The hit musical “Mamma Mia!” was written to showcase the songs of ABBA. The usage of “demise” extended in the mid-1700s to the contemporary meaning of “death, downfall”. 46 Undoing : DEMISEīack in the 1400s, a demise was the transfer of an estate via a will. The intensive care unit (ICU) is where many patients head after leaving the operating room (OR). Ohm was the guy who established experimentally that the amount of current flowing through a circuit is directly proportional to the voltage applied, (V=IR) a relationship that every school kid knows as Ohm’s Law. The unit of electrical resistance is the ohm (with the symbol omega) named after German physicist Georg Simon Ohm. We sometimes use the term “siren” today to describe a seductively charming woman. On hearing their song Odysseus begged to be let loose, but the sailors just tightened his bonds and the whole crew sailed away unharmed. He had his men plug their ears with beeswax and then ordered them to tie him to the mast and not to free him until they were safe. When Odysseus sailed close to the island home of the Sirens he wanted to hear their voices, but in safety. In Greek mythology, the Sirens were seductive bird-women who lured men to their deaths with their song. “Wiki” is a Hawaiian word for “quick”, and is used because comprehensive content is created very quickly, as there are so many collaborators contributing to the site. The term “wiki” comes from the name of the first such site, introduced in 1994 and called WikiWikiWeb. 37 Crowdsourced source, briefly : WIKIĪ wiki is a website on which users are allowed to create and edit content themselves. Today, “Reader’s Digest” has about 100 million readers in 163 countries worldwide. The initial print runs were limited to about 5,000 copies. Lila Wallace founded the “Reader’s Digest” along with her husband in 1922, and initially operated out of a basement office in New York City. 29 Reader’s Digest co-founder Wallace : LILA He is a wizard known as Gandalf the Grey during his lifetime, and as Gandalf the White after he returns from the dead. Tolkien novels “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy. Gandalf is an important character in the J. MPs (military police officers) often track down personnel who go AWOL (absent without leave). The term “faux pas” is French in origin, and translates literally as “false step” (or “false steps”, as the plural has the same spelling in French). 18 Commits an email faux pas : REPLIES ALL The 1931 Rudy Vallee version was re-released that year and became an even bigger hit second time round. Poor Dooley didn’t get to record it as a single, due to a musician’s strike in 1943. But today we all remember the Casablanca version, sung by Dooley Wilson (who played “Sam” in the film). The signature song “As Time Goes By” was written many years earlier for a 1931 Broadway musical called “Everybody’s Welcome”, and was a hit in 1931 for Rudy Vallee. The film wasn’t a box-office hit, but gained critical acclaim, winning three Oscars including Best Picture. The movie “Casablanca” was released in January of 1943, timed to coincide with the Casablanca Conference, the high-level meeting between Roosevelt and Churchill. 17 To whom Rick says, “The Germans wore gray. Our word “azure”, a shade of blue, has the same root. “Lapis Lazuli” is Latin for “stone of Lazhward”, referring to the Persian name for the location where the stone was mined. Lapis lazuli is a blue, semi-precious stone mined mainly in Afghanistan. Harrows break up and smooth just the surface soil, often after plowing. Plows are used to bring deep soil to the surface, and to bury weeds so that they decay and release nutrients. Harrows and plows have similar uses, in that they both break up the soil.
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