Remember dressing up as a Pilgrim for your grade school Thanksgiving play? Well, guess what? If your teacher really wanted you to look authentic, she wouldn’t have made you wear that goofy black and white outfit (set off by those ridiculously oversized buckles).
The truth is, those early colonists wore black and white only on Sundays [...]
Something that’s “louche” (LOOSH) - literally French for “cross-eyed” - is of questionable taste or morality.
Example (as used by Liesl Schillinger in The New York Times): “The rebuild [Moscow hotel] is home to the flashy, louche, Western disco Manhattan Express.”
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• Turkey is a type of pheasant, and the only poultry native to the western hemisphere.
• The bird on your Turkey Day table is probably going to be a hen. The females are slaughtered starting at about 15 pounds. The males (toms) are allowed grow to 40 pounds and are usually used to produce deli [...]
In golf, when you are putting in the wind, you have to widen your stance.
In volatile markets, this rule can be adapted to apply to trading as well. It may seem like strange advice, but in times of extreme volatility, you need to widen your stop-loss points. Most people think you have to do the [...]
When you hear investment people talk about the big three, they are usually talking about GM, Ford, and Chrysler. But what about the other big three?
As children, most of us dreamed of having three things when we grew up: a nice house, a nice car, and a nice job. Right now, the outlook for this [...]
One of the most profound business books I ever read was Permission Marketing by Seth Godin.
The ideas in the book were very innovative at the time. The Internet and e-mail marketing were still young, and, like the Wild Wild West, most marketers and business owners were still trying to “wrangle it in” and figure out [...]
Are you a secretary, word processor, data entry processor or typist? Are you interested in typing from home? Providing secretarial services? Running a secretarial business?By knowing the challenges involved in running a home-based typing services or secretarial business and learning from other people’s mistakes, you can increase your profits and become successful faster. Mistake [...]
The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade has been held every year since 1924 (except for a two-year interruption during World War II when the helium and rubber used in the balloons was donated to the war effort).
The first Macy’s parade featured animals from the Central Park Zoo. Inflatable characters came on the scene in [...]
To be “fey” (FAY) - from the Old English for “fated to die” - is (1) to possess or display a strange and otherworldly aspect or quality, or (2) to appear to be slightly crazy, as if under a spell.
Example (as used by Evan Thomas in The Very Best Man ): “Beneath a fey manner, his [...]
If you’re a fan of pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving dessert, say thanks to the pumpkin farmers in central Illinois. They grow about 90 percent of the U.S. pumpkin crop. (In 2007, that crop was worth $117 million to them.) Central Illinois is also where the world’s largest pumpkin processing plant is located. It produces 85 [...]
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