Word: mayan
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...perhaps the world's most revered, the stogie probably didn't originate on the island. Cigar smoking first took hold elsewhere in the Americas-exactly where and when remains uncertain. A ceramic pot discovered in Guatemala that dates at least as far back as the 10th century depicts a Mayan puffing on tobacco leaves bound up with string. (The Mayans may also have handed down the object's name: their term for smoking, sikar, likely led to the Spanish cigarro, from which the cigar takes its name.) When Columbus stumbled upon the Americas in 1492, he also discovered tobacco...
Darnton relies on gentle satire to evoke the many ironies in newspapering and even his seemingly throwaway descriptions of news situations ring utterly true. The ancient pressroom at City Hall looks like "a crowded Mayan ruin littered with the detritus of tourists." The relentless questions rained on a journalist writing a page-one story on deadline is an experience "like getting nibbled to death by ducks...
...Morley traveled to Central America to conduct archaeology fieldwork in Mayan ruins. Later in life, he directed the reconstruction of Chichén Itz?...
...recent trip to Mexico, I took a day tour of Mayan villages. The nine young Swiss, Americans and New Zealanders on the tour engaged fully with the guide, looking, listening, and asking questions. The five young Britons hung back, loudly and boorishly swapping notes about where to get cheap booze and which drinking places had the best happy hours. Last year, at home in New Zealand, I gave a ride to a twentysomething English hitchhiker whose only "travel stories" of his time in Australia and New Zealand were a monotonous succession of boasts about how often and heavily...
...weather. Still, designers did their best to give coats a grand, new twist, whether they were supersized shearlings like the one that opened Dolce & Gabbana's rock 'n' roll-inspired show or the exotic, Tibetan-inspired poncho shearling and paisley embroidered coats at Alexander McQueen's Mongolian-meets-Mayan show. Meanwhile, Frida Gianinni took the Gucci man on an exotic trip to post-revolutionary Russia, returning with some pretty extravagant greatcoats festooned with Cossack-inspired embroideries and fur-and-velvet trim. Even the traditional pea coat and overcoat were revamped in supersized proportions at houses like Bottega Veneta and Ferragamo...