When you buy corn on the cob, avoid ears with black or dry corn silk or kernels with indentations, because those are signs that the corn is drying out and has lost sweetness. One large ear of sweet, yellow corn boiled without salt has 113 calories, 4 grams of protein and 1.8 grams of total fat.
In the year leading up to Vincent Van Gogh's death (1890), he had fits of despair and hallucinations. On July 27, 1890, Van Gogh shot himself in the chest with a revolver. The bullet passed through his chest without doing major damage to his internal organs. Van Gogh was rushed to the hospital and died the next day of an untreated infection. His death is generally accepted as a suicide.
Thatâs because the eccentric post-Impressionist captured a mysterious mutant sunflower variety that scientists have only just deciphered. In 1888, plagued by despair and hallucinations, Vincent van Gogh left Paris to settle in the ProvenÃ§al city of Arles. There he undertook several paintings featuring bunches of sunflowers, which he hoped would help brighten the studio he planned to share with fellow artist Paul Gaugin.