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Rice field in Japan. In agriculture, a bumper crop is a crop that has yielded an unusually productive harvest.The word "bumper" in this context comes from a usage that means "something unusually large", [1] which is where this term comes from.
A volley of low-cost ETFs and mutual funds cut back on issuers' profitability despite towering stock market.
There is a connection to the word nesa meaning subject to public ridicule/failure/shame, i.e. "the failure/shame of swords", not only "where the sword first hits/ headland of swords" Kennings can sometimes be a triple entendre. N: Þorbjörn Hornklofi, Glymdrápa 3 ship wave-swine unnsvín: N ship sea-steed gjálfr-marr: N: Hervararkviða 27 ...
Boon Gould (1955–2019), English lead guitarist of Level 42; Boon Mark Gittisarn (1898–1987), Thai Protestant pastor; Boon Thau Loo, Singaporean-American computer scientist; Lim Boon Keng (1869–1957), Chinese doctor, social and educational reformer in China and Singapore
A boon for US workers or 'incredibly irresponsible'? Expert slams Social Security Fairness Act, says it will lead to 'deeper and faster' benefit cuts — while millions stand to gain from it.
Rehoboth, Massachusetts, is a Right to Farm community.. Right to farm laws in the United States deny nuisance lawsuits against farmers who use accepted and standard farming practices and have been in prior operation even if these practices harm or bother adjacent property owners or the general public.
Jeanne Vaccaro, a scholar and curator from Kansas, always wanted to become a bumper sticker person. For years, she collected stickers from artists, musicians and bookstores, but she kept them away ...
The term bane (from Old English: bana, meaning "thing causing death, poison"), [1] in botany, is an archaic element in the common names of plants known to be toxic or poisonous. In the Middle Ages , several poisonous plants of the genus Aconitum were thought to have prophylactic qualities, repelling and protecting against that which they were ...