To use semaphore code, an operator holds a flag or lighted wand in each hand. The operator extends their arms to the correct position and pauses for each letter of the message. "Attention" is the only signal that involves movement and the "rest" position is the only time when the flags should cross.
http://www.braingle.com/brainteasers/codes/semaphore.php

George Eastman (1854-1932) created a lightweight, rollable film by coating paper with emulsion This paper film fit into another invention---a roll holder that attached to the back of a camera. Photographers would no longer have to take pictures one glass plate at a time. The pictures taken by the new camera also had an unusual name: "snapshots"-- a hunting term meaning to shoot a gun without aiming. In fact, the Kodak had no viewfinder and couldn't be aimed accurately. Eastman said: "I devised the name myself. A trademark should be short, vigorous, incapable of being misspelled.... It must mean nothing. If the name has no dictionary definition, it must be associated only with your product...." http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eastman/filmmore/transcript/transcript1.html

News or drama?
“Mrs. Ann Windsor succeeds the late Mr. Stevens as Organist of St. Michael’s Church.” South Carolina Gazette. June 11, 1772
“Mrs. Windsor does not succeed Mr. Stevens, as Organist of St. Michael’s Church as mentioned in out last. We were misinformed. She is only on trial; there being another candidate in the son of Mr. Stevens.” South Carolina Gazette, June 18, 1772
“A church squabble of ten years’ standing at Wallpack Centre, N.J. has developed a very singular phase . . . a part of the congregation wanted the organist and singers of their choice, while others were opposed to them . . . the feelings had been getting more and more bitter . . . on gathering at the church, the congregation was amazed to find that someone had entered the building and after daubing the organ inside and out with tar, had sprinkled on a bountiful supply of feathers . . . “ The News and Observer, Raleigh, N.C. October 26, 1883
The American Organist October 2008

Generally the Eastern Hemisphere includes most of Africa, about half of Antarctica, all of Asia and Australia/Oceania, and most of Europe. The Western Hemisphere includes about half of Antarctica and all of North and South America which includes the Caribbean, Central America and Greenland. The Northern Hemisphere includes all of North America, the northern reaches of South America, about two-thirds of Africa, all of Asia excluding (parts of Indonesia) and all of Europe. The Southern Hemisphere includes of most of South America, one-third of Africa, all of Antarctica, a small sliver of Asia (parts of Indonesia) and all of Australia/Oceania.
Find the exceptions and maps and lists of countries at the following site: http://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/hemispheres.htm

archipelago (ahr-kuh-PEL-uh-go) noun: A large group of islands
From Italian arcipelago (the Aegean Sea), from Latin Egeopelagus, from arkhi- (chief) + pelagos (sea). Ultimately from the Indo-European root plak- (to be flat) which is also the source of words such as flake, flaw, placate, plead, please, and plank. Originally the term referred to the Aegean Sea (an arm of the Mediterranean Sea, between Greece and Turkey) that has numerous islands.
Used as metaphor: "'The Hungry Tide' is an archipelago of stories braided by the tidal channels that weave among them." Richard Eder; In the Mouth of the Ganges; Los Angeles Times; May 22, 2005. A.Word.A.Day

The ancient Greeks sailed into the dazzling turquoise bays of Corsica and declared the island Kalliste: the Most Beautiful Henri Matisse strode down a gangplank many centuries later and found a “marvelous land,” where “all is color, all is light.” The island is part of France, but the ancient Corsican language is still spoken and sung.
http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/travel/31corsica.html

Paisley, a material of brightly colored abstract design featuring teardrop-shaped swirls, is named for a 19th-century textile center in Scotland.
http://www.alphadictionary.com/articles/eponyms/eponym_list_pq.html

Y as a vowel—some examples are gypsy, pygmy, rhythm—see others at following link:
http://www.resourceroom.net/readspell/wordlists/closed/closedywords.asp