Monday, September 27, 2010

The town of Boca in the Sierra Nevada named after the Spanish word for mouth

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The town of Boca was located in the Sierra Nevada at the junction of the Truckee River and Little Truckee River. The town's name refers...

An acronym in economics and geopolitics: MAVINS, a collective notation for six countries and future global players

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A mavin (also spelled maven ) is someone who is experienced or knowledgeable [1]. The plural mavins denotes two or more of those expert fr...
Sunday, September 26, 2010

Pizzo, an ancient word of Sicilian origin meaning protection money

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Pizzo is money that shop and business owners in Palermo and other places in Sicily pay for protection or “allowance to run their business.”...

Italian: fiaccolata; English: candlelight vigil

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The Italian word fiaccolata is derived from the Italian noun fiàccola ( femminile : feminine), meaning torch or flare. Fiaccolata means t...

A library is a library is a …

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A library is a place in which literary and artistic materials, such as books, periodicals, newspapers, pamphlets, prints, records, and tapes...
Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Acronym in materials science: TSF for thin solid film(s)

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In chemistry and material sciences a film is a layer that can be in a liquid, liquid-crystalline, or solid state. Solid films are class...
Sunday, September 19, 2010

Twitterversiality

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At Twitter people broadcast all kinds of subjects and have conversations about almost everything—snippetwise. Anything out there in the twi...