63 Preserve, in a way, as beef : CORNĬorned beef is beef that has been cured with salt. 56 Shin armor that’s a homophone for a synonym of “mourn” : GREAVEĪ greave is a piece of armor that protects the leg. When the team moved to Des Moines in 2013, they became the Iowa Wild. The franchise name was taken from the World Hockey Association’s Houston Aeros of the seventies, the team for whom Gordie Howe played. The Houston Aeros were added to the International Hockey League in 1994. The Aeros were a professional ice hockey team based in Houston, Texas until 2013. The name already existed as a minced oath for “Jesus Christ”, and is even used in that context by the seven dwarfs in the earlier Disney cartoon feature “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”. When Walt Disney made his animated version of the story, 1940’s “Pinnochio”, the Talking Cricket was given the name “Jiminy Cricket”. In the 1883 children’s novel “The Adventures of Pinocchio” by Carlo Collodi, there is a character referred to as “the Talking Cricket”. That quarantine was so strict that in many cases the families were not even permitted to attend the funeral of a family member who died from the disease. The situation was dire and the authorities immediately quarantined the family of any polio victim. It killed thousands and left even more with disabilities, and most of the victims were children. In the fifties, especially after the 1952 epidemic, polio was the biggest health fear in the US. Jonas Salk was an American medical researcher who developed the first safe polio vaccine. Ariel is also friends with Sebastian, a red Jamaican crab whose full name is Horatio Thelonious Ignacious Crustaceous Sebastian. Her best friend is Flounder, who despite his name is not a flounder at all and is actually a tropical fish. Ariel’s father is chief merman King Triton. It tells the story of a mermaid princess named Ariel who falls in love with the human Prince Eric. “The Little Mermaid” is a 1989 animated feature from Disney that is based on the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale of the same name. The slang name “pot” comes from “potiguaya”. “Potiguaya” is the Mexican-Spanish word for “marijuana leaves”. 25 Pot for Sebastian of “The Little Mermaid”? : CRAB GRASS Squirrel, and Bullwinkle’s full name is Bullwinkle J. Rocky the Flying Squirrel is formally known as Rocket J. The title characters are a moose (Bullwinkle) and a squirrel (Rocky). “The Rocky & Bullwinkle Show” is a cartoon series that originally aired on television in the late fifties and early sixties. 23 Playlist for Bullwinkle? : MOOSE TRACKS His best friends are a pink-nosed rabbit named Thumper, a skunk named Flower, and another deer named Faline with whom Bambi eventually falls in love. In the 1942 animated feature “Bambi”, the title character is a white-tailed deer. All three of the ABC islands are part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The nickname comes from the first letters of the island names: Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao. “ABC Islands” is a name given to the three westernmost islands of the Leeward Antilles in the Caribbean. 21 One of the ABC islands : ARUBAĪruba is one of the so-called ABC islands located off the northern coast of Venezuela. In the center of the flag is a green cedar tree, a reference to the cedars of Lebanon that are mentioned several times in the Bible. Between each red stripe is a white background that represents peace as well as the snow on the Lebanese mountains. The Lebanese flag has two red stripes, one at the top and one at the bottom, designed to symbolize the blood that was shed in the cause of the country’s liberation. The odd man “steals” a lady with whom to dance, leaving her partner to find another. Couples dance to the tune, with an extra male in the middle of the group. “Skip to My Lou” is a children’s dance that can also be used at a barn dance as an icebreaker. Today’s Wiki-est Amazonian Googlies AcrossĦ “Skip to _”: 1840s partner-stealing dance : MY LOU
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