Salade niçoise (French pronunciation: ​[saˈlad niˈswaz]), salada nissarda in the Niçard dialect of the Occitan language, insalata nizzarda in Italian, is a salad that originated in the French city of Nice. It is traditionally made of tomatoes, hard-boiled eggs, Niçoise olives and anchovies or tuna, dressed with olive oil, or in some historical versions, a vinaigrette. It has been popular worldwide since the early 20th century, and has been prepared and discussed by many chefs. Delia Smith called it "one of the best combinations of salad ingredients ever invented" and Gordon Ramsay said that "it...

I live in Ekaterinburg, Russia. As of 2019, I'm a freelance translator specializing in biochem, biotech and pharma. My interests include psychiatry and neuroscience. And history of Russia. I love the music of Bob Dylan, Boris Grebenshikov (Aquarium), Frank Zappa, Chumbawamba, Umka and Beethoven's string quartets. I enjoy skiing and jogging, playing tennis. My favourite authors are Solzhenitsyn, Updike, Pelevin, Dostoyevsky, Vonnegut. I participate in the Folding@home project. My last.fm account is here. My Wikimedia page. P.S. Reelin' cookies: If you know a foreign language into which Reelin is...

"Copper Kettle" (also known as "Get you a Copper Kettle", "In the pale moonlight") is a song composed by Albert Frank Beddoe and made popular by Joan Baez. Pete Seeger's account dates the song to 1946, mentioning its probable folk origin, while in a 1962 Time readers column A. F. Beddoe says that the song was written by him in 1953 as part of the folk opera Go Lightly, Stranger. The song praises the good aspects of moonshining as told to the listener by a man whose "daddy made whiskey, and granddaddy did too". The line "We ain't paid no whiskey tax since 1792" alludes to an unpopular tax imposed...

Krakatoa (), also transcribed Krakatau (; Indonesian: Krakatau), is a caldera in the Sunda Strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra in the Indonesian province of Lampung. The caldera is part of a volcanic island group (Krakatoa Archipelago) comprising four islands. Two, Lang and Verlaten, are remnants of a previous volcanic edifice destroyed in eruptions long before the famous 1883 eruption; another, Rakata, is the remnant of a much larger island destroyed in the 1883 eruption. In 1927, a fourth island, Anak Krakatau, or "Child of Krakatoa", emerged from the caldera formed in 1883. There...