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2 unusual facts about Melange


Melange

Wiener Melange, a Viennese specialty coffee, similar to cappuccino

Mélange, a geological breccia above a subduction zone environment


Culture of the Marquesas Islands

Today, Marquesan culture is a mélange created by the layering of the ancient Marquesan culture, with strong influences from the important Tahitian culture and the politically important French culture.

Douglas Century

The New York Times Book Review saw the book as the embodiment of "hip-hop's Horatio Alger" myth: “Ice-T, in short, is someone hip-hop might have invented if he hadn’t invented himself," reviewer Baz Dreisinger wrote. "A goes-down-easy mélange of memoir, self-help, and amateur criminology. Ultimately, Ice showcases an eminently reasonable, positively likeable guy, the gangsta rapper even a parent could love.”

Dune prequel series

Suk doctor Wellington Yueh, the Bene Gesserit Lady Jessica and Harkonnen enemies Duncan Idaho and Gurney Halleck ally themselves with Leto, and Shaddam nearly destroys the all-important planet Arrakis thinking he has found a replacement for its priceless and essential export, melange.

Marcellus Empiricus

Other ingredients likely to have been rare for Marcellus’s intended audience include cinnamon, cloves, candied tragacanth, Alexandrian niter, and African snails, perhaps the Giant African land snail, which are prescribed live for pulping into a mélange.

Mr. Bug Goes to Town

Despite the fact that the film is still copyrighted (by Republic successor Melange Pictures, managed by parent company Viacom, which also owns Paramount Pictures), public domain companies have released the film on VHS and DVD.

Organizations of the Dune universe

The Emperor's power derives from Imperial control of the seemingly invincible military forces of the Sardaukar, and of the planet Arrakis and its priceless melange, a source of endless wealth.

Sântana de Mureș

It probably corresponds to the Gothic kingdom of Oium as described by Jordanes in his work Getica, but it is nonetheless the result of a poly-ethnic cultural mélange of the Gothic, Getae-Dacian, Sarmatian and Slavic populations of the area.

The Times-Picayune

toward people who were cash-strapped after the evacuation" from Hurricane Gustav, which in the meantime had become part of the melange of problems associated with hurricanes and governmental agencies; a second editorial on the same day blasted the State of Louisiana's Road Home program and its contractor ICF.


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