https://www.austinchronicle.com/columns/2002-08-30/101230/
Looking at food labels? Tuscan olive oil can mean the olives were grown in Greece but pressed in Italy.
Small feet were considered desirable among women in 10th-century China. Exotic dancers at the Imperial Court often had their feet bound with bandages from childhood onward, in such a way to make them grow shorter. The most esteemed foot was a "Golden Lotus," a foot measuring three inches.
Song of the South is the only Disney film not re-released.
The name "Samwise" (Samwise Gamgee, loyal companion to Frodo Baggins in J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings) is from the Anglo-Saxon and means "half-wit."
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