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Some terms for 'hangover' are derived from names for liquor, for example, in Chile a hangover is known as a caña [62] from a Spanish slang term for a glass of beer. [63] Similar is the Irish 'brown bottle flu' derived from the type of bottle common to beer. [64] In German, the hangover is known as a "Kater", literally a tomcat.
In the middle voice, the verb means "enter into an agreement", in the sense that the gods are called to guarantee an action. [1] Blood sacrifice was performed to begin a war; spondaí marked the conclusion of hostilities, and is often thus used in the sense of "armistice, treaty."
During the early Middle Ages, botany had undergone drastic changes from that of its antiquity predecessor (Greek practice). An early medieval treatise in the West on plants known as the Ex herbis femininis was largely based on Dioscorides Greek text: De material medica. The Ex herbis was a lot more popular during this time because it was not ...
Tripe chorba (Turkish: işkembe çorbası, Romanian: ciorbă de burtă, Bulgarian: шкембе чорба, romanized: škembe čorba, Macedonian: чкембе чорба, romanized: čkembe čorba) is a common dish in Balkan, Eastern European and Middle Eastern cuisines. It is widely (not universally) considered to be a hangover remedy. [4] [5 ...
(Bonus health history fact: The phrase “hair of the dog” is short for the adage “the hair of the dog that bit you,” and supposedly comes from the old belief that you can heal an ailment by ...
Symbolic robed figure of a medieval public executioner at Peter and Paul Fortress, Saint Petersburg, Russia Photograph (hand-coloured), original dated 1898, of the lord high executioner of the former princely state of Rewah, Central India, with large executioner's sword (Tegha sword) Depiction of a public execution in Brueghel's The Triumph of Death 1562–1563 Stylised depiction of public ...
In fact, Entertainment Weekly called MacDonald the best "Weekend Update" host in the show's history. After his departure, Macdonald appeared on "Girlboss," "The Middle," "Sunnyside," and "Family Guy."
According to the History Channel, the name was first used to describe an 1869 financial crisis, in which corruption and stock fraud caused the U.S. gold market to collapse entirely.