enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Mug - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mug

    A mug made on a potter's wheel in the Late Neolithic Period (c. 2500 –2000 BCE) in Zhengzhou, China. Though today mugs are associated with hot drinks, milk and soft drinks, many early mugs appear to have been mostly used for beer or other alcoholic drinks, and were often larger than modern mugs.

  3. Toby Jug - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toby_Jug

    There are competing theories for the origin of the name "Toby Jug". [4] Although it has been suggested that the pot is named after Sir Toby Belch in Shakespeare's play Twelfth Night, or Uncle Toby in Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy, the most widely accepted theory is that the original was a Yorkshireman, Henry Elwes, 'famous for drinking 2,000 gallons of strong stingo beer from his silver ...

  4. Cup - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cup

    Mugs are informal and usually sold individually; mug holds more liquid than the cup, as the latter is used in a close proximity of a teapot anyhow. Since limiting the area of the exposed surface of the liquid helps keeping the temperature, this increase in volume is achieved through mug being taller, while tapered cups are lower for stability.

  5. Coffee cup - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee_cup

    As the drip coffee, invented in France in the 18th century, gained popularity, the need for tall cups disappeared, so Sèvres porcelain pioneered shorter cups. [2]: 232 Handles first appeared on the Meissen tall cups in the 1710s (some Oriental cups had handles, but these were made from silver). Handles became common by the 1730s.

  6. Pythagorean cup - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagorean_cup

    Cross section of a ceramic Pythagorean cup. A Pythagorean cup (also known as a Pythagoras cup, Greedy Cup, Cup of Justice or Tantalus cup) is a practical joke device in a form of a drinking cup, credited to Pythagoras of Samos.

  7. AOL Video - Serving the best video content from AOL and ...

    www.aol.com/video/view/these-commonly-used-words...

    The AOL.com video experience serves up the best video content from AOL and around the web, curating informative and entertaining snackable videos.

  8. Glass bottle - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_bottle

    The first glass bottles were produced in Mesopotamia around 1500 B.C., and in the Roman Empire in around 1 AD. [1] America's glass bottle and glass jar industry was born in the early 1600s, when settlers in Jamestown built the first glass-melting furnace.

  9. Moustache cup - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moustache_cup

    A multiplicity of moustache cups were made by famous manufactories such as Meissen, Royal Crown Derby, Imari, Royal Bayreuth, Limoges and others. [8] Each potter created his own version of this masculine tableware and the news of that invention soon spread to America.