Bullshit (also bullcrap) is a common English expletive which may be shortened to the euphemism bull or the initialism BS. In British English, "bollocks" is a comparable expletive, although "bullshit" is more common. It is a slang profanity term meaning "nonsense", especially in a rebuking response to communication or actions viewed as deceiving, misleading, disingenuous, or false. As with many expletives, the term can be used as an interjection or as many other parts of speech, and can carry a wide variety of meanings. It can be used either as a noun or as a verb. While the word is ge...

Traditioneel is een heks volgens het volksgeloof iemand, meestal een vrouw, die in contact treedt met boze machten, waardoor zij/hij in staat is mensen en dieren te betoveren en hun schade te berokkenen, soms ook hen te genezen. In de regel ligt in het volksgeloof de nadruk op het kwaadaardig handelen van de heks. Moderne hekserij, waarbij mensen zichzelf "heks" noemen, breekt radicaal met dit stereotiepe beeld en benadrukt positieve aspecten als eenheid met de natuur en de gelijkheid van man en vrouw. De begrippen heks en hekserij Vrijwel alle culturen en religies kennen de begrippen ...

In the United States, a wooden nickel is a wooden token coin, usually issued by a merchant or bank as a promotion, sometimes redeemable for a specific item such as a drink. History Wooden nickels were most commonly issued in the U.S. in the 1930s, after the start of the Great Depression. It was during this decade that some banks and chambers of commerce in the United States issued wooden nickels with expiration dates to mitigate difficulties faced by merchants in making change at times of instability. Common views published on the Internet concerning the origin of the wooden nickel ar...