INDO-EUROPEAN HYPOTHESIS Sir William Jones, 1786, hypothesis that most European languages and others (in India, parts of the Middle East, and Asia) are cognates (are related, as a family, by common origins). large common and unique vocabulary of the Germanic languages (not present in other Indo-European languages and perhaps borrowed from non-Indo-European languages) (e.g. back, blood, body, bone, bride, child, gate, ground, oar, rat, sea, soul).
Two years into California's drought, Donald Galleano's grapevines are scorched shrubs, their charcoal-colored stems and gnarled roots displaying not a lick of life. I've never seen anything like this, says Galleano, 61, the third-generation owner of a 300-acre vineyard in Mira Loma, California, that bears his name.
Maharashtra drought of 2013. The 2013 drought of Maharashtra happened primarily owing to low rainfall during June to September, the previous year. It is regarded as one of the worst of its kind to have hit the state in the last 40 years. Following are the areas affected by the drought: Solapur; Ahmednagar; Sangli; Pune; Satara; Beed; Nashik; Latur; Osmanabad; Nanded