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Oxford, Exeter, Cardiff,
Ruthin, Peterborough,
London
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Trivia
Questions
(no fair using
Google)
1. What was Pope Pius XII's family name?
2. For what did Martin Luther condemn John Tetzel?
3. If a cow is a bovine, a horse an equine, and a sheep an ovine, to what species do goats belong?
4. What two dynasties fought the War of the Roses?
5. What were "the Sicilian Vespers"?
6. What future president fought in the Spanish-American War?
7. Who invented the Polaroid camera?
8. In what year was the Triangle Shirtwaist fire?
9. What Bristish drinking song provided the tune for the Star-Spangled-Banner?
10. Who was the leading man in the movie "This Property Is Condemn-ed"?
Seattle, Vancou-ver, Alaska, San
Diego
Here's Qaddafi (the Arabic letters might be reversed left to right):
Qaddafi: This is the best but still imperfect spelling; the next best is Gaddafi. The mangled variants are Kaddafi, Khadafi, Khadafy, Gadaffi, Qadhafi, Quadafi, Quadaffi, and Quadhafi. The G is used as a substandard visual and phonetic substitute for the back k: Q (q, a sound not in English). Both the internal dh (as in then) and its following a are geminated (doubled temporally); the final i (for adjectives, sons, clans, localities, associative words) is also long temporally: Mucammar al-Qadhdhaafii (ﻤﻌÜﻤÜﺮ ﺍﻠﻘÜﺬﺍﻔﻰ) ‘(that one, or son) of the rower, or oarsman’. There is another word derived from the same triliteral root: qadhdhaaf ‘bomber (plane)’, but the true surname is from the doubled medial consonant (C) and doubled following vowel (V) for ‘to row’. In Arabic that structured phenomenon is typical for an agent, maker, occupation, and nouns productive of something (CVCCVVC pattern), and long vowels attract stress.
Transatlantic
on QM2
Hi All! Anyone interested in donating goods to be auctioned off to
benefit the Animal ProtectiveAssociation of Missouri may contact me at
RWich928@aol.com. Items may be dropped off at my home, and can
include: Unused photographic and electronic/stereo items, jewelry, books,
tools, or most anything else of smaller size. The donor will in turn receive
a final value sales voucher via e-mail at auction end. Please help support
our canine and feline friends. I thank you in advance, and so do they!
Please visit www.apamo,org for upcoming events and information.
Rick Wichman
(Rick lives in a suburb of St Louis, MO)
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