242. The legacy of the tlingits...

A small Tlingit tribe on Admiralty Island, Alaska took their name from hutsnuwu, their local name for a grizzly bear fort.

These people produced X (the process of which they learnt most possibly from American trappers and which took its name after the name of the tribe). X was described in the 1890 'Report on the Population of Alaska' as "nearly all the trouble in this country" was due to X.

What be X?

241. The world's greatest Nuerozine...

It first started out in print format in 1988 with the subtitle “The World's Greatest Neurozine”. For sometime it was a website. Since 2000 it has been a blog with the subtitle “A directory of wonderful things”

What are we referring to?

240. Mexican Breakfast

One day in 1943, the wives of U.S. soldiers stationed at Fort Duncan in nearby Eagle Pass,in Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico, were on a shopping trip, and arrived at the restaurant Victory Club, owned by Rudolfo DeLos Santos, after it had closed for the day. The maître d', Ignacio Anaya invented a new dish for them with what little he had available in the kitchen. He served the dish, calling it ______ especiales, or "special ______".

A modified version of the dish was marketed by a man named Frank Liberto beginning in 1977, during sporting events at Arlington Stadium in Arlington, Texas. During a Monday Night Football game, sportscaster Howard Cosell enjoyed the name "_______", and made a point of mentioning the dish in his broadcasts over the following weeks, further popularizing it and introducing it to a whole new audience.

What did Anaya invent which went on to become his middle name?

239. Ode to Humanity

In 1958, Sahir Ludhianvi in a poem titled Mere ahd ke haseeno (Beauties of my generation), presented the event as a success of humanity over nature. Taking aim at those who saw their futures as astrally determined, Sahir saw in the event another sign that humanity had trumped nature. Which event?

Wo buland-baam taare, wo falak-maqaam taare
Jo nishaan de ke apna, rahe be-nashaan hamesha
Wo haseen, wo noor-zaade, wo qilaa ke shaahzaade
Jo hamaari qismaton par rahe hukmraan hamesha

Mere ahd ke haseeno, wo nazar-nawaaz taare
Mera daur e ishq parwar tumhe nazr de rahaa hai
Wo junoon jo aab o aatish ko aseer kar chuka hai
Wo qilaa ki vus-aton se bhi qiraaj le rahaa hai

Mere paas rehne waalo, mere baad aane waalo
Mere daur ka ye tohfa, tumhe saazgaar aaye
Kabhi tum qala se guzro kisi seem-tan ke qatir
Kabhi tum ko dil mein rakh kar koi gul-o-zaar aaye

238. Twainspeak...

What was inspired by a Mark Twain remark and was anthologized in the volume shown above?

237. Alpine Diet?

Inspired by a “strange dish” that he was served during a hike in the Swiss Alps, what did the physician Maximilian Bircher-Benner introduce to bolster the diet of his patients around 1900?

236. One word to bind them all....

Connect

a. A 1928 recording by Louis Armstrong and his orchestra named after a slang term used in the Jazz world for marihuana

b. A term used by geocachers to refer to those not involved in or aware of the sport of Geocaching

c. A term inducted into the OED in 2003 standing for a person lacking a skill