Thali (meaning "plate") or Bhojanam (meaning "full meals) is a round platter used to serve food in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. Thali is also used to refer to an Indian-style meal made up of a selection of various dishes which are served on a platter. Thali is also used in south Asia for ceremonial purposes.

Kurmi is traditionally a cultivator caste in the lower Gangetic plain of India, especially southern regions of Awadh, eastern Uttar Pradesh and large parts of Bihar.

Shia (; Arabic: شيعة العراق‎) Muslims make up the plurality of the Iraqi population, with 64% to 69% of Iraqis being Shia. Shia Islam has a long history in Iraq; the fourth caliph of Sunni Islam and the first Imam of Shia Islam, Ali ibn Abi Talib, moved the capital of the empire from Medina to Kufa (or Najaf) two decades after the death of Muhammad. Iraq is the location of the holy cities of Najaf and Karbala, pilgrimage sites for millions of Shia Muslims. Najaf is the site of Ali's tomb, and Karbala is the site of the tomb of Muhammad's grandson, third Shia Imam Husayn ibn Ali. Najaf is also a center of Shia learning and seminaries. Two other holy sites for Twelver Shia in Iraq are the Al-Kadhimiya Mosque in Baghdad, which contains the tombs of the seventh and ninth Shia Imams (Mūsā al-Kādhim and Muhammad al-Taqī) and the Al-Askari Mosque in Sāmarrā, which contains the tombs of the tenth and eleventh Shia Imams (Ali al-Hadi and Hasan al-‘Askarī).Since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, there has been sectarian violence between Shias and Sunnis in the country, which reached its highest point during the Iraqi Civil War between 2006 and 2008.

Closed for Storm is a Documentary film by YouTube creator Jake Williams of Bright Sun Films. It focuses on 15 years after Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast and created a lasting monument of the devastation. Six Flags New Orleans is currently sitting abandoned, rotting away in the Louisiana swamp. Closed for Storm explores the past, present, and future, to find out how this incredible theme park became frozen in time and left in an endless void of uncertainty. The film was officially announced on January 17, 2020 in a video posted by Williams called "My Documentary Announcement." On May 8, 2020, the trailer was released. In July of 2020, Williams showed new clips of Closed for Storm on a podcast called Factual America Podcast. The documentary premiered at the New Orleans Film Festival on November 7, 2020. Jake Williams has stated that the film will be publicly released in July of 2021 in his 1 million subscriber YouTube video.

Shia (; Arabic: شيعة العراق‎) Muslims make up the plurality of the Iraqi population, with 64% to 69% of Iraqis being Shia. Shia Islam has a long history in Iraq; the fourth caliph of Sunni Islam and the first Imam of Shia Islam, Ali ibn Abi Talib, moved the capital of the empire from Medina to Kufa (or Najaf) two decades after the death of Muhammad.