Athos, Porthos and Aramis, although the hero of the novel is the trio’s young protégé D’Artagnan Flashcards
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman” who played Lois and Clark
is a television show that aired originally from 1993 to 1997. The storyline focuses as much on the relationship between Clark Kent and Lois Lane as it does on Kent’s life as Superman. Clark and Lois are played by Dean Cain and Teri Hatcher.
ROTC
Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC)
1.4 billion people (this country overtook this country as the most populous in 2023).
India passed China
The third most populous country is the USA, with about 340 million people.
Lear’s three daughters figure prominently in the story line. The three are, in order of age:
Goneril
Regan
Cordelia
Polynesian language
SAMOAN
The official name for the South Pacific nation formerly known as Western Samoa is the Independent State of Samoa. Samoa is the western part of the island group, with American Samoa lying to the southeast. The whole group of islands used to be known as Navigators Island, a name given by European explorers in recognition of the seafaring skills of the native Samoans.
Edison lab site :
Menlo Park, New Jersey is noted as the home to the laboratory belonging to Thomas Edison (TAE). We also have a pretty well-known Menlo Park out here in California, home to many of the venture capital companies that tend to make a lot of money out of Silicon Valley businesses.
Rugrats” mom :
DIDI
“Rugrats” is an animated TV series created for Nickelodeon. The series focuses on a group of toddlers; most prominently—Tommy, Chuckie, Angelica, and twins Phil and Lil. “Rugrats” was the longest-running Nickelodeon animated series until that record was surpassed by “SpongeBob SquarePants” in 2012.
was the first westerner to be ordained a Tibetan Buddhist monk.
Robert Thurman
Robert raised his children in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition and called his daughter “Uma” as it is a phonetic spelling of the Buddhist name “Dbuma”. Uma’s big break in the movies came with her starring role in Quentin Tarantino’s 1994 hit “Pulp Fiction”. My favorite Uma Thurman film is the wonderful 1996 romantic comedy “The Truth About Cats and Dogs”.
is the capital of Iowa,
The city of Des Moines
and takes its name from the Des Moines River. The river in turn takes its name from the French “Riviere des Moines” meaning “River of the Monks”. It looks like there isn’t any “monkish” connection to the city’s name per se. “Des Moines” was just the name given by French traders who corrupted “Moingona”, the name of a group of Illinois Native Americans who lived by the river. However, others contend that French Trappist monks, who lived a full 200 miles from the river, somehow influenced the name.
was the Native-American language adopted by the Incan Empire and favored over other dialects.
Quechua
keh
chuh
wuh
Today, Quechua is one of the official languages in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador, alongside Spanish.
first time that an actor of Egyptian descent won an Academy Award for Best Actor
Actor Rami Malek’s big break came with the leading role in the television series “Mr. Robot”. In 2018, Malik gave an Oscar-winning performance playing Freddie Mercury in the hit biopic “Bohemian Rhapsody”
Also In Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer” is an epic 2023 film starring him in the title role.
Cillian Murphy
The movie follows J. Robert Oppenheimer, “the father of the atomic bomb”, from his student days right through World War II and beyond. Directed by Christopher Nolan, the film has an amazing ensemble cast that includes:
Matt Damon (General Leslie Groves)
Robert Downey Jr. (Lewis Strauss)
Josh Hartnett (Ernest Lawrence)
Kenneth Branagh (Niels Bohr)
Tom Conti (Albert Einstein)
Gary Oldman (Harry S. Truman)
is a manufacturer of high-end watches based in Switzerland that was the first portable timepiece to make it to the moon
Omega
An Omega watch was the first portable timepiece to make it to the moon, Perhaps even more (!) impressive is the fact that James Bond has been wearing an Omega watch in the movies since 1995
Kidney-related :
RENAL
Something described as renal is related to the kidneys. “Ren” is the Latin word for “kidney”.
perhaps best known for portraying Gomez Addams in the two film adaptations of “The Addams Family”
Raúl Juliá was a Hollywood actor from San Juan, Puerto Rico. Julia had a very distinguished career, but is perhaps best known for portraying Gomez Addams in the two film adaptations of “The Addams Family”.
This is similar to an ax, but is different in that the blade is set at right angles to the tool’s shaft.
An adze (also “adz”)
An ax blade is set in line with the shaft
