C Is For Suh Zare E In Flashcards
This is a sparkling white wine from the Piedmont region of Italy that is named for the town around which the wine is produced.
Asti
The wine used to be called Asti Spumante, and it had a very bad reputation as a “poor man’s champagne”. The “Spumante” was dropped in a marketing attempt at rebranding associated with a reduction in the amount of residual sugar in the wine.
is a large city in the very north of France that sits right on the border with Belgium.
City in French Flanders
Lille
The name “Lille” is a derivation of the term “l’isle” meaning “the island”. The former name “L’Isle” dates back to 1066, and is a reference to a castle that once stood on an island in the Deûle river that runs through the city. The city grew around the island and the castle.
Apparently, scientists have shown that the inside of this growing in a field can be up to twenty degrees cooler than the surrounding air.
cucumber (“cuke” for short)
That’s something that was believed by farmers as early as the 1730s, at which time the phrase “cool as a cucumber” was coined.
This is the body of water that lies south of the Red Sea, and just north of the Horn of Africa
Gulf of Aden
This is a cultural practice or idea that is passed on verbally or by repetition from one person to another. The term lends itself very well to the online world where links, emails, files etc. are so easily propagated.
meme from “mineme”)
Both animals and plants can suffer from this , which is a swelling caused by excessive accumulation of fluid.
edema
Winged figure in Piccadilly Circus :
EROS
London’s Piccadilly Circus is a major road junction in the West End of London. The junction is at one end of the thoroughfare called Piccadilly, hence the first part of the name. The junction’s shape is roughly circular, hence the use of “circus”, a Latin word meaning “circle”. Famously, there is a statue of Anteros at the center of the junction (a subject often mistaken for Eros, the brother of Anteros).
Singer dubbed the “Tejano Madonna” :
Also who played in movie
SELENA
Singer Selena Quintanilla-Perez, known professionally simply as “Selena”, was murdered in 1995 by the president of her own fan club at the height of her career. In a 1997 biopic about Selena’s life, Jennifer Lopez played the title role. Selena had often been referred to as the “Queen of Tejano” during her career.
These are energy centers in the body that are believed to correspond to different aspects of the physical, emotional, and spiritual self. There are seven main of these , located along the spine from the base of the spine to the crown of the head. Each is associated with a different color, element, and emotion.
Chakras
is a 2002 novel by Japanese author Haruki Murakami. The book alternates, chapter by chapter, between two related storylines. One follows 15-year-old Kafka Tamura on his quest to find his mother and sister. The second follows old and infirmed Satoru Nakata, who has an uncanny ability to talk to cats
Kafka on the Shore” (“Umibe no Kafuka”)
This is a wooden beam used between a pair of animals so that they are forced to work together.
A yoke
This is a type of decadent cake made primarily with eggs, sugar and ground nuts (but no flour).
torte
This ” is a painting by René Magritte. It is a very simple image of a pipe that one might smoke, with the words “Ceci n’est pas une pipe” (This is not a pipe).
The Treachery of Images
Magritte’s point was that the painting wasn’t a pipe, but rather an image of a pipe.
One of its claims to fame is that it is home to the intersecting point between zero degrees of latitude and zero degrees of longitude, i.e. where the Equator and Prime Meridian cross.
Gulf of Guinea
Crocodile Rock” is a 1972 song co-written and recorded by.
Elton John
Like so many fans of his songs, I love “Crocodile Rock”, but Elton himself, he apparently does not. He has stated that he performed it in concerts because the audiences enjoy it, but he has vowed never to play it again now that he has retired from touring.
