Ponce de León led the Europeans to Florida, and it was he who gave the state its name (Spanish for “Flowery Land”). Juan Ponce de León was a famous Spanish explorer and conquistador. Atticus is the father of Jean Louise “Scout” Finch, the narrator of the piece, and of Scout’s older brother Jeremy Atticus “Jem” Finch. : GIRLĪtticus Finch is the protagonist in Harper Lee’s great novel “To Kill a Mockingbird”. 48 Scout in “To Kill a Mockingbird,” e.g. The day before All Saints’ Day is All Hallows’ Eve, better known by the Scottish term “Halloween”. 44 Like designers of Halloween costumes? : FRIGHT-MINDEDĪll Saints’ Day is November 1st each year. One of the more famous English translations was for the song “Seasons in the Sun”, a big hit in 1974 for Canadian singer Terry Jacks. Jacques Brel was a songwriter from Belgium whose songs were most popular in France, although English translations of his works became hits for artists all around the world. She also co-starred in the revue for two years in the late sixties, and in a revival of the show in 2006. One of her more direct connections to Brel is the revue “Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris” that Stone co-wrote with her husband. 43 _ Stone, co-star of the “Jacques Brel” musicals : ELLYĮlly Stone was an actress and singer noted for performing works by Belgian songwriter Jacques Brel. So, maybe I am excused for taking two decades living in the US to work out that a football field gridiron is so called because the layout of yard lines over the field looks like a gridiron used in cooking. We never used the word “gridiron” when I was growing up in Ireland (meaning a grill used for cooking food over an open fire). The narrow bowl of a champagne flute is usually preferred over the wide bowl of a champagne coupe as the smaller surface area of the wine helps retain its carbonation. The beautiful color teal takes its name from the duck called a teal, which has dark greenish-blue (teal) markings on its head and wings. The latter is a German sausage that is prepared by boiling in water, just like a hot dog frank. The frankfurter sausage that is typically used in a North American hot dog gets its name from Frankfurter Würstchen. 24 First-time hot-dog griller? : FRANK AMATEUR “Texas tea” is a familiar term for oil drilled from the earth. The use of the verb “to drop” was popular slang long before LSD came on the scene, and back then applied to the taking of any illegal drug. Someone taking the drug LSD is often said to be “dropping acid”. Jones asked that he go uncredited for the first two “Star Wars” films, feeling that his contributions were insufficient to warrant recognition. In the original films, Darth Vader was portrayed by English bodybuilder David Prowse, and voiced by actor James Earl Jones. Born as Anakin “Ani” Skywalker, he was corrupted by the Emperor Palpatine and turned to “the Dark Side”. 18 Vader’s choice : DARK SIDEĭarth Vader is (to me) the most colorful antagonist in the “Star Wars” universe. The Peace Prize is awarded by the Norwegian Nobel Committee, and is presented in Oslo. Four of the prizes are awarded by Swedish organizations (Alfred Nobel was a Swede) and so the award ceremonies take place in Stockholm. There is also a Nobel Prize in Economics that is awarded along with the original five, but it is funded separately and is awarded “in memory of Alfred Nobel”. The others are for Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Literature. The Peace Prize is the most famous of the five prizes bequeathed by Alfred Nobel. 16 Nobel Prize presentation, say : CEREMONY Element number 101 is mendelevium and was named after Mendeleev. So powerful was his table that he actually predicted the properties of some elements that had not even been discovered in 1869. When Mendeleev classified elements according to their chemical properties, he noticed patterns and was able to group elements into his famous 1869 Periodic Table. Today’s Wiki-est Amazonian Googlies Acrossĭmitri Mendeleev was a Russian chemist.
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