![]() ![]() The idea is that an omnibus is a carriage “for all”. We imported “omnibus” via French from Latin, in which language it means “for all”. We use the term “bus” for a mode of transportation as it is an abbreviated form of the original “omnibus”. Matzo is an unleavened flatbread used in Jewish cuisine, and which plays a central role in the Seder ritual feast that marks the beginning of Passover. The common “faucet” in an American house is almost always referred to as a “tap” on the other side of the pond. If you want to read a fun book (almost an “exposé”) about life playing the oboe, you might try “Mozart in the Jungle” by oboist Blair Tindall. In terms of ingredients, it is a mix of sodium bicarbonate, aspirin and anhydrous citric acid. 32 _-Seltzer : ALKAĪlka-Seltzer is a brand of fizzy antacid that has been marketed since 1931. To bunt in baseball is to barely hit the ball, just enough to have it roll slowly in front of the infielders. 29 Baseball ploy to advance a runner : BUNT He moved to Nashville, Tennessee in 1992, and married Australian actress Nicole Kidman in 2006. Keith Urban is a country singer from Australia who was actually born in New Zealand. That’s a lot of tuna … 24 Country singer Keith : URBAN The Atlantic bluefin tuna can weigh over 1,500 pounds, and reach about 15 feet in length. The smallest is the bullet tuna, which can grow to about 4 pounds in weight and just over 1½ feet in length. There are 15 species of tuna, the size of which varies greatly. Sadly, one police officer was killed just one year after the light’s installation, when the gas system exploded. That first system was operated manually, by a policeman at the base. They resembled the signals already in use for trains, with semaphore arms and red and green gas lamps for nighttime use. The first traffic lights date back to 1868 when they were installed outside the Houses of Parliament in London. 18 Symbol on some traffic lights : YELLOW ARROW He was tried on a trumped-up charge of stealing from a temple, sentenced to death and was thrown off a cliff. Aesop was sent to the city of Delphi on a diplomatic mission but instead insulted the Delphians. Supposedly he was born a slave, somehow became a free man, but then met with a sorry end. Aesop lived in ancient Greece, probably around the sixth century BC. 15 Greek storyteller : AESOPĪesop is remembered today as a fabulist, a writer of fables. The system used by the US Navy was called “Radio Detection And Ranging”, which was shortened to the acronym “RADAR”. The British called their system RDF standing for Range and Direction Finding. Scientists have been using radio waves to detect the presence of objects since the late 1800s, but it was the demands of WWII that accelerated the practical application of the technology. Today’s Wiki-est Amazonian Googlies Across ![]()
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