EnrobingFood is when you are Coating one product with another” Chocolate is a popular one when you cover a biscuit, for instance.
An enrober, according to Wikipedia: machine used in the confectionery industry to coat a food item with a coating medium, typically chocolate.
Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary:
“We do not have an entry for enrobe.”
So, what is it? Vanity? Pretentiousness? The wafer cookies are produced by the Loacker family on a mountain in Sicily, and perhaps they are royalty or wish to be so enrobed in the garment sense.
But wasn’t this entry about a word? Mostly. Entries about words (mostly) will appear as things of many things.
Here’s my ersatz journalism column with news items whose paragraphs I copy-pasted into entries.
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Commuter traffic stops for whales on Australia’s humpback highway
Why was the commuter boat late?
“In June and July, it’s not uncommon for whales to stop water traffic in Sydney. Winter heralds the opening of the so-called humpback highway, a migratory corridor along Australia’s east coast used by about 40,000 of the massive creatures as they travel from feeding grounds in freezing Antarctica to tropical breeding areas off Queensland state.”
About Whale-Watching:
“During peak traffic periods the bustling coastal city of 5.5 million people becomes one of the world’s few urban centers where you might see a breaching whale on your morning walk, while buying a coffee, or waiting at a bus stop – anyplace you can see them.”
And see them easily:
Whales cruise close to shore
“The reason humpbacks on the highway are so visible is due to their size – adults can be 16-17 meters (52-56 feet) in length, and weigh 40 tonnes – and their proximity to people. On their 10,000km (6,000 mile) journey from icy to balmy waters, one of the world’s longest mammal migrations, the creatures stay close to shore.”
And conservation:
“The population is still growing steadily, amplifying concerns about how humans and giants of the sea can safely share the coastline. But it also puts millions of Australians a short walk and a little luck away from encountering one of the largest mammals on the planet.”
Assyrian swimmers: 2,900-year-old carving of soldiers using inflatable goat skins to cross a river
“A carved panel found at Nimrud depicts Assyrian soldiers swimming across a river and using inflatable goat skins as floaties.”
Here is the panel:
Name: Assyrian Swimmers
What it is: A relief scene carved in gypsum
Where it is from: The Royal Palace of Nimrud (near modern-day Mosul, Iraq)
Where was it found and who had it made?
“The gypsum panel is one of several excavated in the 1840s from the Northwest Palace, which was built on the Tigris River around 865 B.C. on the orders of King Ashurnasirpal II. Originally located around the interior walls of the throne room and royal apartments, the carved panels depict the king leading a military campaign, engaging in rituals and hunting animals.”
Made of what and of what use?
“Animal skin or bladder floats appear several times in the Nimrud wall panels, and they were likely made from goats or pigs. The floats were used to help keep a soldier’s weapons dry and to allow an army to sneak up on an enemy.”
Meet the new species of giant stick insect that weighs about the same as a golf ball
The heaviest insect in Australia?
Where?
“In a remote rainforest in Australia, home to deadly snakes, spiders and creepy-crawlies, scientists have discovered a new species of stick insect they believe is the heaviest ever found in the country. The new species weighs 44 grams (1.55 oz), about the same as a golf ball, and is 40 cm (15.75 inches) long.”
How big?
“The new species weighs 44 grams (1.55 oz), about the same as a golf ball, and is 40 cm (15.75 inches) long.”
And also where?
The new stick insect was discovered in the canopies of the mountainous Wet Tropics region of Far North Queensland, in Australia’s northeast.
Z is for Zebra. In farm country areas you will see horses and cows, but also Zebras like the ones that escaped.
Runaway Zebra Recaptured in a Tennessee County
The Zebra is named Ed. ” The Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office, which had been searching for the animal for nearly a week, said that it was found on Sunday and returned to its owner.”
“The owner of the zebra — whose identity has not been released — got the animal on May 30 and had it for less than a day before it escaped the next morning, the sheriff’s office said in an earlier statement.”
Here is the captured Ed:
By Johnny Diaz
Okay, that’s one Zebra. How about five?
Runaways in Stripes: Five Zebras Are on the Loose in Maryland
“The zebras, which have been wandering freely along the byways of Prince George’s County, were part of a herd of 39 that belonged to a privately owned farm, officials said.”
They showed up in a yard: “Ma’am, I know you’re not going to believe me, but there’s some zebras in my backyard,” Mr. Curling recalled her saying. The call taker “gave a long pause,” he said, and then referred her to the Animal Services Division.”
“Farm workers have been slowly adding paneling around the station, creating an enclosure that will eventually include a gate with a tripwire, ” he said.
The process has been slow because the zebras might be scared to enter the feeding station if they notice the shape of the enclosure has changed, Mr. Taylor said. Once the zebras are trapped, they will be tranquilized and returned to the farm.”
This Elusive Antarctic Squid Was Seen for the First Time
“An expedition in the Southern Ocean captured video of a rare species of deep-sea cephalopod. Until now, it had been found only in fishing nets and in the bellies of seabirds.”
Where found?
“When the submersible dropped 7,000 feet, the team unexpectedly spotted a shadow through the live feed, which turned out to be an Antarctic gonate squid, a rare species of cephalopod, three feet long and releasing a green cloud of ink.”
The first seen alive:
“No Antarctic gonate squid had ever been seen alive before, as far as the team was aware. They followed it for a couple of minutes and made sure to record it on video, capturing the creature’s red coloration and white spots.”
And the importance?
“’It’s always exciting to see live footage of a critter that was known only from dead specimens previously ‘” said Bruce Robison, a deep sea ecologist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute who also was not involved in the expedition. “
Here’s the link to the squid
Article by Alexa Robles-Gil
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Whose Ocean is this?
Pennywise is going to be a mom
She is a 300-pound Loggerhead Turtle who was hit by a boat off the Florida coast and taken for treatment a facility too small for her, so
“JUNO BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A massive loggerhead sea turtle hit by a boat off Florida’s Atlantic coast arrived at a turtle hospital needing medical care, but at 302 pounds (137 kilograms), Pennywise was too large to fit their equipment.
So the veterinary team at the Loggerhead Marinelife Center in Juno Beach took her to the nearby Jupiter Medical Center, hoping she could get a CT scan on a human machine. She was too big for that, as well.
They quickly came up with another plan: taking Pennywise to Palm Beach Equine Clinic in Wellington, where the scan was performed on equipment designed for horses.”
And what else did they see?
Turns out, they also got a nice surprise: Images showed that Pennywise is carrying eggs.
“We hope we’ll be able to get her back out there into the wild as soon as possible so that she can lay those eggs,” Barron said.”
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