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The square academic cap, graduate cap, cap, mortarboard[1] (because of its similarity in appearance to the mortarboard used by brickmasons to hold mortar [2]) or Oxford cap[3] is an item of academic dress consisting of a horizontal square board fixed upon a skull-cap, with a tassel attached to the centre. In the UK and the US, it is commonly ...
Chelsea Clinton's cat Socks (1989–2009) lived in the White House from 1993 to 2001. Socks was a bicolour cat with low-grade spotting, or tuxedo cat.. A bicolor cat (also bi-colour cat, or a more specific term such as black-and-white cat, or a Tuxedo Cat) is a cat with white fur combined with fur of some other colour, for example solid black, tabby, or colourpointed. [1]
Through 2010, Texas A&M has been 7-6 in Maroon Out games, beating 6 teams ranked in the Top 25, despite being the underdog in each of the games. The basketball team has a similar tradition, called a "White Out," where fans are encouraged to wear white T-shirts. [76] Perhaps the most memorable Maroon Out moment was not maroon at all.
Snack or dessert. Black-and-white cookies, half-and-half cookies, and half-moon cookies are similar round cookies iced or frosted in two colors, with one half vanilla and the other chocolate. They are found in the Northeastern United States and Florida. Black-and-white cookies are flat, have fondant or sometimes royal icing on a dense cake base ...
Louis Wain. Louis William Wain (5 August 1860 – 4 July 1939) was an English artist best known for his drawings of anthropomorphised cats and kittens. Wain was born in Clerkenwell, London. In 1881 he sold his first drawing and the following year gave up his teaching position at the West London School of Art to become a full-time illustrator.
Black and white cookie Half-Moon cookie: United States (New York City; Utica, New York) Iced on one half with vanilla and on the other with chocolate as to resemble a half moon. Boortsog boorsoq, or bawyrsak: Central Asia: Made by deep-frying small pieces of a flattened dough. Often eaten as a dessert, with sugar, butter, or honey.
Oreo (/ ˈ ɔːr i oʊ /; stylized in all caps) is a brand of sandwich cookie consisting of two cocoa biscuits or cookie pieces with a sweet fondant [3] filling. It was introduced by Nabisco on March 6, 1912, [4] and through a series of corporate acquisitions, mergers, and splits, both Nabisco and the Oreo brand have been owned by Mondelez International since 2012. [5]
That was the case for Kroshik, a Russian cat found living in the basement of a hospital who was surviving on a diet of cookies and soup. Kroshik, which translates to “Crumbs,” weighed a ...