![]() Session (abbreviated to “sess.” formally, and “sesh” informally) 57 French breakfast item that sounds like a response to a gut punch : OEUF National Security Agency (NSA) 56 Short meeting? : SESH It was adapted into a very good movie released in 1993 starring Denzel Washington and Julia Roberts. “The Pelican Brief” is a 1992 novel by John Grisham, one of his signature legal-suspense thrillers. He served in the Mississippi House of Representatives for six years, during which time he wrote his first novel, “A Time to Kill”. After graduating from law school, Grisham practiced law for about ten years and then went into politics. John Grisham is a lawyer and an incredibly successful author best known for his legal thrillers. 48 John who wrote “The Pelican Brief” : GRISHAM She also portrays superheroine Valkyrie in movies based on Marvel Comics characters. Tessa Thompson is an actress from Los Angeles who is known for playing the supporting role of Jackie Cook on the TV show “Veronica Mars”, and for playing student leader Diane Nash in the 2014 film “Selma”. 42 Actress Thompson of “Sorry to Bother You” : TESSA One species of cassowary is the third tallest bird on the planet, second only to the ostrich and the emu. The cassowary is a large, flightless bird found mainly in New Guinea. Subsequent requests for military help for the farmers were ignored. After 50 days of “war”, the military withdrew. The emus were clever, breaking their usual formations and adopting guerrilla tactics, operating as smaller units. Soldiers were sent in and used machine guns in an unsuccessful attempt to drive off the “invading force”. There was even an “Emu War” in Western Australia in 1932 when migrating emus competed with livestock for water and food. ![]() The emu has had a tough time in Australia since man settled there. For each series the registration sticker was updated, so no laws were being broken. The plate was on a Jaguar XJ for most of the series, but moved onto a Bentley towards the end of the run. slot until, after a six-year run, it was itself replaced by yet another respected drama, “E.R.” The opening credits showed that famous California license plate. It took over from the equally successful “Hill Street Blues” in the Thursday night 10 p.m. Law” ran on NBC from 1986 to 1994, and was one of the network’s most successful drama series. Years later, Dey won a Golden Globe for playing the leading role of Grace Van Owen in “L.A. Law” : DEYĪctress Susan Dey first appeared on “The Partridge Family” when she was 17-years-old when she had no acting experience. The beer was originally intended for transportation from England to India, hence the name. India pale ale (IPA) is a style of beer that originated in England. 29 Projection from the fashionably late : ETAĮstimated time of arrival (ETA) 37 Some tap offerings, in brief : IPAS The name Golan Heights also applies to the geopolitical region that was captured from Syria during the Six-Day War of 1967 and occupied by Israel. Geographically speaking, the Golan Heights is a plateau in the Middle East with the western two-thirds of its area falling within Israel, and the eastern third falling within Syria. ![]() Larson is from Sacramento, and trained at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, where she was the youngest person ever admitted. I mainly recognize actress Brie Larson from playing the daughter of Toni Collete’’s character on the excellent TV show “United States of Tara”. 20 Larson who won Best Actress for 2015’s “Room” : BRIE ![]() In their own tongues, these would be “Gaeilge” (in Ireland), “Gaelg” (on the Isle of Man) and “Gaidhlig” (in Scotland). There are actually three Erse languages: Irish, Manx (spoken on the Isle of Man) and Scots Gaelic. The Greek word “halos” is the name given to the ring of light around the sun or moon, which gives us our word “halo” that is used for a radiant light depicted above the head of a saintly person. The “Avia” brand name for athletic shoes was chosen as “avia” is the Latin word for “to fly”, and suggests the concept of aviation. Having said that, there is an organization called the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) that was originally intended to operate across the country, but really it now focuses its efforts in New York City. Instead there are independent organizations set up all over the nation using the name SPCA. Unlike most developed countries, the US has no umbrella organization with the goal of preventing cruelty to animals. originally founded to protect carriage horses : SPCA I wonder if the kids of today know that “cc” stands for carbon copy, and do they have any idea what a carbon copy was? Do you remember how messy carbon paper was to handle? A kind blog reader pointed out to me a while back that the abbreviation has evolved and taken on the meaning “courtesy copy” in our modern world. Today’s Wiki-est Amazonian Googlies Across
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