![]() ![]() 47 Health legislation of 2010, in brief : ACA The title character, played by Rachel Brosnahan, is a New York housewife who opts for a career as a standup comedian. ![]() Maisel” is a comedy drama TV show set in the late fifties and early sixties. It is a sister show to the soap opera “The Bold and the Beautiful”, and so the two series share some actors and characters. “The Young and the Restless” is a soap opera that has been on the air since 1973. And that’s how the “soap” opera got its name … For some reason the sponsors of those radio shows, and the television shows that followed, were soap manufacturers like Procter & Gamble, Colgate-Palmolive and Lever Brothers. Given the structure of society back then, the daytime broadcasts were aimed at women working in the home as housewives. The original soap operas were radio dramas back in the fifties. 41 “The Young and the Restless” and “The Bold and the Beautiful” : SOAPS In flashbacks, young Otto is played by Truman Hanks, one of Tom Hanks’ sons. It is a remake of the 2015 Swedish film “A Man Called Ove”, which in turn is an adaptation of the 2012 novel of the same name by Fredrik Backman. “A Man Called Otto” is a marvelous 2022 comedy-drama movie starring Tom Hanks as a grumpy old man who gets dragged, reluctantly, into the lives of his neighbors. Caspar (also “Gaspar”): a scholar from IndiaĪnd my schedule, and I’m no newborn … 34 “A Man Called _” (Tom Hanks film) : OTTO.In Western Christianity, the three Biblical Magi are: Hence, “magi” is commonly used with reference to the “wise men from the East” who followed the star and visited Jesus soon after he was born. “Magi” is the plural of the Latin word “magus”, a term applied to someone who was able to read the stars. 26 Three wise men : MAGI (MAGIC HAT – CHAT) Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, where you can see it today. But, the buyer didn’t actually have the necessary funds, so it had to be resold in 1990. ![]() “Irises” was bought for $53.9 million in 1987, making it the most expensive painting sold up to that point. The original owner was a French art critic and supporter of van Gogh who paid 300 francs to purchase the painting. Van Gogh painted his “Irises” while he was in an asylum in the south of France the year before he committed suicide. 24 Painting by van Gogh during his time in an asylum : IRISES The unit is named for the German physicist Wilhelm Eduard Weber who was the co-inventor of the electromagnetic telegraph. In the world of physics, the weber is the unit of magnetic flux. 23 Greek letter used to represent magnetic flux : PHI The flag of Nepal is the only national flag in the world in the shape of two pennants (two triangles, one atop the other). 21 Only country with a nonrectangular flag : NEPAL An accent is often added by mistake when we use the word in English, perhaps meaning to suggest that the word is French. Note that in the correct spelling of “latte”, the Italian word for milk there is no accent over the “e”. The term “latte” is an abbreviation of the Italian “caffelatte” meaning “coffee (and) milk”. The San Antonio Chili Stand was a popular attraction at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, and that stand introduced the dish to the rest of America and to the world. The dish was created by immigrants from the Spanish Canary Islands in the city of San Antonio, Texas (a city which the islanders founded). The full name of the dish that is often called simply “chili” is “chili con carne”, Spanish for “peppers with meat”. 17 Chili ingredients : BEANS (BEANSTALK – TALK) The Marne was the site of two major battles in WWI, one fought in 1914, and one in 1918. The River Marne runs roughly northwestward for over 300 miles, running into the River Seine just outside Paris. I battle that saved Paris from capture : MARNE It is speculated that Andersen was the illegitimate son of the Crown Prince of Denmark, and that he wrote the story of the ugly duckling that turned into a beautiful swan as a metaphor for the secret royal lineage that was within Andersen himself. Unlike so many fairy tales, “The Ugly Duckling” isn’t based on any folklore and is simply a product of Andersen’s imagination. Hans Christian Andersen’s tale “The Ugly Duckling” has to be one of the most endearing ever written. The term comes from the Latin “omnis” meaning “all” and “scientia” meaning “knowledge”. Omniscience is the quality of having complete knowledge and awareness. People from the Indian subcontinent might refer to themselves as “desi”. Today’s Wiki-est Amazonian Googlies Across ![]()
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