![]() ![]() Keene is home to Keene State College as well as Antioch University New England. The New Hampshire city of Keene was named in 1753 after Sir Benjamin Keene, who was the British Ambassador to Spain at the time. 35 New Hampshire college town that sounds peachy : KEENE Since then, Wham-O has marketed a string of hit toys including the Hula Hoop, Frisbee, Slip ‘N Slide, Silly String, Hacky Sack and Boogie Board. Wham-O was founded in 1948, with the company’s first product being the Wham-O slingshot. “Fútbol” is the Spanish word for “football, soccer”. The sheltered side of an island, for example, might be referred to as the “lee” side. If a sailor points into the wind, he or she is pointing aweather. ![]() 28 Out of the wind : ALEEĪlee is the direction away from the wind. In Spanish, a “rata” (female rat) is the mate of a “rato” (male rat). “Noob” is a not-so-nice slang term for a “newbie”, and often refers to someone who is new to an online community. 19 Tide competitor : ERAĮra was the first liquid laundry detergent produced by Procter & Gamble. I guess the idea is that the hearth is usually the focus of a room. “Focus” is a Latin word meaning “hearth, fireplace”. 14 Sharpen the image in the viewfinder : FOCUSĪ focus (plural “foci”) is a point of convergence, or a center of activity. “Frisk” somehow took on the meaning “pat down in a search” in the late 1700s. 11 Frisk, as a suspect, with “down” : PAT …īack in the 1500s, the verb “to frisk” meant “to dance, frolic”, a sense that carries through to our contemporary adjective “frisky”. If one is capable, one might jokingly be described as “ept”, the ostensible opposite of “inept”. The captain of the anchored vessel has a daughter of marrying age. The Flying Dutchman’s ghost ship ties up alongside a vessel sheltering from an icy storm. A chance for salvation comes round once every seven years, if the Dutchman is able to find a wife who loves him. The title character is a sailor who is cursed to sail the seas forever on a ghostly ship. “The Flying Dutchman” (“Der fliegende Holländer” in German) is an opera by Richard Wagner. The requisites for chewing are: a small piece of areca nut, a leaf of the Sirih or betel pepper, a little moistened lime, and, if you wish to be very luxurious, a paste made of spices.Today’s Wiki-est Amazonian Googlies Acrossġ Wagner’s “The Flying Dutchman,” e.g. Of course, he was writing about coca, not cocaine, but the moment the alkaloid was isolated from the leaf they were assumed to be one and the same.Ĭhapare leaf meanwhile - large, high in alkaloid and no good for chewing at all - was excellent for processing into cocaine paste. Without care or consideration of ahimsa, Danlo reached up to the lowest branch of the tree above the bench, and he plucked off a single leaf.įor a moment he shook like a alder leaf in an autumn gale and then the sinister half-recollection faded and was gone before he could grasp its import. He opened the first agenda and leafed through the pages, stopping to point out several of the entries that had merited his attention.Ī leaf placed in milk had the contents of its cells somewhat aggregated in 1 hr.Ī leaf with aggregated masses, caused by its having been waved for 2 m. The degree of acidity of the secretion varied somewhat on the glands of the same leaf.įaith has suffered through the passing of the Greatest Holy Leaf is too immense to be adequately expressed in words, and we cannot fully realize its significance at the present stage of the evolution of the Cause.Ī man can hardly live there till next grass afore he is in the yaller leaf. ![]() The secretion with animal matter in solution is then drawn by capillary attraction over the whole surface of the leaf, causing all the glands to secrete and allowing them to absorb the diffused animal matter.Īfter a leaf had been left in a weak infusion of raw meat for 10 hours, the cells of the papillae had evidently absorbed animal matter, for instead of limpid fluid they now contained small aggregated masses of protoplasm, which slowly and incessantly changed their forms.īut certain it is that Netherlandish illumination, in its border foliages, after the taste for the larger vine and acanthus leaf had superseded the ivy, the drawing is studiously sculpturesque. It bore both the rich aroma of leaves being burnt in the fall and the faint perfume of wildflowers ablow in the spring, but it also held a third attar which seemed to be the breath of the Wind itself which none could ever set name to. ![]()
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