RB is also Roast Beef and Roland Barthes! -zas Jun 2022 Robert Burns (person) See all of Robert Burns, there is 1 more in this node. (person) by Gone Jackal (2.9 mon) Rep: 51 ( +52 / -1 ) (Rep Graph) (+) Mon Jan 15 2001 at 17:32:42 A short, oversimplified biography: Robert Burns was born on the 25th of January, 1759 in Alloway, a village in Ayrshire, Scotland, to a poor but educated farmer. Since the village was too poor to afford a school master, he was educated by his fath...
in previous capture linking to this page, it mentioned that so and so 'ruled over Salamis' which is funny to me because when I think Salami, i think charcuterie. I think this is just supposed to be an island or group of islands. -zas Jun 2022 Salamis (place) See all of Salamis, no other writeups in this node. (place) by Anacreon (13 y) Rep: 20 ( +22 / -2 ) (Rep Graph) (+) Thu Jun 15 2000 at 9:04:56 A small island near Athens which stood in the centre of a long dispute (and se...
Legitimation of governments by renaming of everyday things and places: a comparison of the Pahlavi and Islamic Republic in IranABSTRACTPolitical systems employ a variety of resources to acquire legitimacy and support from society. Any changes in the political system and sources of legitimacy can fundamentally alter the social world and the sign system, and even lay the foundations for identity conflict. Since the collapse of the Pahlavi dynasty and the establishment of the Islamic Republic go...
This was my ninth year doing the Challenge with this blog, and my eleventh year with two blogs. For the fifth year in a row, I had a fairly simple theme instead of a research-heavy one like I used to. However, this year’s theme was too important and timely for me to feel disappointed; on the contrary, doing anything other than Ukrainian names would’ve felt wrong. For the fourth year, I didn’t start writing and researching my posts on either blog till March. The posts on my main blog took u...
U is for unrulySourceURL: https://drkottaway.com/2022/04/25/u-is-for-unruly/ I am blogging from A to Z about Helen Burling Ottaway, my artist mother, and other women artists. Artists are unruly. They are not obedient. They are usurpers. They are unreasonable. This is another etching of my mother, a self portrait, titled "Giantess". She looks giant, rising from an ocean. Will she have arms and hands and legs, or is she an octopus? We do not know. It may depend on her mood. ...
Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Molech (thing) See all of Molech, there is 1 more in this node. (thing) by Demerick Fri Sep 22 2006 at 3:44:50 Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones.Leviticus 20:2 The Name The name Molech (sometimes spelled Moloch, Milcom...
Male names: Nazariy comes from Latin name Nazarius (from Nazareth). Nikandr is a rare form of Greek name Nikandros (victory of a man). Nychypir is a folk form of Greek name Nikephoros (carrying victory). Female names: Nadiya means "hope." Nataliya is the Ukrainian and Bulgarian form of Natalie (Christmas). One of the nicknames is Natalka. Neonila is the Ukrainian form of the rare Russian name Neonilla, which probably derives from Greek root neos (new).
Male names: Daniyil is a form of Daniel, which comes from Hebrew name Daniyyel (God is my judge). Danylo is another Ukrainian form of Daniel. Datsko is a folk form or diminutive of an unknown name. Davyd is the Ukrainian form of David, a Hebrew name meaning "belovèd." Demko is an older folk form or diminutive of Damian, which comes from Greek name Damianos and word damazo (to tame). Denys is the Ukrainian form of Dennis, which derives from Greek name Dionysos. Its roots are ...
The International Astronomical Union has established a committee to finalize a list of official star names. Some companies offer unofficial naming rights for purchase. But the voices of certain communities are often left behind. By accident of Earth's 23.5-degree tilt and the specific geography of our view of space, amateur astronomers and travelers who find themselves lost in the Northern hemisphere have long searched for Ursa Major, the great bear, whose torso is formed by the conspicuous...
A new chapter of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is beginning with the arrival of Moon Knight, a show (and indeed a superhero) unlike any other. The series is the first Marvel project to arrive on the small screen since the Jeremy Renner-starring Hawkeye bowed last December, and it certainly looks like it will be one to watch for MCU fans and newbies alike. Moon Knight is only the first of many new Phase 4 releases planned for 2022. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness will hit theate...
Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Logan's Run (thing) See all of Logan's Run, no other writeups in this node. (thing) by Dhericean Thu May 25 2000 at 12:01:29 First there came the book "Logan's Run" (1967) by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson. It was a very different story from the movie. In the book society was not restricted to domes and Logan was trying to find a mythical person (whose name I cannot remember) and Sanctuary where people over 21 do not...
The Book of Job is misunderstood: An alternative guide for times of war, pandemic, democracy erosion, and climate change. Skip to the content Ukraine KBJ Wikipedia Green Crypto Dua Lipa Deep Water Formula 1 D.C. Trucker Convoy ...
Hosea is listed as the first of the twelve minor prophets in the Hebrew Bible. He was active in the 8th century BCE and his ministry extended over 60 years, from King Jeroboam II (787-747 BCE) to King Hoseah (731-722 BCE). He was one of the first to write down his prophecies. Hosea ("salvation") may have derived from Joshua ("he saves"). Prophets Prophets were the Jewish version of oracles in the ancient world. It was a term for a person as well as a place. C...
Biblioklept Nameless, unimaginable, silent form or phantom | Riff 2 on rereading Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick (The Carpet-Bag/The Spouter-Inn/The Counterpane) Biblioklept 1 year ago I. Much has been made of Ishmael’s first night with Queequeg, and I don’t aim to add to it in any estimable way. Ch. 4 of Moby-Dick—what I take to be a key chapter, although there are probably too many supposed keys to this great big book—Ch. 4 of Moby-Dick, "The Count...
Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Good King Henry (thing) See all of Good King Henry, no other writeups in this node. (thing) by hectorthebat Fri Aug 02 2002 at 7:14:36 This vegetable has many other names- mercury, lincolnshire spinach, poor man's asparagus and so on, and it has been grown as a vegetable in cottage gardens for hundreds of years. However, fashions change, and now this dual-purpose vegetable is a rarity. It's a perennial which reaches about 2 ft hig...
Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 LISA conference (thing) See all of LISA conference, no other writeups in this node. (thing) by eBishop Wed Jun 18 2003 at 21:51:26 The LISA conference is the primary System Administration conference held annually by Usenix (the Unix Professional Socity) and its affiliate, SAGE (the System Administrators Guild). It has been held each year since 1987, and the location alternates between the Eastern and Western US. "LISA" stands for...
hawse (n.) From etymonline: "part of a ship's bow containing the hawse-holes," late 15c., from Old English or Old Norse hals "part of a ship's prow," literally "neck," from Proto-Germanic *h(w)alsaz, the general Germanic word (source also of Gothic, Danish, Swedish, Dutch, German hals), cognate with Latin collum (see collar (n.)), from PIE root from PIE root *kwel- (1) "revolve, move round; sojourn, dwell." Respelled with -aw- 16c.
Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Mars Blackmon (person) See all of Mars Blackmon, no other writeups in this node. (person) by Billy Sun Apr 20 2003 at 18:44:06 Spike Lee character from Lee's 1986 film She's Gotta Have It, but more known for a series of Nike commercials with Michael Jordan in the late '80s and early '90s. In the movie, Blackmon is one of the three men battling for the attention of Nola Darling. Blackmon is a bike messenger from Brooklyn who talks...
halieutic (adj.) "pertaining to fishing," 1854, from Latin halieuticus, from Greek halieutikos "pertaining to fishing," from halieuein "to fish," from hals "the sea," literally "salt" (from PIE root *sal-"salt"). Halieutics "writing on the art of fishing" is from 1640s (Latin Halieutica was the title of a poem on fishing by Ovid).
Skip to main content Advanced Search Rhetorics of Names and Naming Chapter Introduction: Toward a Rhetorical Onomastics BySTAR MEDZERIAN VANGURIBookRhetorics of Names and Naming Edition 1st EditionFirst Published 2016Imprint Routledge Pages 10eBook ISBN 9781315693347Share You do not have access to this content currently. Please click 'Get Access' button to see if you or your institution have access to this content. Get Access To purchase a print version of this book for per...
Skip to main content Advanced Search Rhetorics of Names and Naming Chapter Introduction: Toward a Rhetorical Onomastics BySTAR MEDZERIAN VANGURIBookRhetorics of Names and Naming Edition 1st EditionFirst Published 2016Imprint Routledge Pages 10eBook ISBN 9781315693347Share You do not have access to this content currently. Please click 'Get Access' button to see if you or your institution have access to this content. Get Access To purchase a print version of this book for per...
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See translation of Jeder Baum It means I’m German ‘every tree’. Interesting to me as a possible reference to or intertext with James Bond and the other jb inquiries of mine. -zas 6 Dec 2021