

We now use the term “ninja” figuratively, to describe anyone highly-skilled in a specific field. As they were a secretive cadre they took on a mystical reputation with the public, who believed they had the ability to become invisible or perhaps walk on water. The ninjas were covert operatives, specializing in the use of stealth to accomplish their missions. The ninjas were around in Japan at the time of the samurai, but were a very different type of warrior. 43 Snapchat marketing expert, in modern lingo : SOCIAL MEDIA NINJA (hiding “MEDIAN”) The term is probably a derivative of the expression “the naked truth”, which is evocative of “skinny-dipping”.

The use of the word “skinny”, meaning “information”, comes from WWII military slang for “the truth”. “L’Chaim!” is a Hebrew toast meaning “To life!”, with “chai” being the Hebrew word for “life”. “Shish” comes from the Turkish word for “skewer”. In the West, we usually use “kebab” when talking about shish kebab, which is meat (often lamb) served on a skewer. The term “kebab” (also “kabob”) covers a wide variety of meat dishes that originated in Persia. It is a commonly held belief that heather and erica are the same thing botanically, but in fact, erica is another name for a different species called “heath”. The show is a creation of WGBH-TV in Boston. “Frontline” is a much-acclaimed PBS documentary program that has been airing since 1983. Not my cup of tea … 23 “Frontline” network : PBS It’s all about a mute young lady working in a government laboratory and falling in love with a humanoid amphibian who is held captive there. It was directed by Guillermo del Toro, who also co-wrote the script.

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“The Shape of Water” is a 2017 movie that is described as a “romantic monster” film, and so is in a pretty unique genre, I’d say. Del Toro won an Oscar for Best Director for the 2017 movie “The Shape of Water”. His best-known works are probably action movies like “Blade II” (2002) and “Hellboy” (2004). Guillermo del Toro is a film director from Guadalajara in Mexico who has had success directing and producing American films. I love the Big Island … 18 “The Shape of Water” director : GUILLERMO DEL TORO (hiding “MODE”) Hilo is the largest settlement on the big island of Hawaii, and has a population of over 43,000 (that’s not very many!). At the same time as he changed the laws, the king initiated the luau tradition by symbolically eating with the women who moved in his circle. These laws called for women and men to eat separately. The Hawaiian party or feast known as a “luau” really dates back to 1819, when King Kamehameha II removed religious laws that governed the eating of meals. The spleen produced the humor known as yellow bile, which was associated with an aggressive and energetic personality. The Greeks believed that a person’s temperament was dictated by the balance of the body’s four “humors”. This expression is rooted in the humoral medicine of the ancient Greeks. “To vent one’s spleen” means to vent one’s anger, perhaps by shouting and screaming. The Emma Lazarus poem that is inscribed on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty is in fact titled “The New Colossus”. New York’s Statue of Liberty was designed to have similar dimensions. This was a statue of the god Helios that stood over 100 feet tall, on the Greek island of Rhodes. 8 Larger-than-life creations : COLOSSIĪ colossus (plural “colossi”) is an exceptionally large statue, the most famous of which was the Colossus of Rhodes. John Fitzgerald Kennedy (JFK) was the son of Joe Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald, hence the president’s double-barreled name. Today’s Wiki-est Amazonian Googlies Across
