Tag: life
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The Last Samurai
While I am a big fan of the film, the last samurai, while watching it, there were a lot of parallels between history and real life, I was curious about the link and dug a little further. The Meji restoration in Japan was an interesting historical point in Japan’s history. The story of the last…
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Getting Inked? The history of Tattoos
In 1961, it officially became illegal to give someone a tattoo in New York City. But Thom deVita didn’t let this new restriction deter him from inking people. This ban existed till 1997. What is the earliest evidence of tattoos? In terms of tattoos on actual bodies, the earliest known examples were for a long…
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Window Tax- aka- Daylight Robbery
It was interesting to learn about the etymology of “Daylight Robbery”- it really prompted me to dig deeper. When William III was short of money, which he attempted to rectify by the introduction of the much-despised Window Tax. As the name suggests, this was a tax levied on the windows or window-like openings of a…
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How the Swiss Ruled Chocolate
I came across this exercpt from a very interseting article. You can read the article here: The Unfinished Dream Behind Amul’s Foray into the Chocolate Industry (thewire.in) Theobroma Cocoa, food of the gods, had been consumed in Latin America since the Aztec and Mayan times in liquid form, it was the making of the…
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Searching for John Doe
Originally, John Doe was a sham name used to indicate any plaintiff in an action of ejectment (a legal action to regain property) in civil court. Richard Roe was the counterpart, to indicate the defendant. These fake names were used in delicate legal matters, a practice that was abolished in English law in 1852. Since…
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A Twist in the Tail- The history of the NeckTie
The first word that I learnt from this research – sartorialists – derived from the word Sartorial (adj) that of or relating to clothing or style or manner of dress. Textured, solid, striped, botanical, jacquard, geometric, 52 to 58 inches long, alternately withering or widening from 3112 to 5 inches, costing anywhere from three for…
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Right now- on Top of the World- all you got to do is Jump!
Yesterday, Eddie Van Halen Passed after an unsuccessful fight with Cancer. He was 65. It’s 2020! enough said! I was introduced to his music in 1996, by my brother, back in India. It was fitting that the first song I heard was Right Now. After that I heard the entire string of hits including Jump…
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How a Subprime Auto Lender Consumed Detroit With Debt and Turned Its Courthouse Into a Collections Agency
When more than 30% of your employees are debt collectors, you have to question – are you a lender or a collector. The following article came in Jalopnik – Read the original article here When Don Foss started his career as a car salesman, he recognized early on that most of his prospective customers had…
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Why are the Oceans Salty?
My son asked me yesterday “why are the oceans salty” and I literally didn’t have an answer as to why they are salty and where their salt comes from- so decided to do some research. This is why the oceans are salty Ocean salt primarily comes from rocks on land Some areas of the ocean are…
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Of butterflies in your stomach
I just finished a book by a friend, which contained his life as a government official in my home state of Kerala, India. It was an interesting book which captured life in India and the functioning of the government in the early 80’s. In one story he talked about how we remember those people who…