41 Obsessive Christmas-season ballet attendee? : NUTCRACKER NUT Decades later, the day is observed in over 175 countries. The original Earth Day was on April 22nd, 1970. Earth Day was designed to increase awareness and appreciation of our planet’s natural environment. : APRĮarth Day was founded in the US, where it was introduced by Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin. In modern usage, bric-a-brac tends to be a selection of cheaper items. Since Victorian times we have used the phrase in English to describe a collection of curios, statues and the like. Back then, it was a nonsense term meaning “at random” or “any old way”. “Bric-a-brac” is a French phrase (actually “bric-à-brac”, with an accent) that was used as far back as the 16th century. “Sphinx” is actually a Greek word, meaning “the strangler” … 37 _-a-brac : BRIC The idea is that a man crawls on all fours as a baby, and then walks on two feet as an adult, and walks with a cane in old age. The Sphinx threatened to strangle and devour any person who could not answer a famous riddle: “Which creature walks on four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon, and three legs in the evening?” Oedipus was able to save himself by correctly answering “Man”. In Greek mythology, the creature known as the Sphinx has the body of a lion, the wings of a bird and the face of a woman. The name “Cairo” is a European corruption of the city’s original name in Arabic, “Al-Qahira”. It is nicknamed “The City of a Thousand Minarets” because of its impressive skyline replete with Islamic architecture. Very complimentary … 36 Capital city near the Sphinx : CAIROĬairo is the capital city of Egypt. When he died in 2004, “Time” magazine wrote that Paar was “the fellow who split talk show history into two eras: “Before Paar and Below Paar”. Jack Paar was most famous as the host of “The Tonight Show”, from 1957 to 1962. “FX” (sometimes “f/x”) is an abbreviation for “effects”, as in “special effects”. I feel a tad obsolete myself, because when we are at school we would be excused from class if we had a “chitty”. The word used to be “chitty”, which is now obsolete but was closer to the original Hindi term. The term “chit” tends to be used these days in the sense of an amount owed (as in a poker game). 33 IOUs : CHITSĪ chit is a note or a short letter. The shoots must be harvested when they are very young, as they become woody very quickly. 31 Asparagus unit : SPEARĪsparagus is a perennial flowering plant that is grown mainly for its edible shoots (or “spears”). The term “connoisseur” is French in origin, and stems from the Latin “com” (with) and “gnoscere” (to recognize). 28 Cemetery connoisseur? : HEADSTONE HEADĪ connoisseur is an expert, or someone who appreciates something with discrimination. It comes from the earlier word “yin” imported from Chinese, which was used in English to describe an intense craving for opium. The word “yen”, meaning “urge”, has been around in English since the very early 1900s. The British demolished the wall two decades later, in 1699. The attack by land never came, but the British did mount a successful invasion by sea. The “Waal” in question was a wall erected by Dutch colonists to protect them from an attack by the British from the north. New York’s famous Wall Street was originally named by the Dutch “de Waalstraat”. The street was extended after the completion of a 17th century landfill program, which was necessary to stem the erosion of the shore. Often, “water” from the East River would wash over “Water” Street at high tide. Manhattan’s Water Street originally extended for only one block, down to the island’s shore at the East River.
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The week is full of TV shows and specials that are shown with the stated intent of promoting awareness and respect for sharks. “Shark Week” is an annual event on the Discovery Channel, and has been so since 1987.
So, a buffet is a meal served from a “bufet”. Our word “buffet” comes from the French “bufet” meaning “bench, sideboard”. Am I my brother’s keeper?” 17 All-you-can-eat restaurant regular? : BUFFET BUFF Subsequently, God asks Cain, “Where is Abel thy brother?” Cain replies, “I do not know. In the story of Cain and Abel in the Book of Genesis, Cain murders his brother Abel. One reference from back then cites the incrementally daring sequence: The idiomatic phrase “double-dog dare” is very American, and dates back at least to the 1940s. Today’s Wiki-est Amazonian Googlies Across
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