In an 1913 advertisement for a Kenyan clothing outfitter one item is referred to as a Cholera belt. What is it
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The cholera belt was an article of clothing commonly worn as a preventative measure by British soldiers serving in India, where cholera was endemic. Basically a waistband or cummerbund made of flannel or silk, the belt was supposed to keep away the cold and damp, the theory being that a chilled abdomen would lead to cholera, dysentery, diarrhea, and other gastrointestinal ailments. Doctors realized fairly early on that cholera had little to do with cold and damp and was in fact caused by fecal bacteria in drinking water. But military inertia being what it was, use of the belt persisted until after World War II.
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You were out taking a walk and found it sticking to your washing machine.  Where you from?\n\nSounds like polished magnetite.  They sell them in rock shops and novelty shops.
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Uganda is called Pearl Of Africa\n\nthat was how Winston Churchill, moved by Uganda's great beauty, declared it when he visited in 1907.
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I can't think of any others myself, but if you can get ahold of the book "Alphabetical Africa" by Walter Abish, it should be able to help you.  It's a crazy book with entire chapters written made up of words just using these letters.  Hard to find, but check some libraries, they might be able to borrow it from somewhere for you.
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dunno wat u r looking for, but 'isstre' in my language (kannada) means to iron clothes.
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it is called the "buah merah", the indonesian for "red fruit". it was officially invented as the medicine for AIDS.\nthe buah merah is found in the Papua wilderness. the people in Papua ate it to increase their immune system in the wild and so they can struggle. the latest invention in Beijing, China, two weeks ago found that buah merah can not only cure AIDS but also cancers.
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Claim:   Kotex  \nwere first manufactured as bandages during World War I. \n\nStatus:   True. \n\nOrigins:   Though no soldiers were charging about the battlefield with sanitary napkins tied to their arms, a new type of material which had proved so effective as bandages in that conflict was years later revamped into Kotex. What was invented to meet a critical need in a war soon afterwards found a valuable peacetime use. \n\nKotex is a product of the Kimberly-Clark company. In 1914 this (then) conservative supplier of paper developed an absorbent wadding from processed wood and dubbed it Cellucotton. Five times as absorbent as cotton and costing only half as much, Cellucotton was used to bandage wounds in World War I. (Kimberly-Clark agreed to provide it to the War Department at cost, refusing the chance to make a healthy profit.) \n\nAfter the war (1919), Kimberly-Clark faced the question of what to do with Cellucotton. The company hit upon the notion of marketing disposable sanitary napkins. Prior to this invention, women used and reused cloth rags -- this was indeed groundbreaking stuff. \n\nThe resulting product was first marketed as Cellunap, a contraction of "Cellucotton napkins." Immediately upon hire, Kimberly-Clark's first marketing agency (Charles F.W. Nichols Company) suggested changing the name to Kotex, short for "cotton textile". \n\nThough there were still battles to be waged in getting magazines to accept ads for this product, stores to stock it, and women to buy it, by 1945 nearly all American women were using commercially-made pads and tampons. (Tampax came on the market in 1936.) The days of the cloth rags were over.
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I was gonna make a joke... but what if you're really in dire need for one! =0 Sooooo a chastity belt is a locking item of clothing designed to prevent sexual intercourse and possibly masturbation. The purpose may also be to protect the wearer from rape or temptation. Devices have been created for males and females.
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Language: Old English\nOrigin: belg 'bag, skin'
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You might be refering to this:\n\nhttp://textileinfo.com/en/tech/imada/kennrou/page08.html\n\nMore on the subject can be found with a web search.
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WorldRugbyShop.com had the Namibia shirt a few months ago. You might want to see if they are getting more
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I am not sure what you are asking.\n\nChristianity is much older than the modern necktie.
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You might be able to find it at a pharmacy. A chemical supply shop, or an older style apothecary or chemist type shop might have it. Searching for its chemical name (potassium nitrate) might also help.\nAside from these, the only other source I know  of  is the underside of a dung heap.
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Directly connected. The original fabric was made in the Kashmiri region and was adopted around the world by fashionistas. Look in the dictionary and it should tell you.
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"The Rag" comes from the fact that before tampons and maxipads were invented, women would wear a common dish rag under their dresses to trap the escaping blood flow.\n\nThis has been done for THOUSANDS of years, and in many parts of the world is still done this way.\n\nAs recent as the early 1900's women would wear a type of 'belt' which worked on the same concept.\n\nThe result had to have been dirty, messy, and totally undesireable... thank goodness for modern science eh?
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John Snow.  He is famous for tracing a cholera epidemic to the Broad Street Pump, which he then broke the handle off.\nFor more information:\nhttp://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/snow.html
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Ancient people cleaned their clothes by pounding them on rocks or rubbing them with abrasive sands; and washing the dirt away in local streams. Evidence of ancient washing soap was found at Sapo Hill in Rome, where the ashes containing the fat of sacrificial animals was used as a soap. \n\nThe earliest washing "machine" was the scrub board invented in 1797. American, James King patented the first washing machine to use a drum in 1851, the drum made King's machine resemble a modern machine, however it was still hand powered. \n\nIn 1858, Hamilton Smith patented the rotary washing machine. \n\nIn 1874, William Blackstone of Indiana built a birthday present for his wife. It was a machine which removed and washed away dirt from clothes. The first washing machines designed for use in the home. \n\nThe first electric-powered washing machine (the Thor) was introduced in 1908, by the Hurley Machine Company of Chicago, Illinois. Alva J. Fisher was the inventor. The machine was a drum type with a galvanized tub and an electric motor, for which a patent was issued on Aug. 9, 1910 (US patent #966677 - see patent drawing left). \n\nNow, a little history on a few famous washing machine companies.... \n\nThe Maytag Corporation began in 1893 when F.L. Maytag began manufacturing farm implements in Newton, Iowa. Business was slow in winter, so to add to his line of products he introduced a wooden-tub washing machine in 1907. Maytag soon devoted himself full-time to the washing machine business. \n\nThe Whirlpool Corporation started in 1911 as the Upton Machine Co., founded in St. Joseph, Michigan, to produce electric motor-driven wringer washers. \n\nThe origins of the Schulthess Group goes back over 150 years. Here are some highlights that involve washing machine history: \n\n1904 - Production of the first washing machines.\n1949 - Invention of punched card control for washing machines\n1951- Production of Europe's first automatic washing machines\n1978 - Launch of first microchip-controlled automatic washing machines