The Kansas Wheat company, in the midst of the Great Depression, realized that the poorest families were reusing their sacks (containing flour and grain) to sew dresses for women and girls, so to make them more captivating they decided to print them with floral and colorful motifs.
The initiative was a huge success: they made sure that the ink used for the logos would fade after a simple wash, and some bags even had the patterns already drawn on the fabric, ready to be cut and sewn.
Actually, during the Roman era, the moon made more sense than torches. Some of those roads would be in the sticks.
Although, not all Roman roads had those cats eyes (in fact, probably not most of them).
Roman roads that were considered "great", i.e. connecting important places & usually recognisable by being named after someone (like the Appian Way), had an 'Aedile', a person to make sure manure, human waste & co would be reasonably in check.
Another wonderful dish from #PlantBasedIndia. No pic, unfortunately - I am cooking later and it is too dark and too hurried for pics.
So Marcha nu Shak, Capsicums in a peanut-sesame-chickpea crumble. Oh my! First a mix of well-crushed peanuts, whole sesame seeds and chickpea flour is toasted till darken. Then bite-sized capsicum pieces are sauteed until soft and browning. Finally spices and the peanut mixture is added with a little water so that it clumps and becomes like a crumble.
Less conquest = less slaves. Without the continuous input of new humans that can be worked for free, a lot (but not all) big farms had to subdivide into smaller, Roman Farmer run parcels.
But some persisted & the concept itself was still a thing in Italy until the 1950s!
Yes, they never managed to produce enough grain without Egyptian import. I'm not an expert on Roman agriculture management however, so you might know more!
Male-defaultism in #archaeology is bloody annoying.
Just because someone draws a #hunting scene in a #cave, doesn't mean it was a man doing so or depicting one.
Every #archer grave from the Bell Beaker Era MUST be #male because even when they find #female additions, that just means she is related to a great man or the male lost status (of course).
Archaeologist Randy Haas just assumed he found a male big game hunter in Peru in 2013. Except he didn't.
The Bugis are Muslim, but their belief is strongly influenced by their ancestral #religion.
One #belief centres around the Monitor lizard. The animal is believed to have a human #soul & to be the twin of children. They are treated with respect.
Bugis also categorize people into 5 genders. Each is needed to keep the universe in balance.
Bissu, the #gender which is neither man nor woman, is the intermediary between humans & #gods.
The building style of the Bugis reflects their belief system.
The gods live below & above, so the first floor represents those below (simple & earthen, but also the foundation) and the second floor represents the sky gods (mighty and beautiful, but also far away).
Both gods made humans to settle the formerly empty middle.