Rough translation

"You didn’t have to speak English to dig coal,” John Brunett said one recent afternoon, summarizing the cultural forces that gave birth to the pepperoni roll, the signature product of his family’s bakery."

Rock, paper, scissors, gun, fishing knife

Newhouse slammed Summers' hand against a pillar in the room, causing her to lose her grip. Newhouse then took the gun and pointed it at Summers, who had by this time gotten back into her purse and retrieved a fishing knife, according to the criminal complaint.

High-tech dirt roads, courtesy of Massey Energy Co.

Massey [WV coal company] is working with the Mingo County Redevelopment Authority to provide the Mingo and Logan County area with a state-of-the-art dirt racetrack.

Sir Arnold Toynbee is a hairy ainus

Mountain people have long been considered exotic. The eminent British historian Sir Arnold Toynbee described the residents of Appalachia in 1947 as "the American counterparts of the latter-day white barbarians of the Old World -- Rifis, Albanians, Kurds, Pathans, and Hairy Ainus."

-Salon.com