Finnegan pin noun a non-existent part or tool; a thing whose
name is forgotten or unknown; a doo-dad or thingamajig. http://www.waywordradio.org/finnegan_pin/
The Chechen Republic commonly referred to as Chechnya, also spelled Chechnia
or Chechenia, sometimes referred to as Ichkeria (English:
Land of Minerals), is a federal subject (a republic) of Russia. It is located in the southeastern part of Europe in the North
Caucasus mountains. The capital
of the republic is the city of Grozny. As of the 2010 Census, the republic had a population of
1,268,989. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in
1991, the Chechen-Ingush ASSR
was split into two: the Republic of Ingushetia and the Chechen
Republic. The latter proclaimed the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, which
sought independence. Following the First
Chechen War with Russia, Chechnya gained de facto independence as
the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria. Russian federal control was restored during
the Second Chechen War. Since then there has been a systematic
reconstruction and rebuilding process, though sporadic fighting continues in the
mountains and southern regions of the republic.
The languages used in the Republic are Chechen
and Russian. Chechen belongs to the Vaynakh or North-central Caucasian language
family, which also includes Ingush
and Batsb.
Some scholars place it in a wider Iberian-Caucasian super-family. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chechnya
Alexander McCall Smith (b. 1948) in Bulawayo, in
the then British colony of Southern
Rhodesia (present-day Zimbabwe), where his father worked as a public prosecutor. He was educated at the Christian Brothers College
before moving to Scotland to study law at the University of Edinburgh, where he earned
his PhD
in law. He soon taught at Queen's University Belfast, and while
teaching there he entered a literary competition: one a children's book and the other a novel
for adults. He won in the children's
category, and published thirty books in the 1980s and 1990s. He returned to southern
Africa in 1981 to help co-found and teach law at the University of Botswana. While there, he cowrote what remains the only
book on the country's legal system, The Criminal Law of Botswana (1992).
He returned in 1984 to Edinburgh, Scotland, where
he lives today with his wife, Elizabeth, a physician, and their two daughters
Lucy and Emily. He was Professor of
Medical Law at the University of Edinburgh at one time and is now Emeritus Professor at its School of Law. He retains a further involvement with the
University in relation to the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He is the former chairman of the British Medical Journal Ethics
Committee (until 2002), the former vice-chairman of the Human Genetics Commission of the United
Kingdom, and a former member of the International
Bioethics Commission of UNESCO. He is an
amateur bassoonist,
and co-founder of The Really Terrible Orchestra. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_McCall_Smith
Alexander McCall Smith--full bibliography and
series guides to:
To jibe is to be in harmony or accord with. Surprisingly, jibe also means “to shift
from one side to the other when running before the wind, as a fore-and-aft sail
or its boom.”
To gibe is to jeer, taunt, or deride. Or, as a noun, gibes are insults.http://www.manhattanprep.com/gre/blog/index.php/2010/10/20/easily-confused-words-jibe-and-gibe/
Netherlandish Proverbs (also called The Blue Cloak or The
Topsy Turvy World) is a 1559 oil-on-oak-panel
painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder that depicts a
land populated with literal renditions of Dutch
proverbs of the day. The picture is
overflowing with references and most of the representations can still be
identified; while many of the proverbs have either been forgotten or never made the
transition to the English language, some are still in use. Proverbs were popular during Bruegel's time: a number of collections were published including
a famous work by Erasmus. Frans
Hogenberg had produced an engraving illustrating about 40 proverbs in around 1558 and
Bruegel himself had painted a collection of Twelve Proverbs on
individual panels by 1558 and had also produced Big Fish Eat Little Fish
in 1556, but Netherlandish Proverbs is thought to be the first large
scale painting on the theme. Rabelais depicted a land of proverbs in his novel
Pantagruel soon after in 1564. There are around 112 identifiable idioms in
the scene (although Bruegel may have included others). Some are still in use today, amongst them:
"swimming against the tide", "big fish eat little fish",
"banging one's head against a brick wall" and "armed
to the teeth", and there are some that are familiar if not identical
to the modern English usage, such as "casting roses before swine". See proverbs, meanings, and location in the
painting at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlandish_Proverbs
When did Mother's Day begin?
* In
1858, when Anna Jarvis, a young Appalachian homemaker, organized "Mother's
Work Days" to improve the sanitation and avert deaths from disease-bearing
insects and seepage of polluted water.
* In
1872, when Boston poet, pacifist and women's suffragist Julia Ward Howe
established a special day for mothers --and for peace-- not long after the
bloody Franco-Prussian War.* In 1905, when Anna Jarvis died. Her daughter, also named Anna, decided to memorialize her mother's lifelong activism, and began a campaign that culminated in 1914 when Congress passed a Mother's Day resolution. The correct answer: All of the above. Each woman and all of these events have contributed to the present occasion now celebrated on the second Sunday in May.
The younger Anna Jarvis was only twelve years old in 1878 when she listened to her mother teach a Sunday school lesson on mothers in the Bible. "I hope and pray that someone, sometime, will found a memorial mother's day," the senior Jarvis said. "There are many days for men, but none for mothers." Following her mother's death, Anna Jarvis embarked on a remarkable campaign. She poured out a constant stream of letters to men of prominence -- President William Taft and former President Theodore Roosevelt among them -- and enlisted considerable help from Philadelphia merchant John Wanamaker. By May of 1907, a Mother's Day service had been arranged on the second Sunday in May at the Methodist Church in Grafton, West Virginia, where Mother Jarvis had taught. That same day a special service was held at the Wanamaker Auditorium in Philadelphia, which could seat no more than a third of the 15,000 people who showed up. The custom spread to churches in 45 states and in Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Mexico and Canada. The Governor of West Virginia proclaimed Mother's Day in 1912; Pennsylvania's governor in 1913 did the same. The following year saw the Congressional Resolution, which was promptly signed by President Woodrow Wilson.
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