Animals as verbs To
"horse" around means to goof off, to "crow" means to brag,
to "bull" up means to become stubborn, to "snake" around
means to be sneaky, to "weasel" into something also means to be
sneaky, to "cow" means to be intimidate someone, to "fox"
means to outwit, to "rabbit" means to babble about something, to
"dog" is to remain persistently attached to. http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/animal-verbs.130982/
Phubbing refers to the practice of ignoring one’s companion or
companions in order to pay attention to one’s phone or other mobile
device. The word is a blend of phone and snub. It was invented in 2012 as part of a guerrilla
marketing campaign to promote
the Macquarie dictionary in Australia.
Instead of promoting the word directly, they got other people to use it,
targeting journalists through an astroturfing ‘Stop Phubbing’ campaign which
succeeded in generating news stories which used the word. Phub popped up on Oxford’s New Monitor
Corpus, which is designed to identify emerging vocabulary, in July 2013, and it
surged in frequency the following month.
By the time the true story behind the campaign was revealed in October
of that year, some of my colleagues had even begun to mention it as a potential
Word of the Year candidate. Katherine
Connor Martin http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2016/05/phub-made-eat-words/
Feedback to article on Grace Hopper from a Muse reader:
I remember Grace Hopper attending an ACM Conference in Toledo, February
1981. Also, really enjoyed the book, The
Innovators, which is about computing pioneers.
What an amazing woman. Oh yeah, I picked her up at the Toledo airport
and returned her to the same.
February 4, 2015 In the closing pages of his epic 2007
biography “Einstein: His Life and Universe,” author Walter Isaacson observed that Albert Einstein not only was a
scientist who sought a unified theory that could explain the cosmos. Einstein also was a humanist who believed that
freedom was the lifeblood of creativity.
“Perhaps the most important aspect of his personality,” Isaacson wrote,
“was his willingness to be a non-conformist.” Isaacson cites a forward that
Einstein wrote, late in his life, to a new edition of Galileo. The theme that I recognize in Galileo’s work,”
Einstein wrote, “is the passionate fight against any kind of dogma based on
authority.” “The world has seen a lot of
impudent geniuses,” Isaacson concludes. In
his latest work of history, “The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks
Created the Digital Revolution,” Isaacson returns to these themes once more. Impudence, yes. Genius, for sure. Yet “The Innovators” veers radically away from
Isaacson’s exhaustive study of the lone brilliance of Einstein, much less the
petulant independence captured in his award-winning biography of Steve Jobs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXSJzWxh0yo
John C. Hollar Read much more at http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/insight-into-the-innovators/
Antirhodos (sometimes Antirrhodos or Anti Rhodes) was an island in the eastern harbor
of Alexandria, Egypt, on which a Ptolemaic palace was sited. The island was occupied until the reigns
of Septimius Severus and Caracalla and it probably sank in the 4th century,
when it succumbed to earthquakes and a tsunami following an earthquake in the eastern
Mediterranean near Crete in the year 365. The site now lies underwater, near the
seafront of modern Alexandria, at a depth of approximately five metres
(16 ft). Descriptions of the island
were recorded in classical antiquity by
Greek geographers and historians. Strabo described a royal house on Antirhodos in 27
BC and wrote that the island's name ("counter-Rhodes") derived
from the island's rivalry with the island of Rhodes. Antirhodos was part of Alexandria's
ancient royal port called the Portus Magnus, which
also included parts of the Lochias peninsula in the East and the island
of Pharos in the
West. The Portus Magnus was abandoned
and left as an open bay after an earthquake in the 8th century. On the
esplanade the explorer Franck Goddio uncovered the remains of a
relatively modest (90 metres by 30 metres) marble-floored 3rd century BC
palace, believed to have been Cleopatra's royal quarters. Md. Anwar Hossain Rubel See
many pictures at http://rubeliba.blogspot.com/2016/09/sunken-city-antirhodos-lost-kingdom-of.html
The Pharos at Alexandria was the last structure to be named on Antipater of Sidon's list of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. It was constructed at the beginning of the 3rd
century BCE, begun by Ptolemy Soter, the ruler of the Egyptian region after the
death of Alexander the Great in 323 BCE. It
was impressive in its construction and scale, and legends claim that its light
(a reflective mirror) was visible in the harbor from 35 miles away. The Pharos (which has become a generic
term for lighthouse) was actually located on the tiny limestone island of
Pharos that sat in front of the harbor of what would become Alexandria. When Alexander the Great arrived in Egypt in 332 BCE, Pharos was a shrine and
home to Proteus, a sea god. When
Alexander and his troops took Memphis (the ancient Egyptian capital) and
defeated the occupying Persians, the Egyptian people were elated, and accepted
him as their new Pharaoh. As Alexander and his troops further explored
their new territory, they happened upon a small fishing village called
Rhacotis. Its strategic location (on the
coast) caught Alexander's eye, and he proclaimed that a new capital city,
Alexandria, was to be built there. Immense and opulent, this city would be home
to beautiful art and architecture, as well as all of the most influential literature in
ancient history in its fabled Library. The Pharos at Alexandria stood and remained in use
until two earthquakes, in 1303 and 1323 CE, reduced it to rubble. In 1994 CE, underwater archaeologists located
some of the remains of the lighthouse in the Alexandrian Harbor, and more have
recently been located using remote imaging. Some remains of the Pharos were also used in
the construction of Fort Qaitbey in the 15th century CE, which stands on the
very same spot to this day. http://www.ancient.eu/article/130/ Find a map of "the conventional
list" of the Seven Wonders of the World and a map of Alexandria between a
list of principal characters and Chapter 1 in Alexandria, a Marcus Didius Falco
novel by Lindsey Davis
Consist, comprise and compose are all verbs used to describe what something is
‘made of’. We only use the active form
of consist of: Their flat consists of two
bedrooms, a kitchen and a bathroom. Comprise is
more formal than consist: The USA comprises 50
states. We can also use it
in the passive voice in the form ‘be comprised of’: The
course is comprised of ten lectures and five seminars on the
theory of economics and banking. Compose
of is even more formal than consist of and comprise.
Compose of is only used in the passive voice: Muscle is
composed of different types of protein.
On January 17, 2017 the National Book Critics Circle announced
its 30 finalists in six categories––autobiography, biography, criticism,
fiction, nonfiction, and poetry––for the outstanding books of 2016. The awards will be presented on March 16, 2017
at the New School in New York City. The
ceremony is free and open to the public.
Find the complete list of NBCC Award
finalists for the publishing year 2016 and winners of three additional prizes (The Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award,
The John Leonard Prize and Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing) at http://www.bookcritics.org/
http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com Issue 1679
January 18, 2017 On this date in 1778, James Cook was the first known European to
discover the Hawaiian Islands, which he named the
"Sandwich Islands". On this
date in 1886, modern hockey was born with the formation of The Hockey Association
in England.
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