![]() ![]() When firing a gun, a “potshot” is a “shot” taken purely to get the prey into the “pot” for cooking. It states that every even integer greater than 2 can be expressed as the sum of two prime numbers. This conjecture dates back to the 1740s and is assumed to be true, but has never been proven. There are still some unanswered questions involving prime numbers, perhaps most notably Goldbach’s Conjecture. Oom-pah-pah … 51 Like almost all prime numbers : ODDĪ prime number is a number greater than 1 that can only be divided evenly by 1 and itself. “Tuba” is the Latin word for “trumpet, horn”. The tuba is the lowest-pitched of all brass instruments, and one of the most recent additions to the modern symphony orchestra (usually there is just one tuba included in an orchestral line-up). The ceramic known as “porcelain” can be referred to as “china” or “fine china”, as porcelain was developed in China. The band’s name went through a few iterations, starting out as the Teenagers, then the Wailing Rudeboys, the Wailing Wailers, and finally the Wailers. The Wailers were a band, formed in Jamaica in 1963, whose most famous member was Bob Marley. 39 Bob Marley and the Wailers, for one : REGGAE BAND The Korean won, Chinese yuan, and Japanese yen (all of which are Asian currencies) take their names from the Chinese written character that represents “round shape”. In Act III, Hamlet is pretty depressed and upset, and addresses Ophelia with the famous line “Get thee to a nunn’ry, why woulds’t thou be a breeder of sinners?” In this scene, Hamlet is denying that he ever loved Ophelia, and exhorts her to “become a nun”, so that she may never have to give birth to someone as pitiful and sinful as himself. In Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”, Ophelia is courted by Hamlet. 34 Daughter of Polonius, in Shakespeare : OPHELIA ![]() The term has been extended to mean the illegal production and sale of just about anything. The term arose in the late 1800s as slang for the practice of concealing a flask of liquor down the leg of a high boot. To bootleg is to make or smuggle alcoholic drinks illegally. This modulation-demodulation gives the device its name: a MOdulator-DEModulator, or “modem”. At the other end of the line, a modem is used to “demodulate” the analog carrier signal and so reproduce the original digital information. At one end of the line, a modem is used to “modulate” an analog carrier signal to encode digital information. 25 One might help with a connection : MODEMĪ modem is a device that is used to facilitate the transmission of a digital signal over an analog line. The Greek word “halos” is the name given to the ring of light around the sun or moon, which gives us our word “halo” that is used for a radiant light depicted above the head of a saintly person. ![]() By the way, the yucca is in the asparagus family. New Mexico adopted the yucca as its state flower in 1927. Yuccas has a unique pollination system, with moths transferring pollen from plant to plant. One of the more famous species of Yucca is the Joshua tree. Yuccas are a genus of shrubs and trees that live in hot and dry areas of North and South America. As a result, “The Lovebirds” was the top-streamed title on Netflix on the weekend it became available. Netflix stepped in and bought it for online release. The film’s release schedule was disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. “The Lovebirds” is a 2020 romantic comedy movie starring Issa Rae and Kumail Nanjiani as a couple on the run after witnessing a murder. “Awkward Black Girl” was adapted into an HBO comedy-drama called “Insecure”, in which Issa Rae stars. Rae also plays the title role in the series, a young lady named “J”. Issa Rae is a Stanford University graduate who created a YouTube web series called “The Mis-Adventures of Awkward Black Girl”. The voice was modeled on a grumpy New York cab driver encountered one day by Caroll Spinney, the puppeteer who brings Oscar to life. Oscar’s personality was inspired by an angry waiter that once served Jim Henson (father of the Muppets). He is named after Oscar Brand who was one of the board members of the Children’s Television Workshop, the backers for “Sesame Street” as the Muppets were being developed in the sixties. Oscar’s persona comes from various sources. Oscar the Grouch is the Muppet who lives in a garbage can. X (223) Nita Jaggi (217) M.Today’s Wiki-est Amazonian Googlies Acrossĥ Children’s character who sings “I Love Trash” : OSCAR ![]()
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