WASHINGTON (AP) â Four trains hauling crude oil have derailed in the U.S. and Canada since mid-February, rupturing tank cars, spilling their contents, polluting waterways and igniting spectacular fires that burned for days.he number of accidents is going up because the oil boom in the U.S. and Canada has dramatically increased the amount of oil shipped by rail. Last year, railroads moved 493,126 tank cars of crude oil, compared to 407,761 in 2013.
Bananas Foster. We have Richard Foster, a regular at New Orleans' celebrated restaurant Brennan's, to thank for this delectable dessert. A sticky, sweet, smooth combination of cooked bananas swimming in sugar, melted butter, and rum, which is often ignited tableside, the dessert was invented in 1951 by Chef Paul for Foster.
A general name for alcoholic beverages made by fermenting a cereal (or mixture of cereals) flavored with hops. Classified under: Nouns denoting foods and drinks. Hypernyms (beer is a kind of...): brew; brewage (drink made by steeping and boiling and fermenting rather than distilling) Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of beer): draft beer; draught beer (beer drawn from a keg) suds (a dysphemism for beer (especially for lager that effervesces)) lager; lager beer (a general term for beer made with bottom fermenting yeast (usually by decoction mashing); originally it was brewed in March or April and matured until September) ale (a general name for beer made with a top fermenting yeast; in some of the United States an ale is (by law) a brew of more than 4% alcohol by volume)