Category: Sociology

What do chocolate coins represent? In the United Kingdom chocolate coins mimic the design of real money; they are traditionally bought around Christmas and are used to decorate the Christmas tree and to fill the stockings of children. When children visit a friend or relative they are allowed to find and take chocolates from the […]

What is wrong with Pirate Bay search? After a few months in troubled waters, the Pirate Bay is finally back online – but unfortunately, not for everyone. The world’s favorite torrent site has been forced to walk the plank (that is, it has been banned) in some parts of the world, due to controversy surrounding […]

What is the Inquisition Galileo? The Inquisition summons Galileo to Rome to stand trial. 1633 Galileo is convicted on “vehement suspicion of heresy” and the book is banned. He is issued with a prison sentence, later commuted to house arrest, under which lived the last nine years of his life. What happened to Copernicus and […]

What do you call a child who has no parents? An orphan is a child whose parents have died. You can also say that a child is orphaned. She finds herself caring for an orphaned child. You can also say that a child with no mother is motherless, and a child with no father is […]

What elements can germanium bond with? It is a lustrous, hard-brittle, grayish-white metalloid in the carbon group, chemically similar to its group neighbors silicon and tin. Pure germanium is a semiconductor with an appearance similar to elemental silicon. Like silicon, germanium naturally reacts and forms complexes with oxygen in nature. Is germanium a metallic bond? […]

Is Dollar General competing with Walmart? Dollar General is increasingly looking like a viable competitor to Walmart. Insider spoke to CEO Todd Vasos about the current retail landscape, and where Dollar General stands. “We like to say that anybody who sells the same products we do are our competitors eventually, somewhere down the road,” he […]

Are glass harmonicas still used today? Invented by Ben Franklin and once rumored to drive people to madness (it didn’t), the glass armonica is a strange and delicate instrument that only a handful of people in the world can still play. How old is the glass harmonica? The Armonica, also called the glass harmonica was […]

Are french fries finger food? In casual restaurants when French fries are served along with a hamburger or other sandwich, it is acceptable to eat them with your fingers. Dining in a more upscale restaurant calls for French fries to be cut into bite-sized lengths and eaten with a fork. What do we eat French […]

What happens to your body after 3 days of fasting? In this paper, Longo and colleagues described remarkable metabolic changes that occurred as a result of prolonged fasting. They found that fasting for 3 days or longer–drinking only water and eating less than 200 calories per day–can truly “reset” some components of your immune system. […]

What color is eggplant in paint? Rich, powerful and dramatic this shade of purple has a undertone of black. Eggplant is a dark purple or brownish-purple color that resembles the color of the outer skin of European eggplants. Another name for the color eggplant is aubergine (the French and British English word for eggplant). What […]