The Bolita bean is an heirloom variety of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) endemic to New Mexico and southern Colorado.  It is a small, round, and sweet bean that is traditional to New Mexican and southwestern cuisine.  The name Bolita bean comes from New Mexican Spanish where they are called frijol bolita, literally "little ball bean", due to their shape and size.   The origins of the common bean have long been a topic of scholarly debate, with Mesoamerica being proposed as a possible origin of domestication.  This notion is, however, clouded by a lack of consensus among experts, who remain divided over whether the common bean arose from single or multiple domestication events.  It has been noted that two distinct gene pools emerged over time, namely the Andean gene pool, which spanned Southern Peru to Northwest Argentina, and the Mesoamerican gene pool, which extended between Mexico and Colombia.  Thank you, reader.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolita_bean   

A randoseru (ランドセル) is a firm-sided backpack made of stitched firm leather or leather-like synthetic material, most commonly used in Japan by elementary schoolchildren.  Traditionally it is given to a child upon beginning their first year of school, whereupon the child uses the same bag until grade 6.  The term is borrowed from the Dutch ransel or German Ranzen meaning "backpack".  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randoseru   

broadbrow (BRAHD-brow)  noun  A person with a broad range of interests.  adjective:  Appealing to people with a broad range of interests.  [Coined by J.B. Priestley (1894-1984), from broad + brow, on the pattern  of highbrow and lowbrow.  Earliest documented use:  1924.  Also see middlebrow.  https://wordsmith.org/words/middlebrow.html    

A ketch is a two-masted sailboat whose mainmast is taller than the mizzen mast (or aft-mast), and whose mizzen mast is stepped forward of the rudder post.  The mizzen mast stepped forward of the rudder post is what distinguishes the ketch from a yawl, which has its mizzen mast stepped aft of its rudder post.  In the 19th and 20th centuries, ketch rigs were often employed on larger yachts and working watercraft, but ketches are also used as smaller working watercraft as short as 15 feet, or as small cruising boats, such as Bill Hanna's Tahiti ketches or L. Francis Herreshoff's Rozinante and H-28.  The name ketch is derived from catch.  The ketch's main mast is usually stepped further forward than the position found on a sloop.  The sail plan of a ketch is similar to that of a yawl, on which the mizzen mast is smaller and set further back.  There are versions of the ketch rig that only have a mainsail and a mizzen, in which case they are referred to as cat ketch.  More commonly ketches have headsails (Jibs).  When a ketch is rigged so that it can fly multiple jibs at the same time, the rig is sometimes referred to as a multi-headsail ketch.  While sometimes seen in print, it is incorrect to refer to this rig by the modern malaprop of a cutter ketch.  In New England in the 1600s, the ketch was a small coastal working watercraft.  In the 1700s, it disappeared from contemporary records, apparently replaced by the schooner.  The ketch rig remained popular in America throughout the 19th and early 20th century working watercraft, with well-known examples being the Chesapeake Bay bugeyes, New Haven sharpies, and the Kingston Lobster boats.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketch    

Goof in the 1941 film Ball of Fire starring Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck:  A cop on the Washington Bridge checkpoint says that a professor's driving license was issued in 1903.  Driving licenses have existed in the USA only since 1910.   

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