You can only try pohovana piletina in two places.  One is Vojvodina, Serbia, where the unique style of fried chicken was born.  The other is Ohio, where “Barberton-style fried chicken,” as it’s known there, became one town’s claim to fame.  What started as a comforting meal for an immigrant family came to define a community, turning a humble Ohio town into the “Fried Chicken Capital of the World.”  Luke Fater  https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/where-is-best-fried-chicken#:~:text=What%20started%20as%20a%20comforting,Barberton%20in%20the%20early%201900s. 

Mount Parnassus, also Parnassos, is a mountain of limestone in central Greece.  It is north of the Gulf of Corinth.  According to Greek mythology, this mountain was sacred to Apollo and the home of the Muses.  Mount Parnassus is named after Parnassos, the son of the nymph Kleodora and the man Kleopompus. Parnassos was leader of a city that was flooded by rains.  The people ran from the flood up the mountain slope.  There the survivors built another city and called it Lykoreia.  According to some traditions, Mount Parnassus was the site of the fountain Castalia and the home of the Muses.  As the home of the Muses, Mount Parnassus became known as the home of poetry, music, and learning.  Parnassus is mined for its large supply of bauxite.  The bauxite is converted to aluminium oxide and then to aluminium.   https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Parnassus  Liakoura is the modern name of Parnassus. 

AUDIO RECORDING  Views of the mysterious hill the appearance of Parnassus in American poetry  A lecture delivered by Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry Mark Strand.  https://www.loc.gov/collections/archive-of-recorded-poetry-and-literature/?fa=subject:history+and+criticism%7Csubject:parnassus,+mount+%28greece%29 

A lead-pipe cinch is a sure thing, a certainty.  Lead-pipe cinch may also refer to something that is easy to accomplish.  The origins of the term lead-pipe cinch are in great dispute, with many apocryphal stories attached to the term.  We do know that a cinch is the band or strap on a saddle that goes across the belly of the horse and is tightened to keep the saddle in place.  A tight cinch means a safe and secure saddle.  There has been much speculation as to the meaning of the word lead-pipe in this phrase.  Sometimes the simplest explanation is the best one, and the word lead-pipe may have been chosen for this term simply because it may be thought of in a figurative sense as solid and reliable.  Note that lead-pipe is properly rendered with a hyphen in the phrase lead-pipe cinch.  https://grammarist.com/idiom/lead-pipe-cinch/#:~:text=A%20lead%2Dpipe%20cinch%20is,stories%20attached%20to%20the%20term. 

“Where the crawdad sings” means far in the bush where critters are still wild, still behaving like critters.  *  Living in a floodplain is just waiting in the river’s wings.  *  The Gulf Stream gushes four billion cubic feet of water every second, more power than all the land rivers on Earth combined.  Where the Crawdad Sings, a novel by Delia Owens 

Delia Owens is the co-author of three internationally bestselling nonfiction books about her life as a wildlife scientist in Africa including Cry of the Kalahari.  She has won the John Burroughs Award for Nature Writing and has been published in Nature, The African Journal of Ecology, and many others.  She currently lives in Idaho.  Where the Crawdads Sing is her first novel.  https://www.deliaowens.com/about-the-author  See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delia_Owens and https://bookpage.com/interviews/22927-delia-owens-fiction#.XzAagyhKiUk 

Both canola and rapeseed belong to the cabbage or mustard family.  The plants’ flowers both have that characteristic bright yellow color, and you get oil from both of the seeds by crushing the plants.  That said, they have a couple key genetic differences.  Rapeseed oil and canola oil also get mixed up because they can be labeled incorrectly outside of Canada and the United States.  In the 1970s canola was created through traditional plant cross-breeding by removing two things found in the rapeseed plant:  glucosinolates and erucic acid.  Erucic acid was removed because it was believed to be inedible or toxic in high doses.  The newly developed plant was renamed “canola”--a combination of “Canadian” and “Oil” (or ola) to make this difference apparent.  By definition, if a seed is labeled “canola” it has to have less than 30 micromoles of glucosinolates and less than 2% of erucic acid.  Ariel Knutson  https://www.thekitchn.com/whats-the-difference-between-canola-and-rapeseed-206047  See also https://www.consumerreports.org/cooking-oil/choose-a-healthy-oil-for-cooking/ 

parage  noun  1  historical  Lineage, descent, or rank; especially noble or high lineage.  Also:  the qualities of courtesy, generosity, etc., held to be proper to a person of noble lineage.  2  Law  A system of land tenure under which a fief is divided among brothers, the younger brothers holding from the eldest by right of equality, and the eldest rendering fealty to the lord in respect of the whole fief.  Middle English; earliest use found in Body and Soul.  From Anglo-Norman parage, perage and Old French, Middle French, French parage (noble) descent, equality of conditions among brothers in spite of the unequal division of inheritance, tenure of a fief shared by brothers under which the fief is not divided with respect to the lord from pair equal + -age.  https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/parage 

redux (adj.)  "restored, brought back," Latin, from reducere (see reduce).  In book titles at least since 1662 (Dryden, "Astraea Redux," written on the restoration of Charles II).  https://www.etymonline.com/word/redux  See also Pop Music Redux at http://sciencenetlinks.com/science-news/science-updates/pop-music-redux/ 

A rhombus is a flat shape with 4 equal straight sides.  Some people call it a rhomb or even a diamond.  The plural is rhombi or rhombuses, and, rarely, rhombbi or rhombbuses (with a double b).  The name "rhombus" comes from the Greek word rhombos:  a piece of wood whirled on a string to make a roaring noise.  A square is a rhombus where the angles are all right angles.https://www.mathsisfun.com/geometry/rhombus.html 

vail  (intransitive, obsolete)  To pay homage, bow, sumit, defer; to yield, give way  (transitive, obsolete)  To lower, let fall; to allow or cause to sink; to remove as a sign of deference, as a hat, submission. https://etymologeek.com/eng/vail/38076454 

Unprecedented fires have burned some 4.5m acres and smoke has made west coast air quality among the worst in the world.  Smoke from wildfires in the western US has drifted as far east as New York and Washington DC, with residents there observing hazy skies and unusual sunrises.  Skies above the US capital have taken on a hazy din.  See pictures at https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/15/west-coast-wildfires-smoke-new-york-washington-dc

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