so.3 libcrypto.so.1.1
$ ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libssl.so.3 libssl.so.1.1
$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. nimble install irc soundio ncurses$ make
libsoundio.so and
libcodec2.so to be present in the library path. First, copy
the .so files you built (or downloaded) into the same
directory where the new voirc build can be found, then
run:$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. ./voirc <host> <nick> <channel>
TROUBLESHOOTING: If you receive an error about failing to load
libncursesw.so, check the directory of the library file on
your system (as root):
$ ldconfig -p | grep libncurses
libncursesw.so (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/libncursesw.soAnd then update the LD_LIBRARY_PATH to reflect it:
$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=.:/usr/lib ./voirc <host> <nick> <channel>
libsoundio is a straight forward cmake project, however
changes in GCC require that additional flags be used.
Extract the libsoundio source code (URL found above).
In the directory of libsoundio's source code, create the build directory and configure cmake:
$ mkdir build && cd build
$ cmake .. -DCMAKE_POLICY_VERSION_MINIMUM=3.5 \
-DCMAKE_C_FLAGS="-Wno-error=switch"$ make
.so file to the root of VoIRC's source
folder and name it libsoundio.so.libcodec2 is also a straight forward cmake project, however changes in GCC also require that additional flags be used.
Extract the libcodec2 source code (URL found above).
In the directory of libcodec2's source code, create the build directory and configure cmake:
$ mkdir build && cd build
$ cmake .. -DCMAKE_POLICY_VERSION_MINIMUM=3.5 \
-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$HOME/opt/libcodec2 \
-DCMAKE_C_FLAGS="-Wno-error=incompatible-pointer-types \
-Wno-error=implicit-function-declaration -fcommon"$ make
.so file to the root of VoIRC's source
folder and name it libcodec2.so.If any of the VoIRC URLs are now broken, try this mirror:
https://archive.org/details/voirc_build2_linux_x64
https://archive.org/details/voirc-src-be94145
warez: /weirz/, n.
Widely used in cracker subcultures to denote cracked version of commercial software, that is versions from which copy-protection has been stripped. Hackers recognize this term but don't use it themselves. See warez d00dz, courier, leech, elite.
Here is a sour cream filling for cake: Mix equal quantities of thick, sour cream, chopped nuts and raisins. Add a little sugar and lemon juice, enough to give the proper taste, and spread between layers of cake.
Many kinds of cookies can be made with sour milk. Here is the recipe for a good sort: Cream half a cup of butter with a cup of sugar and add a cup of sour milk in which three-quarters of a teaspoon of soda has been dissolved, and two cups or a little more of flour, sifted with half a teaspoon of cloves, half a teaspoon of cinnamon and a teaspoon of salt. Chill the dough before cutting the cookies. It must be rolled thin.
Corn bread can be made with sour milk in this way: Sift a cup of cornmeal with half a cup of flour, half a teaspoon of salt, a tablespoon of shortening (clear chicken fat that has been fried out is a good kind), and then add a cupful of sour milk and a beaten egg. Lastly, add half a teaspoon of soda. It is well to add the soda last, where a light mixture is desired, as it begins to give off carbon dioxide, the gas that makes the dough rise, as soon as it is moist and comes in contact with the acid of the sour milk.
Graham bread made with sour milk in this way is delicious: Sift together a cup and a half of graham flour and one of white. Add a cup of broken nut meats and a teaspoon of salt. Then stir in half a cup of milk and a cup and a half of sour milk, and, lastly, add a teaspoon of soda. The soda may be sifted into a little of the white flour and added last, if adding it with the flour is easier.
When You Meet A Member Of The Ku Klux Klan is the
name of a short 1921 poem by Robert Lincoln Poston (1891 - 1924; Q7346901
on Wikidata).
Poston was an African-American and a newspaper editor and journalist, being an activist in Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA).
Below is the poem in full:
When you meet a member of the Ku Klux Klan,
Walk right up and hit him like a natural man;
Take no thought of babies he may have at home,
Sympathy's defamed when used upon his dome.Hit him in the mouth and push his face right in,
Knock him down a flight of steps and pick him up again.Get your distance from him and then take a running start,
Hit him, brother, hit him, and please hit the scoundrel hard.Pour some water on him, bring him back to life once more
Think of how he did your folks in the days of long ago;
Make a prayer to heaven for the strength to do the job,
Kick him in the stomach, he, a low, unworthy snob.Call your wife and baby out to see you have some fun,
Sic your bulldog on him for to see the rascal run.Head him off before he gets ten paces from your door,
Take a bat of sturdy oak and knock him down once more.
This time you may leave him where he wallows in the sand,
A spent and humble member of the Ku Klux Klan.
This is a recipe combining two others and adding stuff on top. This is more of an example of possible ingredients, you can replace any of them with others.
One serving(~200g dough) should be enough to make a pizza. The dough can be stored in the refrigerator for ~2 days. For it to last longer, it should be stored in the freezer.
Did you mean MDK: License?
Did you mean MDK: Okay Licenses For MDKwiki?
Wikidata (Q2013 on
Wikidata; wikidata.org) is a
large collaborative Internet project (a sister project of Wikipedia,
hosted by Wikimedia Foundation) building a massively huge noncommercial
public domain database of information about everything in existence.
Well, not literally everything – there are some rules about what can be
included that are similar to those on Wikipedia, e.g. notability (you
can't add yourself unless you're notable enough, of course you can't add
illegal data etc.). Wikidata records data in a form of so called
knowledge graph, i.e. it connects items and their properties with
statements such as «Earth:location:inner Solar System», creating a
mathematical structure called a graph. The whole database is available
to anyone for any purpose without any conditions, under CC0!
Wikidata was opened on 2012-10-30. The first data that were stored were links between different language versions of Wikipedia articles, later Wikipedia started to use Wikidata to store information to display in infoboxes in articles and so Wikidata grew and eventually became a database of its own. As of 2022 there is a little over 100 million items, over 1 billion statements and over 20000 active users - the first items added to the database were the Universe, Earth, life, death, human etc.
The database is a knowledge graph. It stores the following kinds of records:
Q, e.g. dog (Q144), Earth (Q2),
idea (Q131841)
or Holocaust (Q2763).P,
e.g. instance of (P31),
mass (P2067)
or image (P18).
Properties may have constraints (created via statements), for example on
values they may take.entity:property:value, for example
dog([Q144](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q144)):subclass of([P279](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P279)):domestic mammal([Q57814795](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q57814795)).
Statements may link one property with multiple values (by having
multiple statements about an entity with the same property), for example
a man may have multiple nationalities etc. Statements may also
optionally include qualifiers that further specify details
about the statement, for example specifying the source of the data.The most important properties are probably instance
of (P31)
and subclass of (P279)
which put items into sets/classes and establish subsets/subclasses. The
instance of attribute says that the item is an individual
manifestation of a certain class (just like in object-oriented
programming), we can usually substitute is with the word «is», for
example Blondi (Q155695,
Hitler)'s dog is an instance of dog (Q144); note
that an item can be an instance of multiple classes at the same time.
The subclass of attribute says that a certain class is a
subclass of another, e.g. dog (Q144) is a
subclass of pet (Q39201)
which is further a subclass of domestic animal (Q622852)
etc. Also note that an item can be both an instance and a class.
Many libraries/APIs/tools exist for accessing wikidata because, unlike shitty corporations who guard and obfuscate their data by force, wikidata provides data in friendly ways – you can even download the whole database dump in several formats including simple ones such as JSON (about 100 GB).
Arguably the easiest way to grab some smaller data is through the online query interface (https://query.wikidata.org/), entering a query (in SPARQL language, similar to SQL) and then clicking download data – you can choose several formats, e.g. JSON or CSV. That can then be processed further with whatever language or tool, be it Python, LibreOffice Calc etc.
BEWARE: the query you enter may easily take a long time to execute and time out, you need to write it nicely which for more complex queries may be difficult if you're not familiar with SPARQL. However wikidata offers online tips on optimization of queries and there are many examples right in the online interface which you can just modify to suit you. Putting a limit on the number of results usually helps, also try to reorder the conditions and so on.
Now finally on to a few actual examples. The first one will show one of the most basic and common queries: just listing items with certain properties, specifically video games of the FPS genre here:
SELECT ?item ?itemLabel ?itemDescription WHERE
{
?item wdt:P31 wd:Q7889. # item is a video game and
?item wdt:P136 wd:Q185029. # item is FPS
# this gets item labels (you can append "Label" or "Description" to any requested variable now):
SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "[AUTO_LANGUAGE],en". }
}
LIMIT 100 # limit to 100 results, make the query fasterThe language is somewhat intuitive, you basically enter conditions and the database then searches for records that satisfy them, but if it looks hard just see some tutorial.
OK, how about some lulz now? Let's search for human races, then count them and compute their average, minimum and maximum height:
SELECT ?race ?raceLabel ?raceDescription (COUNT(?human) AS ?count) (AVG(?height) AS ?averageHeight) (MAX(?height) AS ?maxHeight) (MIN(?height) AS ?minHeight) WHERE
{
{ # subquery for optimization (delaying label retrieval)
SELECT ?human ?race ?height WHERE
{
?human wdt:P31 wd:Q5. # is human
?human wdt:P172 ?race. # has race
# has height in centimetres:
?human p:P2048 ?st1.
?st1 psv:P2048 ?vn1.
?vn1 wikibase:quantityAmount ?height.
?vn1 wikibase:quantityUnit wd:Q174728.
} LIMIT 10000
}
SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "[AUTO_LANGUAGE],mul,en". }
} GROUP BY ?race ?raceLabel ?raceDescription ORDER BY DESC(?count)Currently this returns 331 races, the most frequent (in the database) being «African American» with average height 181 cm, then White Americans (171 cm), White People (167 cm) etc. Now let's shit on privacy and make an NSA style database or people along with personal data such as their names, birth and death dates, causes of death etc.:
SELECT ?human ?humanLabel ?humanDescription ?sexLabel ?birthDate ?birthPlaceLabel ?deathDate ?deathCauseLabel
WITH
{
SELECT ?human ?birthDate ?birthPlace ?sex ?deathDate ?deathCause WHERE
{
?human wdt:P31 wd:Q5.
?human wdt:P569 ?birthDate.
?human wdt:P19 ?birthPlace.
?human wdt:P21 ?sex.
OPTIONAL { ?human wdt:P570 ?deathDate. }
OPTIONAL { ?human wdt:P509 ?deathCause. }
FILTER (?birthDate >= "1000-01-01T00:00:00Z"^^xsd:dateTime)
} LIMIT 10000
} AS %data
WHERE
{
INCLUDE %data
SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "[AUTO_LANGUAGE],mul,en" .
}
}Cool, works pretty nicely. Another interesting query may be one about languages, counting their grammatical cases, tenses etc.:
SELECT ?languageLabel ?nativeName ?typeLabel ?countryLabel ?writingLabel ?code1 ?code2 ?speakers ?cases ?tenses ?genders WHERE
{
{
SELECT
?language
(MAX(?nn) AS ?nativeName)
(MAX(?ws) AS ?writing)
(MAX(?sp) AS ?speakers)
(MAX(?c1) AS ?code1)
(MAX(?c2) AS ?code2)
(MAX(?ty) AS ?type)
(MAX(?co) AS ?country)
?cases
?tenses
?genders
WHERE
{
{ ?language wdt:P31 wd:Q33742. } UNION { ?language wdt:P31 wd:Q20162172. } UNION { ?language wdt:P31 wd:Q33215. } # is one of these
OPTIONAL{?language wdt:P1098 ?sp. }
OPTIONAL{?language wdt:P1705 ?nn.}
OPTIONAL{?language wdt:P282 ?ws.}
OPTIONAL{?language wdt:P218 ?c1.}
OPTIONAL{?language wdt:P219 ?c2.}
OPTIONAL{?language wdt:P279 ?ty.}
OPTIONAL{?language wdt:P2341 ?co.}
OPTIONAL{ SELECT ?language (COUNT(?tmp) AS ?cases) WHERE { ?language wdt:P2989 ?tmp. } GROUP BY ?language }
OPTIONAL{ SELECT ?language (COUNT(?tmp) AS ?tenses) WHERE { ?language wdt:P3103 ?tmp. } GROUP BY ?language }
OPTIONAL{ SELECT ?language (COUNT(?tmp) AS ?genders) WHERE { ?language wdt:P5109 ?tmp. } GROUP BY ?language }
} GROUP BY ?language ?cases ?tenses ?genders ?countries
}
SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "[AUTO_LANGUAGE],mul,en". } # here assign label
} ORDER BY ?speakersThis currently returns 1309 languages, French with most tenses (21) and Hungarian with most cases (24).
Wikipedia (Q52 on Wikidata) is probably one of the most famous of
websites - and for good reason. If you search up almost anything online,
be it a song, a city, an artist, or an episode of a TV show, it's almost
guaranteed that one of the top links - if not the top - will be
Wikipedia. This is partly due to search engines like Google paying
massive amounts to this online encyclopedia so it can embed zero-click
results for things, and YouTube (owned by Google) also sometimes showing
a banner at the bottom of videos about a subject, but also thanks to
Wikipedia just simply being, at least for the most part, a reliable
place to find information.
One of Wikipedia's golden rules is that if you write something, you should have a reliable source for said fact. It's a solid foundation for sure, although false or deliberately misleading information can slip through at times on the side; still, it's a forever-changing and evolving beast. If there's an error, someone will probably edit it or point it out so that other, more advanced Wikipedians can correct said section of an article.
In October 2009, Pandigital, as sponsored by Openmoko, came-out with
the WikiReader (Q2447967
on Wikidata), an offline, text-only version of
the English Wikipedia (along with Wiktionary,
Wikiquote, and Project Gutenberg). The device, which was essentially a
small white box that showed only text in black and white, was presumably
aimed at lower-income families in non-Western countries, along with
people who had no access to the Internet.
With the starting price of $99 (along with a twice-yearly offline update
service delivered via Micro SD card was also available at a cost of $29
per year, pretty much meaning that it would allow the end user to view
the latest version of Wikipedia at the time of publication), it could be
said that the WikiReader came-out too late, as two years prier in 2007,
Apple released their iPhone 1 with the slogan of «This is only the
beginning», and it certainly was, as more and more people would now be
able to have access to a smartphone that could also visit Wikipedia,
along with any other website that they desired, this was helped by the
fact that Internet access was growing fast.
Because more and more people would have a phone in their pocket, and also the price, plus the niche and quickly shrinking market, 2014 saw the end of the product, as the project itself was shut down and abandoned for unknown reasons. Existing WikiReaders no longer receive updates to their database, and the only way to get new updates is thanks to independent sellers who offer Micro SD cards with the latest version of Wikipedia - usually the Micro SD card can cost more than what the WikiReader is worth now (around $10).
Not everything in the past written down is good, and William
McGonagall (Q981978 on
Wikidata), «Grand Knight of the Holy Order of
the White Elephant Burmah», is a big example of that. Born in 1825, he
would write about 200 poems in his lifetime, many of them regarded as
the worst poems. Despite this, I do admire how, even when being mocked,
McGonagall still pushed through.
One of his most famous poems would be about the 1879 Tay Bridge disaster, where 59 were known to have died. Below is an extract of the poem. Note that he got the number of dead very wrong.
Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv'ry Tay! Alas! I am very sorry to say That ninety lives have been taken away On the last Sabbath day of 1879, Which will be remember'd for a very long time.
'Twas about seven o'clock at night, And the wind it blew with all its might, And the rain came pouring down, And the dark clouds seem'd to frown, And the Demon of the air seem'd to say- «I'll blow down the Bridge of Tay.»
When the train left Edinburgh The passengers' hearts were light and felt no sorrow, But Boreas blew a terrific gale, Which made their hearts for to quail, And many of the passengers with fear did say- «I hope God will send us safe across the Bridge of Tay.»
But when the train came near to Wormit Bay, Boreas he did loud and angry bray, And shook the central girders of the Bridge of Tay On the last Sabbath day of 1879, Which will be remember'd for a very long time.
Wirth's law (Q1516845
on Wikidata) states that software becomes
slower more quickly than hardware gets faster. It is named after
computer scientist Niklaus Wirth (1934–2024; Q92604),
who first stated it in his 1995 article A Plea for Lean
Software. It is considered as a software-related specialization of
the Jevons paradox.
The World Factbook is the name of a now (at least publicly) discontinued project by the United States government, running from 1962 until 2026 - the book, later website, gives an overview of every country and territory1, often giving a short history of the location, what the major religions are, the ethnicities of those who live there and breaking down other information from what currency is used to whatever the top level domain name is.
The project was spearheaded by the CIA for government members, so a lot of the information can be rather dull to read, but still, it can be an interesting look into how the USA views parts of the world.
In 2026, the project was axed, with the CIA announcing that the project had «sunset»2:
Over many decades, The World Factbook evolved from a classified to unclassified, hardcopy to electronic product that added new categories, and even new global entities. The original classified publication, titled The National Basic Intelligence Factbook, launched in 1962. The first unclassified companion version was issued in 1971. A decade later it was renamed The World Factbook. In 1997, The World Factbook went digital and debuted to a worldwide audience on CIA.gov, where it garnered millions of views each year.
This announcement was a suprise to many as no warning was given and the announcement had no explanation as to why the project would end.
Despite this, thanks to the work being made by the CIA, it is automatically in the public domain, so a number of mirrors and continuation projects have been made over years, such as with CIA World Factbook Archive and OpenFactBook.
World Wide Web (WWW) is a network of interconnected electronic documents, so called webpages or websites, that exists on the Internet. Websites have addresses (such as www.example.com) and are viewed with programs called web browsers. WWW is not synonymous with Internet, but it is probably its best known service so people sometimes think they are the same.
This is a dry noodle dish from the town of Yibin in Sichuan, China.
Basically the northern England equivalent of the french pancake ( a means to make use of extra flour when you didn't have enough for bread ). They go well with Sunday Roasts. Puddings may be preserved in freezer for up to a month.
Originally published at https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/best-yorkshire-puddings
This is a traditional Palestinian-Lebanese way of making Zaatar. It can be then eaten by dipping bread in olive oil and in the Zaatar or as part of another recipe. Will hold for a long time in the pantry. This recipe scales for larger amounts so long you preserve the ratios.
1. n. Spiciness.
2. vt. To make food spicy.
3. vt. To make someone ‘suffer' by making his food spicy. (Most hackers love spicy food. Hot-and-sour soup is considered wimpy unless it makes you wipe your nose for the rest of the meal.) See zapped.
4. vt. To modify, usually to correct; esp. used when the action is performed with a debugger or binary patching tool. Also implies surgical precision. «Zap the debug level to 6 and run it again.» In the IBM mainframe world, binary patches are applied to programs or to the OS with a program called ‘superzap', whose file name is ‘IMASPZAP' (possibly contrived from I M A SuPerZAP).
5. vt. To erase or reset.
6. To fry a chip with static electricity. «Uh oh - I think that lightning strike may have zapped the disk controller.»
zapped: adj.
Spicy. This term is used to distinguish between food that is hot (in temperature) and food that is spicy-hot. For example, the Chinese appetizer Bon Bon Chicken is a kind of chicken salad that is cold but zapped; by contrast, vanilla wonton soup is hot but not zapped. See also oriental food, laser chicken. See zap, senses 1 and 2.
Simple veggie starter/side dish from Murcia (Southeastern Spain)
«Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.» Coined by Jamie Zawinski (who called it the «Law of Software Envelopment») to express his belief that all truly useful programs experience pressure to evolve into toolkits and application platforms (the mailer thing, he says, is just a side effect of that). It is commonly cited, though with widely varying degrees of accuracy.
zbeba: n.
[USENET] The word ‘moron' in rot13. Used to describe newbies who are behaving with especial cluelessness.
zen: vt.
To figure out something by meditation or by a sudden flash of enlightenment. Originally applied to bugs, but occasionally applied to problems of life in general. «How'd you figure out the buffer allocation problem?» «Oh, I zenned it.» Contrast grok, which connotes a time-extended version of zenning a system. Compare hack mode. See also guru.
zero: vt.
1. To set to 0. Usually said of small pieces of data, such as bits or words (esp. in the construction zero out).
2. To erase; to discard all data from. Said of disks and directories, where ‘zeroing' need not involve actually writing zeroes throughout the area being zeroed. One may speak of something being logically zeroed rather than being physically zeroed. See scribble.
zero-content: adj.
Syn. content-free.
Zero-One-Infinity Rule: prov.
«Allow none of foo, one of foo, or any number of foo.» A rule of thumb for software design, which instructs one to not place random limits on the number of instances of a given entity (such as: windows in a window system, letters in an OS's filenames, etc.). Specifically, one should either disallow the entity entirely, allow exactly one instance (an «exception»), or allow as many as the user wants - address space and memory permitting.
The logic behind this rule is that there are often situations where it makes clear sense to allow one of something instead of none. However, if one decides to go further and allow N (for N > 1), then why not N+1? And if N+1, then why not N+2, and so on? Once above 1, there's no excuse not to allow any N; hence, infinity.
Many hackers recall in this connection Isaac Asimov's SF novel The Gods Themselves in which a character announces that the number 2 is impossible - if you're going to believe in more than one universe, you might as well believe in an infinite number of them.
zeroth: /zee´rohth/, adj.
First. Among software designers, comes from C's and LISP's 0-based indexing of arrays. Hardware people also tend to start counting at 0 instead of 1; this is natural since, e.g., the 256 states of 8 bits correspond to the binary numbers 0, 1, ..., 255 and the digital devices known as counters count in this way.
Hackers and computer scientists often like to call the first chapter of a publication ‘Chapter 0', especially if it is of an introductory nature (one of the classic instances was in the First Edition of K&R). In recent years this trait has also been observed among many pure mathematicians (who have an independent tradition of numbering from 0). Zero-based numbering tends to reduce fencepost errors, though it cannot eliminate them entirely.
zigamorph: /zig'@·morf/, n.
1. Hex FF (11111111) when used as a delimiter or fence character. Usage: primarily at IBM shops.
2. [proposed] n. The Unicode non-character U+FFFF (1111111111111111), a character code which is not assigned to any character, and so is usable as end-of-string. (Unicode is a 16-bit character code intended to cover all of the world's writing systems, including Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Chinese, hiragana, katakana, Devanagari, Thai, Laotian and many other scripts - support for elvish is planned for a future release).
zip: vt.
[primarily MS-DOS/Windows] To create a compressed archive from a group of files using PKWare's PKZIP or a compatible archiver. Its use is spreading now that portable implementations of the algorithm have been written. Commonly used as follows: «I'll zip it up and send it to you.» See tar and feather.
zipperhead: n.
[IBM] A person with a closed mind.
zombie: n.
1. [Unix] A process that has died but has not yet relinquished its process table slot (because the parent process hasn't executed a wait(2) for it yet). These can be seen in ps(1) listings occasionally. Compare orphan.
2. A machine, especially someone's home box, that has been cracked and is being used as part of a second-stage attack by miscreants trying to mask their home IP address. Especially used of machines being exploited in large gangs for a mechanized denial-of-service attack like Tribe Flood Network; the image that goes with this is of a veritable army of zombies mindlessly doing the bidding of a necromancer.
zorch: /zorch/
1. [TMRC] v. To attack with an inverse heat sink.
2. [TMRC] v. To travel, with v approaching c [that is, with velocity approaching lightspeed -ESR].
3. [MIT] v. To propel something very quickly. «The new comm software is very fast; it really zorches files through the network.»
4. [MIT] n. Influence. Brownie points. Good karma. The intangible and fuzzy currency in which favors are measured. «I'd rather not ask him for that just yet; I think I've used up my quota of zorch with him for the week.»
5. [MIT] n. Energy, drive, or ability. «I think I'll punt that change for now; I've been up for 30 hours and I've run out of zorch.»
6. [MIT] v. To flunk an exam or course.
A track called Zorch was the B-side of a single called Captain Hideous, released by novelty artist Nervous Norvous in 1955. Norvous was heavily influemced by a radio comedian named Red Blanchard; the word «zorch» appears to have been coined on Blanchard's show in the early 1950s. The word itself had no meaning, but there where compounds using it that did - «zorch cow», for example, was a variant of the Chicago-area slang «black cow» for a root beer float.
Zork (Q226736 on
Wikidata): /zork/, n.
The second of the great early experiments in computer fantasy gaming; see ADVENT. Originally written on MIT-DM during 1977-1979, later distributed with BSD Unix (as a patched, sourceless RT-11 FORTRAN binary; see retrocomputing and commercialized as ‘The Zork Trilogy' by Infocom. The FORTRAN source was later rewritten for portability and released to Usenet under the name «Dungeon». Both FORTRAN «Dungeon» and translated C versions are available at many FTP sites; the commercial Zork trilogy is available at http://www.ifarchive.org/. See also grue.
zorkmid: /zork´mid/, n.
The canonical unit of currency in hacker-written games. This originated in Zork but has spread to nethack and is referred to in several other games.
Originally called «Züri Gschnätzlets» (Zurich chopped) from the city of Zurich in Switzerland, this is a tasty and practical recipe from simple ingredients. You can use any kind of meat really, depending on your taste. Very traditionally, finely sliced liver and kidney is also mixed in with the meat and mushrooms.
Serve with Rösti or other traditional Swiss dish.