58 “This too shall pass,” for one : MAXIM “Parse” comes from the Latin word “pars” meaning “part”. The verb “to parse” means “to state the parts of speech in a sentence”. “Carom” has come to describe the banking of a billiard ball, the bouncing of the ball off the side of the table. 50 Tricky billiards shot : CAROMĪ carom is a ricochet, the bouncing of some projectile off a surface. The name violoncello persisted for the instrument that we know today, although the abbreviation “‘cello” was often used. ![]() The word “cello” (plural “celli” or “cellos”) is an abbreviation for “violoncello”, an Italian word for “little violone”, referring to a group of stringed instruments that were popular up to the end of the 17th century. 47 What a cellist may take onstage, in two senses : BOW Ares was the son of Zeus and Hera, and the Roman equivalent to Ares was Mars. Ares united with Aphrodite to create several gods, including Phobos (Fear), Deimos (Terror) and Eros (Desire). The Greek god Ares is often referred to as the Olympian god of warfare, but originally he was regarded as the god of bloodlust and slaughter. Something described as apian is related to bees. Big Ben fell silent in 2017 to make way for four years of maintenance and repair work to the clock’s mechanism and the tower. It may be named after Sir Benjamin Hall who supervised the bell’s installation, or perhaps the English heavyweight champion of the day Benjamin Caunt. ![]() Big Ben’s official name is the Great Bell, and there is some debate about the origins of the nickname. “Big Ben” is the name commonly used for the large bell in the Clock Tower (“Elizabeth Tower” since 2012) of the Palace of Westminster (aka “Houses of Parliament”). It converts the AC current from a wall socket into the DC current that is used by the laptop. 28 Kind of adapter : AC/DCĪnyone with a laptop with an external power supply has an AC/DC converter, that big “block” in the power cord. If that bulge causes pressure on the sciatic nerve then the painful condition known as sciatica can result. A “slipped disc” isn’t really a disc that has “slipped”, but rather a disc that “bulges”. They perform the crucial functions of separating the vertebrae while allowing slight movement, and also absorbing shock. Our intervertebral discs are composed mainly of cartilage. 25 Night class, perhaps, in brief : ESLĮnglish as a Second Language (ESL) is sometimes referred to as English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) and English as a Foreign Language (EFL). Prints that have been sepia-toned can last in excess of 150 years. Rather, it is the result of a deliberate preservation process which converts the metallic silver in the photographic image to a more stable silver sulfide. The “sepia tone” of old photographs is not the result of deterioration over time. ![]() Sepia ink was commonly used for writing and drawing as far back as ancient Rome and ancient Greece. “Sepia” is the Latinized version of the Greek word for cuttlefish, as sepia pigment is derived from the ink sac of the cuttlefish. Sepia is that rich, brown-gray color so common in old photographs. That’s something that was believed by farmers as early as the 1730s, at which time the phrase “cool as a cucumber” was coined. 17 Juice veggie : CUKEĪpparently, scientists have shown that the inside of a cucumber (“cuke” for short) growing in a field can be up to twenty degrees cooler than the surrounding air. For example, a picture of a “ewe” might represent the letter “U” or the pronoun “you”, a picture of an “oar” might represent the letter “R” or the conjunction “or”, and a picture of an “awl” might represent the word “all”. 11 Common creature in rebus puzzles : BEEĪ rebus is a puzzle that uses pictures to represent letters and groups of letters. The term alb comes from “albus”, the Latin word for “white”. Today’s Wiki-est Amazonian Googlies AcrossĪn alb is a white, neck-to-toe vestment worn by priests, usually with a rope cord around the waist.
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