35 Italian wine region : ASTIĪsti is in the Piedmont region of northwestern Italy. In Spanish, a “fútbol” (football) supporter might shout “olé!” (bravo!). Barefooted sailors were required to stand to attention for inspection lined up along the seams for the wooden deck, hence “toeing the line”. The etymology of the phrase is disputed, although it is likely to come from the Royal Navy. The idiomatic expression “to toe the line” means “to obey”. Iacino then referred to Armstrong as the “couch potato”, the tuber lying on the couch. This lazy guy did have the energy to send out a newsletter called “The Tuber’s Voice”, with Armstrong being the “tuber”, the one watching the “tube”. Iacino had a friend named Bob Armstrong who eschewed an active life and liked to lie back on the couch watching TV, the “boob tube”. 28 “So then I dated a fun couch potato, but he …” : … DIDN’T WORK OUTĪpparently, the phrase “couch potato” was coined in 1976 by one Tom Iacino of Pasadena.
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Olin’s most famous performance was in “Chocolat” released in 2000, and then she won an Emmy in 2003 for Best Supporting Actress in the TV show “Alias”. Way back in 1974, Miss Olin was crowned Miss Scandinavia in a beauty pageant for Nordic women held in Helsinki, Finland. Olin’s breakthrough international and English-speaking role was playing opposite Daniel Day-Lewis in “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” released in 1988. Olin had a very successful career in Sweden, often working with the great Ingmar Bergman. Her mother was the actress Britta Holmberg and her father the actor and director Stig Olin. Lena Olin is a Swedish actress, and clearly someone who had acting in her blood. 27 Lena of “Enemies, a Love Story” : OLIN Ice giants have a lower mass than other gas giants, with very little hydrogen and helium in their atmospheres and a higher proportion of rock and ice. Uranus and Neptune can be called “ice giants”, a subcategory of gas giants. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are “gas giants”, as they are largely composed of gaseous material. Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars are “terrestrials” as they are largely composed of rock. The eight planets of our solar system can be sorted into two categories. 26 Main component of Saturn’s rings : ICE The term “coleslaw” is an Anglicized version of the Dutch term “koolsla”, which in itself is a shortened form of “Koolsalade” meaning “cabbage salad”. That first Tour de France took place in 1903, starting in Paris and passing through Lyon, Marseilles, Bordeaux, Nantes and then back to Paris. These races usually took place around tracks, but in 1902 the backers of the struggling sports publication “L’Auto” decided to stage a race that would take the competitors all around France. In French, “printemps: (spring) is followed by “été” (summer).īack in the late 1800s, long-distance cycle races were used as promotional events, traditionally to help boost sales of newspapers. The name “oboe” comes from the French “hautbois” which means “high wood”. The oboe is perhaps my favorite of the reed instruments. 17 Word from the French for “high wood” : OBOE
Introduced in 1985, Arlo and Janis are a baby booming couple with an easy approach to life, and who are very much in love. The comic strip “Arlo and Janis” is written by Jimmy Johnson. Today’s Wiki-est Amazonian Googlies Across
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