Wolmania - Friday, April 29, 2022

Good morning. Extremely loose theme today, if you squint at curry and see a living thing. Let's go.

Item 1: a link

The Curious Case of Colonial India's Breakfast Curries

Even as the British Empire appropriated curry, authentic versions conquered local officials' tables.

See also: The Subversive, Surprising History of Curry Powder.

Item 2: a list

Biological Kingdoms, ranked:

1. Fungi
2. Animalia
3. Plantae
4. Chromista
5. Protozoa
6. Archaea
7. Bacteria

• (Superkingdoms, ranked: 1. Eukaryota; 2. Prokaryota)

Item 3: a media recommendation

The Eagle by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

He clasps the crag with crooked hands;

Close to the sun in lonely lands,

Ring'd with the azure world, he stands.

The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;

He watches from his mountain walls,

And like a thunderbolt he falls.

Item 4: a photograph

See ya!

Thanks for reading. See you next week!