A handful of words form half rhymes with orange (using the latter half of the word), including hinge, cringe, and impinge.  However, sporange, the botanical structure that creates spores, is an existing word that forms a near-perfect rhyme with orange.  https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/what-rhymes-with-orange  A proper noun that rhymes with orange is Blorenge--the name of a mountain in Southeast Wales. 

Tips and Tricks for Cooking Barley  Soak overnight as you would legumes.  This is optional but can help speed up the cooking time.  Rinse before cooking to wash away any debris and excess starch.  Try cooking it with vegetable broth instead of water for extra flavor.  Add 1½ cup liquid to ½ cup barley.  Drain any excess water after cooking and allow it to rest for 15 minutes in the pot, covered.  This allows it to steam and absorb any remaining liquid.  Fluff as you would rice for the perfect texture.  One cup of raw barley yields three cups of cooked barley.  Jhanelle Golding  https://www.fromthecomfortofmybowl.com/how-to-cook-barley/  

duke  noun  (in Continental Europe) the male ruler of a duchy; the sovereign of a small state.  a British nobleman holding the highest hereditary title outside the royal family, ranking immediately below a prince and above a marquis; a member of the highest rank of the British peerage.  a nobleman of corresponding rank in certain other countries.  a cultivated hybrid of the sweet and sour cherry.  Slang. fists; hands:  Put up your dukes.

duke  verb (used with object), duked, duk·ing.  Slang. to hit or thrash with the fists (sometimes followed by out)  https://www.dictionary.com/browse/duke--it--out  

On April 1st, 1819, London journal The New Monthly Magazine published a story called “The Vampyre,” which they attributed to the “mad, bad, and dangerous to know” Lord Byron.  Only it wasn’t written by Bryon—though it had been partly inspired by him, and it had been written at his villa, on the same famous Swiss holiday where Mary Shelley began work on Frankenstein.  “The Vampyre,” which is now generally considered to be the first major work of vampire literature written in English, and which has had a major impact on the nigh-unkillable (ha ha) genre, was in fact written by the physician John Polidori, both inspired by Byron’s own quasi-vampiric tale “A Fragment,” and by Polidori’s newfound hatred of Byron himself, who had just fired him.  Literary Hub March 27, 2023 

Dark Waters is a 2019 American legal thriller film directed by Todd Haynes and written by Mario Correa and Matthew Michael Carnahan.  The story dramatizes Robert Bilott's case against the chemical manufacturing corporation DuPont after they contaminated a town with unregulated chemicals.  It stars Mark Ruffalo as Bilott, along with Anne Hathaway, Tim Robbins, Bill Camp, Victor Garber, Mare Winningham, William Jackson Harper, and Bill Pullman.  The film is based on the 2016 New York Times Magazine article "The Lawyer Who Became DuPont's Worst Nightmare" by Nathaniel Rich.  The story was first told in the 2007 book Stain-Resistant, Nonstick, Waterproof and Lethal: The Hidden Dangers of C8 by Callie Lyons, a Mid-Ohio Valley journalist who covered the controversy as it was unfolding.  Parts of the story were also reported by Mariah Blake, whose 2015 article "Welcome to Beautiful Parkersburg, West Virginia" was a National Magazine Award finalist, and Sharon Lerner, whose series "Bad Chemistry" ran in The Intercept.  Bilott also wrote a memoir, Exposure, detailing his 20-year legal battle against DuPont.  Dark Waters had a limited theatrical release on November 22, 2019, by Focus Features, and went wide on December 6, 2019.  The film received positive reviews from critics and has grossed over $23 million.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Waters_(2019_film)  Thank you, Muse Reader!  

World Book Day, also known as World Book and Copyright Day or International Day of the Book, is an annual event organized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to promote reading, publishing, and copyright.  The first World Book Day was celebrated on 23 April in 1995, and continues to be recognized on that day.  A related event in the United Kingdom and Ireland is observed in March.  On the occasion of World Book and Copyright Day, UNESCO along with the advisory committee from the major sectors of the book industry, select the World Book Capital for one year.  Each designated World Book Capital City carries out a program of activities to celebrate and promote books and reading.  In 2023 Accra, the capital of Ghana was designated as the World Book Capital.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Book_Day  

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