Hunger in the United States is an issue that affects millions of Americans, including some who are middle class, or who are in households where all adults are in work. Research from the USDA found that 14.9% of American households were food insecure during at least some of 2011, with 5.7% suffering from very low food security.
Flat Earth (also known as the Flat Earth myth, flat-earthism, and less commonly platygeism) is the belief that the earth â which the vast, vast majority of the population imagine in their heads as this big spherical thing (or oblate spheroidal thing, pedants) is actually flat. (Or, at least, cyclindrical.).
Flat is usually a noun or an adjective, but it is sometimes an adverb. 1. 'flat' used as a noun. In British English, a flat is a set of rooms for living in, usually on one floor of a large building. ...a ground floor flat. See flat-apartment. 2. 'flat' used as an adjective or adverb. Something that is flat is not sloping, curved, or pointed. Every flat surface in our house is covered with junk. Use a saucepan with a flat base. If something lies or rests flat against a surface, all of it is touching the surface. He was lying flat on his back. She let the blade of her oar rest flat upon the water.