shrubbery's New Writeupshttp://everything2.com/?node=New%20Writeups%20Atom%20Feed&foruser=shrubbery2003-01-07T18:46:00ZWolfe Tones (person)http://everything2.com/user/shrubbery/writeups/Wolfe+Tonesshrubberyhttp://everything2.com/user/shrubbery2003-01-07T18:46:00Z2003-01-07T18:46:00ZArguably, the most successful <a href="/title/Irish+folk+band">Irish folk band</a> for the last 40 years. Their blend of great talent, catchy renditions, original songs, and geniune love of the music have given them a timeless quality.<p>
The biggest issue with the Wolfe Tones are their decidedly <a href="/title/Republican">Republican</a> view in the long, drawn out political and military issue known in <a href="/title/Ireland">Ireland</a> as <a href="/title/The+Troubles">The Troubles</a>. It is also the reason why many a times their music isn't played much in their homeland and is sometimes conveniently forgotten in the annals of <a href="/title/Irish+folk+music">Irish folk music</a>. This is the well known and complicated division between the dominant <a href="/title/Protestants">Protestants</a> and the minority <a href="/title/Catholics">Catholics</a> in the north. The Republicans want a unified Ireland whereas the <a href="/title/Unionists">Unionists</a> rather would have the current setup of a Northern Ireland united with the <a href="/title/United+Kingdom">United Kingdom</a> (though, catholics and protestants don't always fall into these two categories exactly). The Tones are not shy about how they feel, as many of the songs they sing and many they wrote illustrate and<!-- close unclosed tag --></p>…Chinese food (thing)http://everything2.com/user/shrubbery/writeups/Chinese+foodshrubberyhttp://everything2.com/user/shrubbery2003-01-07T00:55:50Z2003-01-07T00:55:50ZFood from <a href="/title/China">China</a> (duh).<p>
What's interesting to note is there are many, many regions within China that each has its own different style and types of food. China herself is a huge, huge country with an extremely long history and has therefore much varied types of <a href="/title/cuisine">cuisine</a>. The main difference between food within China and many other ancient countries such as <a href="/title/India">India</a> is there is no restriction in the type of animals or plants used. There is an old Chinese saying: "Whatever flies the sky and walks the earth, it all may be eaten." (and swims too, <a href="/title/seafood">seafood</a> is a very important part of Chinese cuisine as well).<p>
My own experience is I am a <a href="/title/third+generation">third generation</a> <a href="/title/American">American</a> brought up in an old fashioned Chinese household. The dishes my mother makes are very traditional and some are not even found in restaurants. The region my family is from is <a href="/title/Taishan">Taishan</a>, a region within <a href="/title/Guangdong">Guangdong</a> province (Also spelled <a href="/title/Canton">Canton</a> in the old form of Chinese/English conversion). The <a href="/title/Cantonese">Cantonese</a> are the most visible<!-- close unclosed tag --></p><!-- close unclosed tag --></p>…Kip (idea)http://everything2.com/user/shrubbery/writeups/Kipshrubberyhttp://everything2.com/user/shrubbery2002-12-19T18:58:20Z2002-12-19T18:58:20ZSlang word used in the <a href="/title/UK">UK</a> and <a href="/title/Ireland">Ireland</a> meaning a dirty or rundown place.<p>
"Jaysus, da local is a feckin' kip if I ever saw one."<p>
Also used as a slang word in the same regions as a nap or sleep.<p>
"Right so, I'm off fora kip. See yiz."<p>
Above examples using possibly a <a href="/title/Dubliner">Dubliner</a>.<!-- close unclosed tag --></p><!-- close unclosed tag --></p><!-- close unclosed tag --></p><!-- close unclosed tag --></p>Audi (thing)http://everything2.com/user/shrubbery/writeups/Audishrubberyhttp://everything2.com/user/shrubbery2002-12-19T17:12:12Z2002-12-19T17:12:12ZSecond largest subsidiary of the German Volkswagen-Audi Gruppe (VAG) besides <a href="/title/Volkswagen">Volkswagen</a> that produces luxury mass-production cars.<p>
Audi has a history that reaches as far back as <a href="/title/Mercedes+Benz">Mercedes Benz</a>. August Horch (1868 - 1951) founded A Horch & Cie in Germany on November, 1899. He had a dispute with the shareholders by 1910 and left the company to found a new car company Audi, the latin translation of his surname which means "to listen."<p>
Fast forward to 1932 and the <a href="/title/Great+Depression">Great Depression</a> had left many of the car manufacturers struggling. Audi formed with three other German manufacturers to form the Auto Union. The Audi company merged with its former company Horch, Wanderer, and DKW using four interlocking rings as its new symbol still seen today on the roads.<p>
The roaring thirties would be known as the Golden Age of automobile racing. The first Grand Prix's of this age were the predecessor to such grand races as <a href="/title/Formula+One">Formula One</a>. Hitler, in his bid for Germany to become the greatest automobile<!-- close unclosed tag --></p><!-- close unclosed tag --></p><!-- close unclosed tag --></p>…