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quixotic adjective
The word comes from the novel, Don Quixote. He is the romantic, impractical hero of Cervantes’ 1605/1615 satirical novel, Don Quixote de la Mancha (in English translation by 1620). As a type attempting the impossible or holding visionary but impossible ideals, the word is in English from the 1670s. His name literally means “thigh” and also “a cuisse”, which is a piece of armor for the thigh. The word in Modern Spanish is quijote and derives from Latin coxa meaning hip. It is alleged that quixotic is one of the most beautiful words in the English language. It combines the beautiful sounds of q, x, and k.
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Dives is a Latin name meaning “rich man.”
We spell Mardocheus as Mordecai. Robert is referring to the Book of Esther. The citation below spades a clump of Old Testament literary forms. I shocked a Catholic by mentioning literary forms in the Bible. “No, it’s the word of God”, she said. Be smarter. “Although the Book of Esther was questioned by some early Christians, even St. Jerome, the whole book, including the Greek additions, was included in the canon of Scripture by the Council of Trent.” https://bible.usccb.org/bible/esther/0 The way to tutor a gifted child is to enter into his or her world. For more than two years, Alexander has been employed to tutor me, and he has been very patient.
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Part of speech noun; origin French, 15th century; definition 1. Any part of a machine with a spiral movement, or 2. A whirlwind. Turbine Part of speech noun; origin French, attested 1838; definition “waterwheel driven by the impact or reaction of a flowing stream of water.” Turbō Part of speech noun; origin Latin; definition “spinning top, eddy, whirlwind, that which whirls.” Originally applied to a wheel spinning on a vertical axis driven by falling water, later of mechanisms driven by the flow of air, and still later, “turbo” in reference to gas turbine engines is attested from 1904. There’s the Fibonacci spiral again. Noun zephirum
 Leonardo is famous for the Fibonacci Sequence, which is pictured in geometric form above and in arithmetic form below. 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55 … The next number is found by adding up the two numbers before it. Word Sense Dictionary, Math is Fun, Wikipedia, and Quora helped me affix Latin to English to math, my favorite subjects. What comes next is unbelievable. Add asongscout of YouTube and Patreon.
Corpus omne perseverare in statu suo quiescendi vel movendi uniformiter in directum, nisi quatenus a viribus impressis cogitur statum illum mutare. “Every body preserves its state of rest or uniform movement in a straight line unless forced to change that state by forces impressed upon it.” Isaac Newton (b. 1643, d. 1727) Before 1700, scientific publications were primarily written in Latin. In 1687, Sir Isaac Newton wrote his book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, explaining the laws of motion and gravity, in Latin. Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica Title page of Principia, first edition (1687) Author Sir Isaac Newton Publication date 1687 (1st ed.) Published in English 1728 LC Class QA803 .A53 The first English translation appeared the year after he died. Does that mean everyone was reading Latin? At King Edward VI Grammar School, Shakespeare (d. 1616) learned to read Latin, and his familiarity with the drama of Plautus appears in The Comedy of Errors, which shows that Shakespeare could read it when he wanted to. There is no evidence to suggest he could read Greek.  Photo: Painting by Godfrey Kneller, via Wikimedia Commons//Getty Images
Rupert Brooke, described as ‘the handsomest young man in England’ by W. B. Yeats, “sailed with the British Mediterranean Expeditionary Force on 28 February 1915 but developed a severe gastroenteritis whilst stationed in Egypt followed by streptococcal sepsis from an infected mosquito bite. “French surgeons carried out two operations to drain the abscess, but he died of septicemia at 4:46 pm on 23 April 1915, on the French hospital ship Duguay-Trouin, moored in a bay off the Greek island of Skyros in the Aegean Sea, while on his way to the landings at Gallipoli. “As the expeditionary force had orders to depart immediately, Brooke was buried at 11 pm in an olive grove on Skyros. The site was chosen by his close friend, William Denis Browne, who wrote of Brooke’s death: “‘I sat with Rupert. At 4 o’clock he became weaker, and at 4:46 he died, with the sun shining all round his cabin, and the cool sea breeze blowing through the door and the shaded windows. No one could have wished for a quieter or a calmer end than in that lovely bay, shielded by the mountains and fragrant with sage and thyme.’” Education: Rugby School and King’s College, Cambridge (fellow) Death: age 27 Wikipedia ___________________________________________
Mary’s Son If you stop to find out what your wages will be And how they will clothe and feed you, Willie, my son, don't you go on the Sea, For the Sea will never need you. If you ask for the reason of every command, And argue with people about you, Willie, my son, don't you go on the Land, For the Land will do better without you. If you stop to consider the work you have done And to boast what your labour is worth, Angels may come for you, Willie, my son, But you’ll never be wanted on Earth! Kipling As a child of the 50s and even the 60s, I can attest to this: a society strictly bound by rules of etiquette and behavior produces children who are free. Outside of home and school we were free to do what we wanted, unsupervised, and ran until dinner tolled and order was restored until the next day at about 3, and it all happened again, and all day on weekends. To give a typical example, we lived about 10 blocks from Willie Mays in San Francisco. Hoping to see him outside, I rode my bicycle by his house frequently, and one day I was riding with my sister and another boy and said, “Why don’t we ring his doorbell and see if he is home?” I rang the doorbell, and his maid answered. I asked, “Can we see Willie Mays?” She said, “I’m so sorry. He’s not home.” I knew she was telling the truth because I could see the entire foyer and the stairs leading to the second floor. He would have heard and would have come to the door and greeted three little kids. YouTube Commenter 1 "Let me say at once that owing to the casualties in the war and various other things, there were very few people to elect. It's a pity you couldn't be here in the springtime when that tree there wouldn't look sad, but it'd be covered with leaves, you see. It would look old but not sad. And these, with all the limes obviously, however old they are, they're a lovely green in spring. I suppose. I have actually, in some simple-minded form of longing, actually would like to. I should've liked to be be able to make contact with a tree and find out what it feels about things. I first began to seriously invent languages about when I was 13 or 14. I've never stopped really." YouTube Commenter 2 He is speaking perfect English. When Tolkien mutters something, it automatically becomes an official part of the Oxford Dictionary. Tolkien initially read classics but changed his course in 1913 to English Language & Literature and graduated Oxford in 1915 with first-class honors.
This method is good for those nasty national exams of about one minute per question, the section without a calculator. “Because there are 12 reports to compile each month, the total number of reports in a year is the zenzic of 12.” The square root of 144 is a perfect square, thus no need for the shortcut.
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  Excelsior, Latin for “Ever Upward”
E Pluribus Unum, Latin for “Out of Many, One” What happened to the Latin that united our states? “Black Lives Matter (BLM) had an $8.5 million deficit, and its investment accounts lost nearly $10 million in value, according to 2022 tax records.” Listen to the Breitbart report.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/05/24/2022-tax-records-show-black-lives-matter-in-red-heading-toward-insolvency/ A chicken walks into a library clucking, “Book book book.”
He walks over to the main desk, looks up, and says, “Book book book.” After a bit of confusion, the librarian gives him a few books. The chicken quietly takes them and walks out. The next day, the chicken comes back. He places the books the librarian had given him on the desk and says, “Book book book.” The librarian gives him three new books, and the chicken walks out. This goes on for a week. Every day, the chicken comes in, returns the previous day’s books, and gets three new ones. “Book book book” is all he ever says. Eventually, the librarian can’t contain his curiosity and decides to follow the chicken. He keeps his distance as the chicken, carrying that day’s books, walks into the woods toward a local swamp. The chicken reaches the swamp and finds a frog sitting on a lily pad. He holds up the books for the frog to see and says, “Book book book!” The frog turns away, shakes his head, and says, “Reddit. Reddit. Reddit.” Courtesy of ESG on reddit.com What does the Latin word reddere mean? It is a verb meaning, “to pay back or render.” The verb in its different conjugations appears in the 1962 Latin/English Missal. From a contributor on reddit.com: “Also, there are some unintentional but interesting Latin meanings to the word. It turns out, the Latin meaning is ‘to submit for consideration or approval,’ as if it were typed on proverbial stone ages ago.”
Biden tells a New Hampshire crowd of ‘having had a house burn down with my wife in it …’ The Associated Press reports, it was a minor kitchen fire, with no damage visible from outside. He talks about a chat with an Amtrak conductor in his seventh year as vice president, when the guy retired 15 years before Biden became V.P. and was dead by the year of the tale. He claims he was offered a job by an Idaho lumber company; they have no record. He claims he ‘used to drive’ an 18-wheeler — it didn’t happen. He says he visited Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue after the 2018 massacre and spoke to the rabbi, when the synagogue says he’s never even been there. He exaggerates, as when he chats with Gold Star families about his late son Beau as if he’d died in action, rather than of brain cancer. He insists the border surge is ‘seasonal’. He calls his disastrous Afghan withdrawal a ‘success’ while falsely claiming his generals didn’t object.
San Francisco’s Narrative Magazine is a platform that once received from me a short story and possibly a poem for a contest.
Today, the magazine sent out an email with the headline, “Stand Up to Book Banning”. The political slogan was attached to winners’ photos in the magazine’s high school writing contests, 2015-2023, which came with prize monies. First, we recognize a slant when people say book banning, words that are a veneer for sexual content. Second, we know what is meant by “underserved communities.” As one winner said, “I am a descendant of Aztec kings.” “Just curious, young man, did you do an ancestry search, or are you boasting?” Not one white boy is among those pictured. All kinds of people write good stories, but ethnicity, which is immaterial, is now a barrier. This degradation in the mainstream publishing world is widespread, very uncatholic, which is described by powerthesaurus.org, as, “of or associated with a province; limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent; not wide; not open or affording passage or access.” Just look up book agents and find out. The only thing material you will find in my English category are classic short stories and poems, what I have assigned to students. Solution: look at the copyright page to determine who the book publisher is and what the company has published and do not buy. I do not recommend this magazine. I unsubscribed. Headline: New IRS whistleblower letter suggests DOJ [Department of Justice] interference in Hunter Biden probe dates back years. “The allegation appeared in a May 18 letter the agent sent to IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel, and it was made public Monday evening as part of a whistleblower package his supervisor sent Congress and the Office of Special Counsel, the government’s official whistleblower protection agency. Just The News Gary Shapley, IRS supervisory special agent
 photo May 23, 2023 It is now a felony to commit violence against a K9 police officer in Florida. Most police dogs are male, as they are stronger and more aggressive. However, more and more females are coming into service.
Margret Delandre and Geoffrey Brent at Brent's Rock
 Surely, Bram Stoker would have lost a sibling to the green lake if they had
lived at Kylemore Abbey, Connemara, Galway. Accident, or ghoulish deed?  Surely, fine art students would keel over at the sight of all this pink, but Persian rugs would soften a fall in Nasir-Ol-Molk Mosque, also known as the Pink Mosque, Shiraz, Iran.
A girl asked a guy in our mutual set of friends if he would lie for me. Without hesitation, Josh said he would. I would have said the same thing. I would lie for him. Would you do that for a friend? A fourteen-year-old said in a separate conversation, same place, he would never lie. That generated many comments about ways around lying. What is interesting is that I would never lie for a son.
I’m a Roman Catholic, a designation that needs no further clarification. Accepting and believing all that is in the Catechism, including attendance at Sunday Mass, does not make me a “traditionalist Catholic”.  The Reading Room – Royal Portuguese Cabinet of Reading – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
official drink of the USA
The word bourbon comes from the House of Bourbon, a French dynasty. Its connection to the American South is a nod to the region’s long-standing connection with France. Through the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, the USA acquired land from the French First Republic. In return for $15 million, or approximately $18 per square mile, the United States got 828,000 square miles. It was carved up into states, the entire states of what would become Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and Oklahoma, and parts of Colorado, Louisiana, Minnesota, Montana, New Mexico, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming. First Bourbon: Henry IV, 1589-1610 Last Bourbon: Louis Phillipe I, 1830-1848 I did a quick survey of Quora contributors regarding the credibility of the History Channel.
The History Channel is owned by A&E Networks, which is an American multinational broadcasting company and a 50–50 joint venture between Hearst Communications and The Walt Disney Company through its General Entertainment Content division. The consensus is that the History Channel is not credible. Tanner Check, Quora, lists some of the shows: Pawn Stars; Ancient Aliens; American Pickers; Counting Cars; Swamp People; Ice Road Truckers; American Restoration; Knife or Death; Top Shot; Ax Men; Appalachian Outlaws; Cajun Pawn Stars; Pawnography. Moneymakers. |
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