Answer: The DASH diet -- DASH actually stands for Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension -- is a diet that's based on the USDA food pyramid and it was designed to reduce blood pressure, to control blood pressure.
Graffiti and graffito are from the Italian word graffiato (scratched). Graffiti is applied in art history to works of art produced by scratching a design into a surface. A related term is graffito, which involves scratching through one layer of pigment to reveal another beneath it.
1. The Bullis family originally came to England in 1066 from Normandy with William The Conqueror (William I). The name is from the French Bois Ville, or village in the woods. (This was from Personal and Family Names, Harry Alfred Long, published in 1883, London, England by Adams and Company.