Gallium Latin France Flashcards
means “master of the hotel”
This way to your table” speaker : MAITRE D’
The full title of a maître d’ is “maître d’hôtel”, which means “master of the hotel”.
Pi days
The first three digits of the mathematical constant pi are 3.14. Pi Day has been celebrated on March 14th (3/14) every year since 1988, when it was inaugurated at the San Francisco Exploratorium. In countries where the day is usually written before the month, Pi Day is July 22nd, reflecting the more accurate approximation of pi as 22/7. Interestingly, March 14th is also Albert Einstein’s birthday.
There were three important days in each month of the old Roman calendar. These days originally depended on this but were eventually “fixed” by law
cycles of the moon.
Kalendae” were the first days of each month, originally the days of the new moon. “Nonae” were originally the days of the half moon. And “idus” (the ides) was originally the day of the full moon, eventually fixed at the 15th day of a month. Actually, the ides were the 15th day of March, May, July and October. For all other months, the ides fell on the 13th. Go figure …
comes from the phrase “a Dios vos acomiendo” meaning “I commend you to God”.
Adios
Wrinkly-faced dogs :
PUGS
The pug is a dog breed of Chinese origin. Our last family pet was a boxer/pug cross, and was a good-looking mutt!
The territories were established at the same time in 1854, with this act.
the Kansas-Nebraska Act
In the following decade, settlers arrived in Kansas, both from slave states and slave-free states. Violent conflict between the two factions led to the territory earning the name “Bleeding Kansas”. Kansas was eventually admitted as a slave-free state in 1861, making it the last state admitted prior to the Civil War that broke out later that year.
This franchise includes a line of toys as well as TV shows and movies. The original ones were characters created for greeting cards marketed by American Greetings starting in 1981
Funshine
Care Bears
Coachella month and location
APR
The first Coachella Valley Music Festival was held in 1999, and then annually from 2001 until the present day. Coachella Valley is located in the Colorado Desert that, despite the name, is found in Southern California.
Rabbit kin with a white winter coat :
ARCTIC HARE
The arctic hare, as the name suggests, lives in icy biomes such as the Arctic tundra. It is well adapted to the harsh environment. It has a thick, white coat of fur in the winter, and a body fat percentage of nearly 20%. It stays warm when sleeping by burrowing into the snow. The arctic hare can also move at quite a clip, reaching speeds of up to 40 miles per hour.
Caribbean archipelago :
ANTILLES
The Antilles islands are divided into two main groups, the Greater Antilles and the Lesser Antilles. The Greater Antilles includes the islands of Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola and Puerto Rico. The Lesser Antilles are made up of the Leeward Islands, the Windward Islands and the Leeward Antilles, and lie just north of Venezuela.
Our intervertebral discs are composed mainly of
cartilage. They perform the crucial functions of separating the vertebrae while allowing slight movement, and also absorbing shock. A “slipped disc” isn’t really a disc that has “slipped”, but rather a disc that “bulges”. If that bulge causes pressure on the sciatic nerve then the painful condition known as sciatica can result.
A flame is used as the symbol for the Olympic Games in commemoration of the
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theft of fire for humanity by Prometheus from Zeus in Greek mythology. The symbolic flame was introduced to the Modern Olympics in the 1928 Summer Games in Amsterdam. The tradition of the Olympic torch relay started out as political theater devised and funded by Nazi Germany for the 1936 Summer Games in Berlin.
portrayed by Damion Poitier in the 2012 movie “The Avengers”, and by Josh Brolin in several subsequent movies including 2014’s “Guardians of the Galaxy”.
Marvel villain who said, “I am inevitable” : THANOS
Thanos is a supervillain in the Marvel Comics universe.
This Is Spın̈al Tap” is a rock musical mockumentary about the fictional band Spinal Tap, directed by the
great Rob Reiner. I love Rob Reiner’s work, but this movie … not so much …
“Black-ish” is a sitcom starring
Anthony Anderson and Tracee Ellis Ross that premiered in 2014. The lead actors play Dre and Rainbow Johnson, a married couple leading an upper-middle class black family. The show is noted for tackling tough issues such as racism, police brutality, attitudes toward the LGBT community, and the 2016 US presidential election.
Jack’s twin on “Black-ish” : DIANE
It is nicknamed “The City of a Thousand Minarets” because of its impressive skyline replete with Islamic architecture.
The name “Cairo” is a European corruption of the city’s original name in Arabic, “Al-Qahira”.
capital city of Egyp
