Sacred water

There's Zam Zam grocery store. My husband knew the story of Zamzam Well.
While reading The tea and sage poem, I came across Hagar which summarised the story of zamzam.

We had soggy samosas, huge Paratha roll with good serving of tandoori chicken (while ordering this I mistook it for stuffed paratha) , chicken tikka masala with its sauce that tastes like pickle, Sindhi biryani with goat (The bones looked like such wide, hollow that you could shove pencils through it. They looked like bangles worn by the lambada reibe in AndhraPradesh) from there.

Of Fizzy liquids

At a recent party, we didnt even have to open a Coke and Sprite bottle. They traveled to another party too but still came back. Everyone's sticking to water.
Pepsi at some point owned Wilson Sporting Goods and Coca Cola owned Columbia Pictures. At first I was surprised to know that they would have interests in such companies different from them but it makes sense that sports events and movies are venues where crowds enjoy soft drinks.
Yabby
Makati
Mindanao
Sari-sari store

Dont expect what you cant inspect  - Neville Isdell


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Dan Eldon of 

also lived in Africa as a teenager.

Great dig

stone of kings
Cenote
The excavation of Ossario by Edward Herbert Thompson is well described. The artefacts being digged from water and sent away to another country is an interesting case. Whose are the ruins? The finder's who brought them to light?
Matthew Stirling

Finding medicine

Serendipity - The three princes of Serendip.
Germ theory of disease
When I read of Joseph Lister, I wondered if Listerine was after him.

Inside a skyscraper

The book is  a pictorial gem. All the concepts are shown in pictures. Beginning with a cross section of a base of a tall building, digging, all the equipment needed, skilled workers involved in the whole process are all shown in easily understandable figures.
The section of Elevators with new algorithms, energy generators during descent are all interesting to learn of.
A whole floor or more as a Mechanical floor
Fire sprinkler mechanism
Frit the glass
Reading of Hugh Ferris, I wondered if Ferris wheel was after him.

Art at Safeway

Yesterday while shopping, at the entrance where usually our eye lands on fruits on sale, it was a life size cow from The Art of Dairy contest. There were signs on all sides with 'no touching the cow'. There was a cordon too as a way of psychological fencing and still a guy touched the right ear of the cow. What was he expecting 'I am Roxie' like when you touch the ear of My Rocking Simba ?

All things birdy

Methuselah

when the author Julie Zickefoose writes about the brains of Carolina wrens being bigger than that of sparrows, I am reminded of last night's dream/mare, where I saw my brain.
By noting the time the eggs of a bird take to hatch from the birds books and comparing them with the specimens in her garage, she turns her house into a science lab.
Wildlife rehabilitator license
The author compares the behaviours of different kinds of birds. With regards to Fecal sac, she explains how chimney swifts young defecate in a style different from the birds that are in open-cup nests. While pointing out these differences, she also explains the motivation for the other birds to remove the tracks of diaper activity to keep predators away.
I didnt know that Cotton-Eyed Joe was an Appalachian tune.
Grouse young fly so quickly.
Population cycles in animals which have young once a year.
Zugunruhe
Edwin Way Teale
Snail Kite
Duck Stamp and land conservation.
Looking at the word blueprint, after many months the name of blueprint review magazine figures.
Looking at the word pacific, my guess that the Pacific Ocean might have something to do with pacifying is right.