![]() The “Westie” looks very much like a related breed, the little black Scottish Terrier. The West Highland White Terrier is a cute-looking, little white dog from Scotland. These days TCBY stands for “The Country’s Best Yogurt”. The acronym TCBY originally stood for “This Can’t Be Yogurt”, but this had to be changed due to a lawsuit being pressed by a competitor called “I Can’t Believe It’s Yogurt”. TCBY is a chain of stores selling frozen yogurt that was founded in 1981 in Little Rock, Arkansas. Roosevelt and Mahatma Gandhi as runners-up. “Time” named Albert Einstein as Person of the Century in 1999, with Franklin D. Madame Chiang Kai-shek (1937), Queen Elizabeth II (1952) and Corazon Aquino (1986). ![]() Prior to 1999, the magazine did recognize four females as “Woman of the Year”: Wallis Simpson (1936), Soong May-ling a.k.a. “Time” magazine started naming a “Man of the Year” in 1927, only changing the concept to “Person of the Year” in 1999. Language does evolve, even though it drives me crazy … 29 “Person of the Year” magazine : TIME That said, dictionaries are now citing “octopi” as an acceptable plural. The plural “octopi” isn’t really correct as the inference is that “octopus” is like a second-declension Latin noun, which it isn’t. The most common plural used is “octopuses”, although the Greek plural form “octopodes” is also quite correct. The term “octopus” comes from the Greek for “eight-footed”. That said, the spotted hyena that lives in Sub-Saharan Africa actually kills about 95% of its food and a pack of spotted hyenas are capable of driving off leopards or lionesses before they can consume their kill. Hyenas have the reputation of being cowardly scavengers. 26 African animal that may be spotted or striped : HYENA He is usually depicted as having one eye, reflecting the story of how he gave one of his eyes in exchange for wisdom. In Norse mythology, Odin was the chief of the gods. Enoch’s mother was Awan, who was also Enoch’s aunt (Cain’s sister). 24 Nephew of Abel : ENOCHĪccording to the Bible’s Book of Genesis, Enoch was the son of Cain, and therefore the grandson of Adam and Eve. He was a somewhat groundbreaking character in that his alter ego was a teenage high school student (Peter Parker), which marked the first time that a young person featured front and center as the superhero. Spider-Man is a creation of Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, and first appeared in comics in 1962. The pair sold all rights to “The Superman” character to Detective Comics in 1938 for the princely sum of $130. By the time that Siegel and Shuster put together a comic strip called “The Superman”, the title character had evolved into a superhero. He was a vagrant who gained psychic powers and used them for nefarious purposes. That first “Superman” wasn’t a very glamorous character. ![]() Superman’s origins can be traced back to an illustrated short story titled “The Reign of the Superman” created by high school classmates Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster in 1933. 22 Like Superman, but not Spider-Man : CAPED The term “taximeter” evolved from “taxameter”, with “taxa” being Latin for “tax, charge”. ![]() A taximeter was an automated meter designed to record distance traveled and fare to be charged. We call cabs “taxis”, a word derived from “taximeter cabs” that were introduced in London in 1907. As a result, Arachne was turned into a spider by Athena. Arachne boasted that her weaving was greater than that of the goddess Athena (or Minerva in Roman myth), and this was proven true in a contest. In Greek and Roman mythology, Arachne was a mortal woman who was a great weaver. Today’s Wiki-est Amazonian Googlies Acrossġ9 Instrument for Arachne, in mythology : LOOM
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