Kolbász is a Hungarian sausage.  Smoked sausages may contain bacon, ground pork, beef, boar or lamb, paprika, salt, garlic, black pepper, allspice, white pepper, caraway, nutmeg, zest, marjoram, cayenne pepper, sugar, white wine or cognac.  The meat is coarsely ground and salted.  If garlic is added, it is mashed in water to produce a slurry and added to the meat along with spices.  The sausage is then stuffed into natural c asings in 1-foot links.  This traditionally took place outside on the fall day when a pig was slaughtered. The sausage is then hung overnight to allow the flavors to meld and some of the grease to drip out.  It is now ready to be used fresh and unsmoked.  Fresh sausages may have additional ingredients like liver, mushroom, bread, rice, lemon juice, eggs, cream or milk.  The unsmoked sausages are typically roasted with sauerkraut or red or green cabbage, and served with mashed potatoes.  The best known and most popular versions are:  "Csabai" - sausage.  The Csabai kolbász is made in the town Békéscsaba.  There are several variations in size and type, but it is a spicy sausage with a lot of paprika.  "Gyulai" - sausage is a different sausage, using different spices.  It is named after the Hungarian town of Gyula.  At the World Exhibition of Food in Brussel 1935, the Gyulai Kolbász was awarded a gold diploma.  The sausage may be cut into thin slices and eaten alone or with bread.  They are also added to many Hungarian dishes including Lecsó and Potato/Egg Casserole (Rakott Krumpli).  "Debreceni Sausage" is usually unsmoked or more mildly smoked, with a strong paprika flavour and used for cooking.  Link to recipe at https://recipes.fandom.com/wiki/Kolb%C3%A1sz 

Walt Whitman and Abraham Lincoln never met, but Whitman, an American poet, greatly admired Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, and was deeply affected upon his assassination, writing several poems as elegies—notably "Hush'd Be the Camps To-Day", "O Captain! My Captain!", "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd", and "This Dust Was Once the Man"—and giving a series of lectures on Lincoln.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_topics/Walt_Whitman_and_Abraham_Lincoln

Traditionally, fried rice was a dish that people cooked to repurpose uneaten rice from the night before.  That’s why most fried rice recipes call for day-old rice.  If you don’t have leftover rice on hand, cook a batch of rice and spread it over plates or a large baking sheet to cool.  Let the rice dry out for an hour or two.  Freshly cooked rice has too much moisture, so it’s not ideal for fried rice.  Lisa Lin  https://healthynibblesandbits.com/kimchi-fried-rice/

Gars are members of the family Lepisosteidae which are the only surviving members of Ginglymodi, an ancient holosteian group of ray-finned fish which first appeared during the Triassic, over 240 million years ago.  Gars comprise seven living species of fish in two genera that inhabit fresh, brackish, and occasionally marine waters of eastern North America, Central America and Cuba in the Caribbean, though extinct members of the family were more widespread.  Gars have elongated bodies that are heavily armored with ganoid scales, and fronted by similarly elongated jaws filled with long, sharp teeth.  Gars are sometimes referred to as "garpike", but are not closely related to pike, which are in the fish family Esocidae.  All of the gars are relatively large fish, but the alligator gar (Atractosteus spatula) is the largest--the alligator gar often grows to a length of over 2 m (6.5 ft) and a weight of over 45 kg (100 lb), and specimens of up to 3 m (9.8 ft) in length have been reported.  Unusually, their vascularised swim bladders can function as lungs, and most gars surface periodically to take a gulp of air.  Gar flesh is edible and the hard skin and scales of gars are used by humans, but gar eggs are highly toxic.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gar  See also https://thefisheriesblog.com/2016/09/06/the-7-wonderful-gar-of-the-world/ 

Bursary awards are part of the Canadian and United Kingdom financial aid programs.  Bursary awards are not repaid, and are used to provide certain students with money to cover gaps between the amount of financial aid a student needs to attend the school and any available government assistance that they are eligible for.  https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/bursary-award.asp 

Sclerocarya birrea (Anacardiaceae) is a popular African wild tree distributed in many African countries where the leaves, stem bark, root and fruits are used in food and traditional medicine; the fruit is rich in ascorbic acid.  The fruit juice contains sesquiterpene hydrocarbon which are terpenes found in plants that are reported to have bacteriostatic properties.  The fruit contains a hard brown seed.  The seed encloses a soft white kernel rich in oil and protein.  The oil contains oleic, palmitic, myristic, and stearic acids; the kernel protein contains amino acids with a predominance of glutamic acid and arginine.  Abdalbasit Mariod and Siddig Abdelwahab  https://www.researchgate.net/publication/241736737_Sclerocarya_birrea_Marula_An_African_Tree_of_Nutritional_and_Medicinal_Uses_A_Review 

Today is Human Rights Day, which is recognized by the United Nations to emphasize the importance of human rights and to commemorate the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the first global enunciation of such rights, on December 10, 1948.  Wiktionary  

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