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 Drought Brings Past Into Focus. January 13, 1991 | By Jorge Casuso, Chicago Tribune. KERNVILLE, CALIF. â Whenever drought lowers the water level of the giant reservoir, the displaced residents of Old Kernville return to the lost town at the bottom of Lake Isabella.They come to dredge up old memories.merging from the muck are slices of California`s colorful frontier days-miners` mule trails and abandoned railroad tunnels-that lure former residents, historians, scavengers and tourists to dry lake beds across the state.