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The department was founded as a Bureau in 1889 under the Department of the Interior. The Bureau’s status was elevated to Cabinet level by President William Howard Taft in 1913, with a bill he signed on his last day in office. The department has been headquartered in the Frances Perkins Building in Washington, D.C. since 1975.
US Department of Labor (DOL)
This is the geographic region that lies east of the Mediterranean, covering modern-day Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, and Egypt. The term is sometimes also used synonymously with the Near East.
The Levant
Syria and Lebanon, when under French rule, were called the Levant States, a name still used at times for the two nations. As one might expect, the word Levant comes from French and was the Middle French word for “the Orient”. The term was used for the Orient as it described lands to the east, where the sun rises (from “lever”, the French word meaning “to rise”). Really, quite interesting …
ASCII (
American Standard Code for Information Interchange) lists codes for 32 “control” characters, as well as the 95 printable characters. These binary codes are the way that our computers can understand what we mean when we type, say a letter or a number. Unicode is a more contemporary standard, and is like “Ascii on steroids”, encompassing more characters.
is a structure atop the mainmast of a ship that is used as a lookout point. The first was erected in 1807, and was simply a barrel that was lashed to the tallest mast.
crow’s nest
Supposedly, the structure is named for the crows or ravens that Vikings carried with them on their voyages. The birds were released and used as navigation aids as invariably, the crow or raven headed straight for the nearest land.
is located on the River Thames in Berkshire, just 20 miles outside London. It was built in the early 11th century by William the Conqueror after the Norman invasion of England. Queen Elizabeth II used to spend many of her weekends here. She had lots of room to move around there, as it’s the largest inhabited castle in the world.
Windsor Castle
are essential to life in many ways, not least of which is their use as the building blocks of proteins. Nine are considered “essential” for humans. These nine must be included in the diet as they cannot be synthesized in the body.
Amino acids
Miami Sound Machine was a band that was founded as the Miami Latin Boys in 1975. She joined as a vocalist in 1977, by which time the band had changed its name to Miami Sound Machine.
Gloria García (now “Estefan”)
A further name change came in 1987, to Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine.
In 1502 these 2 collaborated to reroute this Italian river in order to make more navigable
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city nicknamed the “Big Guava” :
TAMPA
The Florida city of Tampa has been known as “the Big Guava” since the seventies. The term is imitative of New York’s “Big Apple”, and refers to the unsuccessful search for the reported wild guava trees that were once hoped to be the basis of a new industry for the area. Tampa has also been called “Cigar City”, a reference to the cigar industry that fueled the area’s growth starting in the 1880s.
Finnish telecom giant :
NOKIA
I do enjoy classical guitar music, but there isn’t a huge choice on CD. There is one very special piece called “Gran Vals” by Francisco Tárrega, written in 1902. This piece has a unique reputation as it contains a phrase that was once the most listened-to piece of music in the whole world. Just a few bars into the work one can hear the celebrated Nokia ringtone!
“You’ve got mail” co. :
AOL
The iconic phrase “You’ve got mail” was first used by AOL in 1989. The greeting was recorded by voice actor Elwood Edwards. Edwards has parlayed his gig with AOL into some other work. He appears in an episode of “The Simpsons” as a doctor who says the line “You’ve got leprosy”. Edwards also worked as a weatherman for a while and got to use the line “You’ve got hail” …
The US went for this money unit in deference to the practice of dividing Spanish Milled Dollars into eight wedge-shaped “bits”.
The American quarter is a little unusual in the world of decimal currency, if you think about it. Most currencies have a “20-cent” coin, which is easier to work with mathematically.
That’s also why the quarter is sometimes referred to as “two bits”. We’ve been using the adjective “two-bit” to mean “cheap, tawdry” at least since 1929. State quarters were introduced in 1999.
film. The term, meaning “black film” in French, was first used by Nino Frank in 1946.
Film noir often applies to a movie with a melodramatic plot and a private eye or detective at its center. Good examples would be “The Big Sleep” and “D.O.A”.
Actor was originally a rapper and was a member of a group called “Wolfpack” before he pursued acting full-time. His’ really big break came in the form of a recurring role on the popular medical drama series “ER”, followed by a recurring role in the TV series “House” as Dr. Eric Foreman.
Omar Epps
Flute-playing Greek god
The pan flute is named for the Greek god Pan, who was often depicted playing the instrument.
