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...getting text messages from my teammates asking how it was going. They even spelled Rhodes wrong; they spelled it "Roads." Again, they had no idea, but they were just so supportive. When I got to the game after winning, they dumped water on me in a cold ice bath in 20 degree weather at Maryland, just to express their joy. It meant...
...Leftovers have been a part of human eating culture since ancient man realized the fruits of a hunt would stay edible for a while if they were stored in the back of a cold, dark cave. Ancient Greeks and Romans hauled ice and snow down from the mountains, wrapped it in straw or buried it in cellars where it slowed down food spoilage, although "leftovers" back then were more along the lines of fall harvest foods that could be stored and eaten when sustenance was scarce...
...19th century, ice delivery men visited American homes as regularly as milk men, depositing large cubes into ice boxes made of wood and often lined with tin. According to Dupont, which later invented the coolant Freon, ice was harvested where it formed naturally - including from New York City's rivers - and shipped to the South, all in the name of food storage. In the 1840s, a Florida physician named John Gorrie, trying to cool the rooms where patients were suffering from yellow fever, figured out how to make ice using mechanical refrigeration, paving the way for household refrigerators that appeared...
...cram so much activity into a day that you forget to enjoy some quiet time together - after all, this is a real relationship, not pure fantasy. "After three days and nights of going out, I think both of us start craving a night at home with a pint of ice cream and a good DVD," says West...
...Harris had his right knee completely covered in ice after the game...