Did you know that the country’s highest mountain, Mount Olympus (2,919m) was said to be the home of the Gods in ancient Greek religion?
14# AUTOSCHEDIASM
Citations for autoschediasm
It is of course possible that Eur. indulges in autoschediasm … and freely inventsthe monument, but more likely he conveys a contemporary tradition which, forwhatever reason, Aristodemus could not verify in his day …
As a specimen of Greek trickery this does not strike us as very inspired; only animbecile would have been taken in by it. I suspect that it is an autoschediasm ofPherecydes’, and that the pad was suggested to him by that metope of the templeof Zeus at Olympia …
#21 PHILIPPINES
Did you know that the islands were dubbed “the Philippines” after King Philip II of Spain?
And did you know that depending on the method of classification, there are 125 to 170 languages in use in the Philippines, such as Tagalog, Cebuano, Ilocano, Hiligaynon, Bicolano, Waray, and Kapampangan?
13# RODOMONTADE
Citations for rodomontade
“The sloop I have the honour to command is always ready to put to sea,” saidClonfert. That was mere rodomontade : no ship was always ready to put to seaunless she never used up any water, stores, powder or shot …
She knows what she’s about; but he, poor fool, deludes himself with the notion that she’ll make him a good wife, and because she has amused him with some rodomontade about despising rank and wealth in matters of love and marriage,he flatters himself that she’s devotedly attached to him…
12# RABBLE-ROUSER
Citations for rabble-rouser
She used every emotional trick of the rabble-rouser to whip them up intofrenzies, made them drunk on emotion, created a scene of back-pounding,shouting, jittering maniacs.
He is not the rabble rouser but the persuader, the man who gives the reasons.
#20 THAILAND
Did you know that “Thai” means free? It is appropriate, because Thailand is the only country in Southeast Asia never to have been colonized by a foreign power.
And did you know that It is the world’s most visited city, according to the Global Destinations Cities Index, ahead of London?. It will welcome 16 million international arrivals this year.
Varsity Girls Volleyball Team
The Varsity Girls Volleyball Team enjoyed a great weekend, playing extremely well, even achieving a second place in the LLSL tournament. Well done Lady Panthers!!
LIFE ADVICE FROM 50 BELOVED CHARACTERS :-)
#19 NORWAY
Did you know that Longbearbyen in Norway is also both the brightest and darkest place on the planet?
Here’s a look at one of its brighter day:
And did you know that Norway allows any student from anywhere in the world to study at their universities for free? (This allowance has no limits, either: undergraduate, Masters and Ph.D.s included.)
11# BISSEXTUS
This odd day was inserted after the sixth day before the kalends of March, i.e.,after the 24th of February, and was not counted as an addition to the year, but asa sort of appendix. Hence the sixth of the kalends of March was called bissextus, or double sixth, which root is still retained in our word bissextile, though the day isnow added at the end of February.
The Romans looked upon the Bissextile, or leap day, as unfortunate, and in theMiddle Ages this superstition was extended to the whole year. The French are stillin the habit of saying, when any misfortune happens, that the bissextus has fallenupon the business.