The Bloody Mary is a tomato juice and vodka cocktail, and its exact origin is disputed. Fernand Petiot, a bartender at New York Bar in Paris, is credited with mixing it around 1920 or 1921, when it was reportedly called a Bucket of Blood. New York's 21 Club and comedian George Jessel also claim the drink, and in 1939 a gossip column described Jessel's new pick-me-up as half tomato juice and half vodka. Petiot later said he refined it in 1934 at the King Cole Room in the St. Regis Hotel, adding salt, pepper, cayenne and Worcestershire sauce. In 1942 Life magazine called a similar mix red hammer. The name is also disputed, with stories of a Chicago waitress named Mary, the actress Mary Pickford, and the nickname of Queen Mary I of England, and an account linking it to a customer named Vladimir Smirnov.

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Angkor, near Siem Reap in northern Cambodia, was the capital of the Khmer Empire, which ruled much of mainland Southeast Asia between roughly the 9th and 15th centuries. At its height the city spread across about 3,000 square kilometres, making it the largest pre-industrial city on Earth by area. Its growth depended on water: huge reservoirs called barays, along with canals and embankments, stored monsoon rain and carried it to rice fields. That system let farmers harvest more than once a year and fed a very large population through the dry season. The temple complex of Angkor Wat, built in the early 12th century, is the best-known monument and still stands at the heart of the park.