![]() The term was absorbed into English as “napron”, describing a cloth used to cover the front of a person at work. In Old French, a “naperon” was a “small table-cloth”. 41 Like some aprons or reputations : STAINED For example “slithy” comes from “slimy” and “lithe”. He explained to Alice that the nonsense words in the “Jabberwocky” poem were actually portmanteau words. This usage was introduced to the world by Humpty Dumpty in Lewis Carroll’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”. We also use “portmanteau” to mean a word that has been melded together from two parts (just as the suitcase comprised two parts). The word “portmanteau” is French for a “travelling bag”, from “porter” (to carry) and “manteau” (a coat, cloak). 37 Portmanteau coinage describing this puzzle’s theme : ALLITERNATIONĪ portmanteau was a large suitcase, one that could be taken apart into two separate pieces. Our term “dinghy” comes from the Hindi “dingi”, a word meaning “small boat”.Ī dory is a small boat that’s around 20 feet long with a shallow draft, a flat bottom and a sharp bow. Element number 101 is mendelevium and was named after Mendeleev. So powerful was his table that he actually predicted the properties of some elements that had not even been discovered in 1869. When Mendeleev classified elements according to their chemical properties, he noticed patterns and was able to group elements into his famous 1869 Periodic Table. 32 One of more than 115 on a table : ELEMENTĭmitri Mendeleev was a Russian chemist. There has been a lot of talk about making “Kill Bill: Volume 3”. “Kill Bill” started off as one film, but as the running time was over four hours, it was split into two “volumes”, released several months apart in 20. “Kill Bill” is a 3-part Quentin Tarantino movie (I haven’t seen it, as I really don’t “do” Tarantino). I do enjoy one of Liu’s more recent projects in which she plays Joan Watson, one of the two lead characters in the TV crime drama “Elementary”. I liked her in the 2000 film “Charlie’s Angels” but as I am no fan of Quentin Tarantino, I did not enjoy the movie “Kill Bill”. Liu’s big break came when she was chosen to play the Ling Woo character in “Ally McBeal”. Lucy Liu is an actress from Queens, New York. When the great queen opted to commit suicide, the asp was therefore her chosen method. Cleopatra observed such executions noting that the venom brought on sleepiness without any painful spasms. It is so venomous that the asp was used in ancient Egypt and Greece as a means of execution. ![]() The asp is a venomous snake found in the Nile region of Africa. Merchandise (“mdse.” or “merch.”) 29 Nile biter : ASP 27 Sales at concerts or games, informally : MERCH In France, French fries are known as “pommes frites” (fried potatoes). And what we call “chips” in the US are known as “crisps” in Britain and Ireland. 23 Single item seemingly always found at the bottom of a McDonald’s bag : FRENCH FRYįrench fries are called “chips” back in Ireland where I grew up. The San Francisco Bay Area is served by three major airports: San Francisco (SFO), Oakland (OAK) and San Jose (SJC). Russian roulette was made famous by the 1978 movie “The Deerhunter” as it plays a central role in the film’s plot. The “game” supposedly originated in Russia, and the name was first cited in a short story that dates back to 1937. The disturbing game of Russian roulette involves the placing of a single round in a revolver, spinning the cylinder and then a player firing the gun with the muzzle placed against his or her head. 17 Game that has only a single round : RUSSIAN ROULETTE Said battle was one of the bloodiest in the Pacific theater in WWII. Control of the island was wrested from the Japanese in the five-week Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945. As the Japanese military moved in, the civilians were forced out and no one has lived there since. In 1944, there was a massive influx of Japanese military personnel in anticipation of the inevitable US invasion. There were about a thousand Japanese civilians living on the island prior to WWII. The name is Japanese for “Sulfur Island”, referring to the sulfur mining on which Iwo Jima’s economy once depended. Iwo Jima is a volcanic island located south of Tokyo that today is uninhabited. ![]() An epitome is also an abstract or summary of a book or article. The more common meaning of “epitome” is “perfect example of a group, quality, type”. Today’s Wiki-est Amazonian Googlies Across
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