81 Philly Final Four Indiana Beat UNC Flashcards
Sly and the family stone top hits
Everyday people
Family affair
Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)
Hot sun in the summertime -#2
Orinoco Flow” singer :
ENYA
“Orinoco Flow” is a song by Irish singer Enya that she released in 1988. It’s the one that goes “sail away, sail away, sail away …”
Org. for college cadets :
ROTC
The Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) is a training program for officers based in colleges all around the US. The ROTC program was established in 1862 when as a condition of receiving a land-grant to create colleges, the federal government required that military tactics be part of a new school’s curriculum.
Greek goddess of victory :
NIKE
Nike was the Greek goddess of victory, and was often referred to as “the Winged Goddess of Victory”. The athletic shoe company Nike uses the “Nike swoosh” as its logo, a logo that is inspired by the goddess’ wing.
The name of the game comes from the Japanese folk hero “Paku”, who is known for his voracious appetite.
The Pac-Man arcade game was released first in Japan in 1980, and is as popular today as it ever was. The game features characters that are maneuvered around the screen to eat up dots and earn points, while being pursued by ghosts named Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde.
The spin-off game called Ms. Pac-Man was released in 1981.
was an African-American journalist and leader of the civil rights movement. She published a pamphlet in 1892 called “Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases”, which publicized the horrors of lynching of African Americans by white mobs in the South.
Ida B. Wells
The phrase “” is used for a final gesture, a last performance.
swan song
The expression derives from an ancient belief that swans are silent for most of their lives, but sing a beautiful song just before they die.
This is a phenomenon dictated by the tilt of the earth’s axis. Twice every year, that tilt “evens out” and the sun is equidistant from points at the same latitude both north and south of the equator. It is as if the earth has no tilt relative to the sun.
equinox
The term “equinox” comes from the Latin for “equal night”, inferring that night and day are equally long, as the effect of the earth’s “tilt” is nullified. Equinoxes occur each year around March 21st (the vernal equinox) and September 23rd (the autumnal equinox).
is an American actress who has earned the nickname “Queen of the Indies” due to her success in several indie movies. She did miss out on one mainstream role though, as she was edged out by Jennifer Aniston to play Rachel on “Friends”.
Parker Posey
founded his company in 1863, first making sewing machines in a cowshed. Commercial success brought new premises and a new product line in 1886, namely penny-farthing bicycles. He died in 1895, leaving his two sons with a company that made more penny-farthings and sewing machines than any other company in the world. In 1899 the two sons partnered with a locksmith and started to make cars, but not very successfully. Two years later, the locksmith was dropped in favor of a licensing arrangement with a French car company. By 1914, was the largest manufacturer of automobiles in Germany.
Adam Opel
The Thomas Crown Affair” is an excellent 1998 remake of the 1969 film of the same name
original and remake
that starred Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway. The remake stars Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo, with Faye Dunaway making a cameo appearance as Thomas Crown’s psychiatrist
He was one of three ancient Greek tragedians whose work has survived. The first of these was Aeschylus, the second him, and the third Euripides. He is believed to have written 123 plays, the most famous of which are “Antigone” and “Oedipus the King”.
Sophocles
His this number law of motion states that a body that is moving maintains the same velocity unless it is acted upon by an external force. That resistance to changing velocity is known as this .
Newton’s first
inertia - Johann Kepler introduced the Latin word “inertia” to describe the physical phenomenon in the 17th century. The Latin term translates as “apathy, inactiveness”. We started using the Latin “inertia” in English to mean the same thing only in the 19th century, after the term had bopped around in science texts for a couple of centuries.
This is a metal ore deposit that’s found between two layers of rock or in a fissure.
A lode
The mother lode is the principal deposit in a mine, usually of gold or silver. “Mother lode” is probably a translation of “veta madre”, an expression used in mining in Mexico.
Literary characters
An 1902 work says an enigmatic character has a half English mom and a half French dad but this name of his is German for short
Mr Kurtz
Kurtz is German word for short
From heart of darkness
