![]() 47 Section that doesn’t include the sax, surprisingly : BRASS Apparently the term “b-boy” comes from either “Bronx boy” or “break boy”. 41 Certain hip-hop dancer : B-BOYĪ b-boy is a male devotee of rap-music and breakdancing. They won as the Boston Braves in 1914, the Milwaukee Braves in 1957 and the Atlanta Braves in 1995. The Atlanta Braves are the only team to have won baseball’s World Series in three different home cities. Still later, author George Orwell used the term “prole” to describe a member of the working class in his novel “Nineteen Eighty-Four”. Centuries later, Karl Marx popularized the term “proletariat” to describe the working class. As a result, the class of people without property were referred to as the “proletarii”. Citizens with little or no property instead listed their “proles”, which is the Latin word for “offspring, children”. ![]() 33 “1984” working class : PROLESīack in the days of the Roman Republic, citizens with some material wealth were required to list in the census the property that they owned. Cultured pearls are made by inserting a tissue graft from a donor oyster, around which the nacre is laid down. Similarly, it uses nacre to encapsulate harmful debris or a parasite that penetrates the shell, and that’s how a pearl is formed. The creature lays down nacre as a defensive mechanism, protecting the soft tissue of its body from the rough surface of the outer shell. Nacre, also known as mother-of-pearl, is the strong iridescent material laid down by some mollusks on the inside of their shells, and it’s also what makes up pearls. Over time, the responsibilities of the office narrowed and changed until by the 17th century, the main task was to determine the cause of death in cases not obviously natural. The term “coroner” is derived from the Latin “custos placitorum coronae”, which was once the title of the officer responsible for protecting the property of the royal family (“corona” is Latin for “crown”). The novel tells the story of the Joad family from Oklahoma, farmers who had to leave their home and head for California due to economic hardship. John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath” is set during the Great Depression. One family descended from the Vermont von Trapps lives in the same town in which I used to live in California. The von Trapp family ended up in Stowe, Vermont after the war. The musical is based on “The Story of the Trapp Family Singers”, a memoir by Maria von Trapp. “The Sound of Music” is a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical that was made into a celebrated movie in 1965 starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer. 22 “The Sound of Music” matriarch : MARIA Further treatment of the skin with chemicals that permanently alter the protein structure of the skin is known as tanning, and the resulting product is leather. When the flesh, fat and hair is removed from the skin and it is dried, the resulting product is rawhide. He also banned “sati”, the practice whereby a widow immolated herself on the funeral pyre of her husband. Akbar made significant social reforms that improved the lives of women, legalizing the remarriage of widows and raising the legal age of marriage. Akbar’s reign was a successful one for the empire, as he consolidated the Mughal influence in the whole of the Indian subcontinent. 19 Locale of the Tomb of Akbar the Great : AGRAĪkbar the Great was Mughal Emperor from 1556 until his death in 1605. Good examples would be “The Big Sleep” and “D.O.A”. Film noir often applies to a movie with a melodramatic plot and a private eye or detective at its center. The term, meaning “black film” in French, was first used by Nino Frank in 1946. The expression “film noir” has French origins, but only in that it was coined by a French critic in describing a style of Hollywood film. Today’s Wiki-est Amazonian Googlies Across
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