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Name The name comes from Greek (“turn”), a calque of the Turkish name dner kebab (“turning roast”); the dish was formerly called [don’er] in Greece as well. The Greek pronunciation is [iros], but in English, the pronunciation is often /daro(s)/ or occasionally /ro(s)/. Sometimes the spellings “yeeros”, “yiros”, or “year-o” are used to approximate the […]

History Greco-Roman world Further information: List of ancient watermills Model of a Roman water-powered grain-mill described by Vitruvius. The millstone (upper floor) is powered by a undershot waterwheel by the way of a gear mechanism (lower floor) Roman turbine mill at Chemtou, Tunisia. The tangential water inflow of the millrace made the horizontal wheel in […]

Early history Astronauts making and eating hamburgers on board the ISS August 2007. Courtesy of NASA. Russian Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (1975) A tube of borscht from the Soviet space program The astronauts of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project received samples of Soviet space food when the combined crew dined together. Among the foods provided by Soyuz […]

In telecommunication, an automatic callback is a computer telephony calling feature that permits a user, when encountering a busy condition or other condition where the called individual is unavailable, to instruct the system to retain the called number and to establish the call when there is an available line or when the called number is […]