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.
The fire here was the latest reminder of difficult times that have overtaken the state. California is in the third year of a drought, and this week it has been hit by a heat wave in which temperatures spiked above 100 degrees across the state. Fields and hills are filled with brown shrubs and trees.