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Feb 3, 2022 · Measure the sugar into a chilled old-fashioned glass and add the bitters. Splash in the club soda or water. Add the whiskey and ice. Stir the whole shebang with a barspoon for about 30 seconds ...
Jun 27, 2020 · Some believe Dixie derives from the Mason-Dixon line, between Maryland and Pennsylvania. The line was drawn in 1767 to resolve a border dispute between the colonies but later became the informal ...
Nov 3, 2014 · Seventy years ago this fall, the word "genocide" made its debut into the English language, on page 79 of the 674-page Axis Rule in Occupied Europe [which you can find here in Reading 3 ], in a chapter called "Genocide—A New Term and New Conception for Destruction of Nations." The writer was Raphael Lemkin, a Polish-born lawyer who had fled ...
Jan 17, 2023 · By 1881, the term “boycott” was now being used to describe things figuratively, with one article in The Spectator describing how nature had “Boycotted London from Kew to Mile End.”. Less than a year after the boycott on Boycott, the word was a staple of the English language worldwide. So there you have it, the interesting and very ...
May 8, 2011 · There is no relation between the two words. logarithm: 1610s, Mod.L. logarithmus, coined by Scottish mathematician John Napier (1550-1617), lit. "ratio-number," from Gk. logos "proportion, ratio, word". algorithm: was derived from the name of 8th century Persian mathematcian al-Kwarizmi. Note: I think it's unusual for a term to derive from a ...
Mar 29, 2022 · The Mysterious Origins Of The Month Of April’s Name. Mark Twain once wrote: “This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.”. Twain’s referring to the first day of April or, as it’s often known, April Fools’ Day. While the first day of the fourth month of the year is sure to ...
Jul 29, 2013 · The first time I saw the word was in a Cambridge Entrance Examination past-paper (either in Maths or Natural Sciences). I was preparing for Cambridge in 1976, so the paper was probably '73, '74 ...
