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• In Greek, it is gallopoúla (γαλοπούλα), which means “French chicken”.
• In colloquial Egyptian Arabic, it is called the “Greek bird”.

• In Turkish, the bird is called hindi which means “from & related to India,”
• In Polish, it is Indyk, a reference to India. Similarly it is indik (אינדיק) in Yiddish, also referring to India.
• In Portuguese, the word for turkey is peru, which also refers to the country Peru.

“It was the Earth’s most severe extinction event, with up to 96% of allmarine species^[3] and 70% of terrestrial vertebrate species becoming extinct.^[4] It is the only known mass extinction of insects.^[5][6] ”

“ As chief counsel, Ferdinand Pecora personally examined many high-profile witnesses, who included some of the nation’s most influential bankers and stockbrokers. Among these witnesses were Richard Whitney, president of the New York Stock Exchange, investment bankers Otto H. Kahn, Charles E. Mitchell, Thomas W. Lamont, and Albert H. Wiggin, plus celebrated commodity market speculators such as Arthur W. Cutten. Given wide media coverage, the testimony of the powerful banker J.P. Morgan, Jr. caused a public outcry after he admitted under examination that he and many of his partners had not paid any income taxes in 1931 and 1932.”

“His motto was ‘Truth and love must prevail over lies and hate.’”

“In his seminal work The White Goddess (1948), Graves argued that ancient knowledge was transmitted orally from generation to generation by the druids of pre-literate Ireland. Taking issue with Macalister, with whom he corresponded on this and other matters, he declared some of LGE’s traditions “archaeologically plausible”.^[7] … Graves did find some striking links between Celtic and Near Eastern mythology that are difficult to explain unless one is willing to accept that myths brought to Ireland centuries before the introduction of writing were preserved and transmitted accurately by word of mouth before being written down in the Christian Era.^[8]”

“One suggested method of predicting exchange rate movements is that the rate between two currencies should naturally adjust so that a sample basket of goods and services should cost the same in both currencies (PPP). In the Big Mac index, the basket in question is a single Big Mac burger as sold by the McDonald’s fast food restaurant chain. The Big Mac was chosen because it is available to a common specification in many countries around the world as local McDonald’s franchisees at least in theory have significant responsibility for negotiating input prices. For these reasons, the index enables a comparison between many countries’ currencies.”

“In research showing how people make sense of information in their environment, this sentence was used to demonstrate how arbitrary decisions can drastically change meaning, analogous to how changes in the punctuation and quotes in the sentence show that the teacher alternately prefers James’ work and John’s work. (‘James, while John had had “had,” had…’, or ‘James, while John had had “had had,”…’)”

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• In a prison, two inmates share their experience. “What did they arrest you for?” one of them asks. “Was it a political or common crime?” “Of course political. I’m a plumber. They summoned me to the district Party committee to fix the sewage pipes. I looked and said, ‘Hey, the entire system requires replacement.’ So, they gave me seven years.”^[9]

• A frightened man came to the KGB “My talking parrot disappeared.” “This is not our case. Go to the criminal police.” “Excuse me. Of course I know that I have to go to them. I am here just to tell you officially that I disagree with that parrot.”

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“Many Carny words are still used by professional wrestlers today, e.g. mark, work, snozz, et al. Pro wrestling originated in the carnivals of the 19th and early 20th century where wrestlers not wanting to face regular injury and wanting to make bouts more entertaining would ‘stage’ their fights. Carny language was used to disguise the staged nature of the bouts with all involved keeping “kayfabe” or protecting the secret. When wrestling became an event in itself and left the carnivals the language came with it.”