It’s hard to see exactly what’s being claimed by this statement, since all people, regardless of eye color, share a common ancestor. I guess the interesting point is that the common ancestor of all blue-eyed people lived only 6000-10,000 years ago.
Of course German also says colloquially “einen fahren lassen” for flatulence. Which would be pupsen (German Wikipedia, very illustrative), among many other synonyms.
Oh, how could I not think of this! Good one. I think the nearest English expression for this idiom is “to let one rip”.
@superdude, this might help a bit. FYI, green eyes aren’t actually green. My eyes have what is called central heterochromia with amber on the inner ring and blue on the outer ring. They can look green.
A bit of background: in Ecuador, inflation caused a switch from their currency, the sucre, to the USD.
While two-dollar-bills are sometimes considered bad luck in the US, the rare bills are good-luck charms in Ecuador. “There’s a superstition that if you possess a [$2 bill], then more [money] will come to you," Dennehy says.
Another 2015 article, same author
The first day I returned to my old city, Latacunga, I went to the market to buy some mangos. When I took out a $2 bill the vendor crossed herself and called over her neighbor. “My God! Look! Look! A two dollar bill.”
I told her I had more and was willing to exchange them.
“How much do you want for each one?”
She thought me foolish to be selling them at face value but gladly bought some more. A few people that had overheard our conversation came over forming a small crowd around us. I only had about $30 worth on me and exchanged it all with the first handful of people that had rushed in.
Consequently, in 2019:
For the first time, Ecuador’s Central Bank will introduce the U.S. $2 bill into general circulation.
Now if we can only get them to believe that the US dollar coin is a good-luck charm, we can offload the millions of those sitting in Treasury Department vaults.
Funny you should mention that.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/article138837363.html
Thanks but the article says only about 150 million dollar coins are there but there are over six billion in the US.
Ace did have the rights to publish the other Edgar Rice Burroughs books outside the Tarzan and Barsoom series (Ballantine got the rights to those) I haven’t researched this myself, but a quick look at the isfdb seems to show The Mastermind of Mars , Thuvia Maid of Mars, The Chessmen of Mars, and A Fighting Man of Mars out of the Mars series being published by Ace, who I think did not have the rights to them (they were only in the 1963 series). Ace did have the rights to Carson of Venus, Pellucidar, and those random other works like Outlaw of Tarn.
Ace did indeed publish on the cheap. Their books were smaller than most other standard paperbacks, and I do think the paper was cheaper. But they also got artist like Roy G. Krenkel and Frank Frazetta to do their covers and interior artwork. But you got the impression that they were strapped for funds, which probably explains their claim-jumping on Edgar Rice Burroughs and J. R. R. Tolkien. As someone once said in another context, they had a Great Admiration for Artists whose Work Lay in the Public Domain – Ace was the place to go for old classic works by Jules Verne, or obscure things like Robert W. Chambers’ The King in Yellow, Pierre Benoit’s l’Atlantide, Thea von Harbou’s Metropolis, Robert E, Howard’s Almuric, and similar such stuff.
I’ve read and heard so much about the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) and the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) and their involvement in erecting and maintaining statues and museums that glorify the Lost Cause ideology that I hadn’t considered whether there were any organizations memorializing the Union cause. This weekend I learned differently.
There is an active organization of Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) posts and halls, and the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War (SUVCW) keeping alive the memory of the Union soldiers and cause. What I learned about in particular was about the GAR Hall in Lynn, Massachusetts. The exterior of the building has just been repaired, but it has been in constant operation and use since it was constructed in 1885. The centerpiece of the building is a great large hall that has photographs of all Union Army volunteers from Lynn. You have to see the photographs of this to properly appreciate it:
It’s open to the public, although they appreciate it if you call first. I have to go se this.
I’ve passed this a zillion times by car and by bike, not realizing what was just off Market Street on this side street.
Still, impressive for a country with less than 18M population. If we circulated them at that clip, we’d need about 2.7B. The mint only makes a total of 10B of all coins for circulation per year.
Hey, (extremely) small steps.
When I was more regularly attending RenFaires, I’d go to the Post Office and feed the change machines there $20s so I could get a bunch of those coins. It was fun paying with them at Faire, since they looked like small gold coins.
I don’t think they’re dispensed at Post Offices anymore, and the credit union I use, like most, doesn’t let you specify coin issues if you go in to buy change. By which I mean, if you’d gone in asking for specific states when they were issuing state quarters, they couldn’t guarantee you’d get those states, or even any states, in the rolls they sold.
I heard about this guy’s alternate universe automotive drawings just last night.
This news has only just reached me.
In 2015, biological anthropologist Jacob Dunn and his team from Cambridge University wanted to see how the size of howler monkey testicles plays into social arrangements, and how they correlate with their screams.
Mr Dunn concluded that the scream of a howler monkey varies in inverse proportion to the size of its testicles. Furthermore, his team found that males with small testes and loud screams are more likely to gather a large female following.
I’m wondering if Mr Dunn has ever considered applying his experience to human males. I’ll allow that observations of human males might be more difficult to arrange.
Ow boys?
The building and site is completely symmetrical, except for Shah Jahan’s tomb, when he died later. His son’s didn’t want to build an entire second building that Shah wanted, and buried him next to his wife’s tomb, off center.
Still, Medford has 80,000+.
From googling about this, the main north-south rail line below Eugene was routed east of the mountains for technical/engineering reasons that were applicable at the time. This happened in many places around the country, and its unfortunate legacy today is that some Amtrak routes don’t go where the people are, or if they do the route is so tortuous that it takes too long and they can’t compete with cars and buses.
Was the first US President born after the American Revolution, and spoke Dutch as his first language.
(Honest, I’m scrolling down to find a factoid here I stumbled on earlier, and the “find” button is no help at all. I didn’t realize I’m responding to facts from a year ago.)
Of course, if the country hadn’t gone wild building highways, then potentially the rail ways could have afforded to maintain their lines and the towns served by the existing lines would have prospered.