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.
California's drought is now in its third year and is expected to worsen, thanks to record high temperatures and a low snowpack in the state's mountains. Nearly 80 percent of the state is now in what scientists call extreme or exceptional drought, which has caused the state water control board to call for mandatory water restrictions in urban areas and for some holders of agricultural water rights.