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I think of a scion as the young descendant of some noble family. I was curious about its origin and I looked up the etymology, and it says “c. 1300, “a shoot or twig,” especially one for grafting, from Old French sion, cion “descendant; shoot, twig; offspring” The second meaning in the figurative sense that I know the…

USA As reported in Courthous News Service on February 16th, on February 9th the Chevron refinery in the East Bay city of Richmond, California, discovered a pipeline leak that oozed about 700 gallons of a substance described by Chevron as ‘a mixture of recovered oil and gasoline’, ‘petroleum and water mixture’ and ‘hydrocarbons.’ The refinery…

According to SNOPES fact checking, President Trump made a comment about George Floyd in the White House Rose Garden during a discussion about U.S. job numbers in May. He went off topic and said: Equal justice under the law must mean that every American receives equal treatment in every encounter with law enforcement regardless of…

It all starts with borrowed money. If people only risked their own money then margin calls would not exist. When the investor borrows money to invest and the investment falls in value, then the lender’s loan is at risk and the lender acts to protect it. A margin is the amount of liquid assets (cash)…

There is a story that when Moses went in front of Pharaoh to ask that his people be let free, he showed them a piece of magic. Pharaoh’s magicians replied that they had many tricks like that and Moses should show his tricks in some more provincial place where people were easily amazed. Moses replied…

The forested landscape of Finland is dotted with patches of water so numerous that Finland is known as the land of a thousand lakes. To be more exact, there are 188,000 lakes in Finland.