“En route” is a French term that means “on the way”.īig Ben is the name commonly used for the large bell in the Clock Tower of the Palace of Westminster (aka the Houses of Parliament). Personally, I can’t stand vampire fiction …
Dracula wasn’t the first vampire of literature, but he certainly was the one who spawned the popularity of vampires in theater, film and television, and indeed more novels. “Dracula” is a novel written by the Irish author Bram Stoker and first published in 1897. Mina Harker is the protagonist in Bram Stoker’s novel “Dracula”. _ Harker, heroine in Stoker’s “Dracula” MINA “Skald” is a Scandinavian term for a poet, referring in particular to the poets of the Viking Age and the Middle Ages.Ĥ7. Grauman liked it so much that continued to request it, and the Cobb salad was born. Late one night, Grauman asked for a snack, and Cobb came up with a chopped salad simply made from ingredients he happened to have in the refrigerator. One of his regular customers was the famous Sid Grauman, who ran Grauman’s Chinese Theater. Cobb, owned the Brown Derby chain of restaurants. As Chief Justice, this former US President swore in two new presidents: Calvin Coolidge (in 1925) and Herbert Hoover (in 1929). President Taft was able to realize that dream in 1921, eight years after losing his bid for re-election as president. William Howard Taft may have been the 27th President of the United States, but his lifelong ambition was to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Taft became its president after his term as U.S. So, to ridicule or deride is “to laugh down at”.ģ9. In turn, “deridere” comes from the prefix “de-” (down) and “”ridere” (to laugh). The term comes into English via Old French from the Latin “deridere” meaning “to ridicule”. “To deride” is to treat with contemptuous mirth. The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! It was probably the one poem that we all just loved learning to recite at school: Here are the first two verses of “Jabberwocky”, the famous nonsense poem by Lewis Carroll.
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I love Rob Reiner’s work, but this movie … not so much … “This Is Spın̈al Tap” is a rock musical mockumentary about the fictional band Spın̈al Tap, directed by the great Rob Reiner. Band with an umlaut on the “n” in its name SPINAL TAP However, his Alabama accent was misconstrued at school when his family moved to Cleveland, so teachers and classmates called him “Jesse” instead of “JC”, and the name stuck.Ģ0. Jesse’s real name was James Cleveland Owens, and he went by “JC” as a child. Jesse Owens is of course famous for winning four gold medals at the Berlin Olympic Games in 1936, much to the chagrin of Adolph Hitler. The month of August, originally called “Sextilis” in Latin, was renamed in honor of Augustus. As the first Emperor of Rome, Octavian was given the name Caesar Augustus. Several years later he wrested sufficient power from the Roman Senate to end the Republic and begin the Roman Empire. When the triumvirate fell apart, especially after Antony’s defeat at Actium, Octavian became more powerful within the Roman Republic. After Julius Caesar was assassinated, Octavian came to power in Rome and teamed up with Mark Antony and Marcus Aemilius Lepidus in what was called the Second Triumvirate. Gaius Octavius Thurinus (often called Octavian) was the adopted son of Gaius Julius Caesar. The first letter in the word “August” is a capital A. She had a way of creating simpler designs that looked so elegant on a woman.
However, if I had to pick a designer whose clothes I really liked, it would be Chanel. Perhaps because I am a man, clothes design is not my forte. The Greek “spora” is “a sowing”, and something sporadic is scattered, like seeds perhaps.Īllure is a line of perfumes that was launched by the House of Chanel in 1996.Ĭoco Chanel was a French fashion designer. Our word “sporadic”, meaning “occurring at irregular intervals”, has the same root as “spore”.
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