Paraneoptera

The majority of large cities have "non-partisan" mayoral elections in the US. But most politicians are still going to be members of parties. About 2/3 of the 100 largest cities have mayors affiliated with the Democratic party, since support for Democrats is much stronger in cities than in rural areas. Some states, such as Florida and Texas, have large cities with Republican mayors, but northern cities usually elect mayors who are Democrats. In partisan mayoral elections, the parties hold primaries and voters select the candidate they want their party to endorse. In cities with large Democratic majorities that also hold partisan elections, the primary is functionally more like a general election. So basically different cities function differently, but mayoral candidates are still going to have ideologies that align them with parties, and those ideologies usually have local, not just national, impact. And informed voters will still want to know those ideologies.

Legionella won't make you sick if you drink it, only if you breathe it in. It exists in clean drinkable water all over the world. It's capable of hibernation and able to survive without nutrients for long periods. So it's at least a potential risk any time you breathe aerosolized particles from water that is not hot enough to kill it. Any type of water heater that heats to 60 degrees Celsius will kill it.

This is a great idea if you are the only one using your shower. If you have 4 family members, each of whom likes a different shower temperature, it is less ideal. I think controls that allow separate on/off and hot/cold dimensions are best for most scenarios.

American customary units and imperial units both come from English units, so the US used various inconsistent English and other units in its early days. But the US never used "Imperial" units, which were not codified and put into effect in the British Empire until almost 50 years after the US had gained independence.

Great grandfather's sister's grandson is your second cousin once removed. That guy is the second cousin of one of your parents because they share great grandparents with one of your parents. A grandparent's sibling is a great aunt or great uncle to you. A great grandparent's sibling is a great great uncle or great great aunt to you.

Perhaps the Giant London Flea Market will start a trend: https://www.queenelizabetholympicpark.co.uk/whats-on/giant-london-flea-market

A number of Slavic, Baltic, Norse, (and also Finnic languages like Finnish and Estonian) use some form of this word for market. It originated in Proto-slavic and passed through Old Norse into descendant languages.

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D1%82%D1%8A%D1%80%D0%B3%D1%8A#Old_East_Slavic

The most interesting thing is that the root appears to have borrowed into Finnish twice, once probably from Slavic (as turku) and once from Old Norse (as tori).

It should be "after King Arthur had laid his sword down, he lay in the tall grass, resting" since "lain" is the intransitive participial form and "laid" is the transitive participial form. If he's doing it to a sword he needs the transitive.

It's debated. One source points to the lower end of the scale established as the freezing point of a brine made by dissolving ammonium chloride in water.

This is true. And in communities around the world where suicide is stigmatized, there is heavy pressure on authorities to record deaths as "accidental" rather than suicide. In fact, this is borne out by statistics in which you see higher rates of death attributed to accident in such communities, once you control for other variables. This is especially the case in societies in which there is social shunning of entire families who have lost someone to suicide. The coroner in these communities may worry with good reason about serious mistreatment of families if there is a public record of suicide. It's also not unreasonable to think that this misreporting may play into the gender divide in suicides. If different sexes tend to use different methods, some of these methods are much more ambiguous and easier to record as an accident than others.

Ziploc is definitely the most popular and known brand. It seems really weird that they waited to put that information at the very end of the article. I'm guessing it's just to get people to keep reading - most people would have stopped reading if the first paragraph made it clear that this applies only to off-brand bags.

All this evidence is against time shifts, not against daylight time. The click shifts are undeniably bad, but the evidence against permanent DST is weak.