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The term “diva” comes to us from Latin via Italian. Funnily enough, the three “musketeers” really don’t use their muskets, and are better known for prowess with their swords. A musketeer was an infantry soldier who was equipped with a musket. 18 Friend of Porthos and Aramis in “The Three Musketeers” : ATHOSĪlexandre Dumas’ “Three Musketeers” are Athos, Porthos and Aramis, although the hero of the novel is the trio’s young protégé D’Artagnan. Believe it or not, “Finding Nemo” is the best-selling DVD of all time and, until 2010’s “Toy Story 3”, it was the highest-grossing, G-rated movie at the box office. The film was the winner of the Oscar that year for Best Animated Feature. “Finding Nemo” is a 2003 animated blockbuster from Pixar. Asphalt is used as a binder with aggregate to form asphaltic concrete. The asphalt surface on roads (or basketball courts) is more properly called asphaltic concrete because asphalt itself (also known as “bitumen”) is just a sticky black liquid that comes from crude petroleum. That first novel’s title gives its name to “Game of Thrones”, the incredibly popular HBO television series that uses the storyline from the whole series of books. “A Game of Thrones” is the first novel in the series of fantasy novels by George R. The term arose in medieval times when European courtrooms were divided into two with “barring” furniture, basically a wooden rail that separated the public from the participants in the trial. The legal profession is referred to as “the bar”. She even starred in her own movie, “Grumpy Cat’s Worst Christmas Ever”, which was released in 2014. By 2020, Grumpy Cat was an Internet meme, with over 8 million likes on Facebook. The brother of her owner posted a picture of the cat on Reddit one day in 2012, and folks started using the photo in parodies. She had an underbite that caused her face to always appear “grumpy”. “Grumpy Cat” was the nickname of a well-known cat on the Internet named Tardar Sauce. The cab-driver, who at once saluted him with the hiss of a serpent, might be that very Phaethon who had set this happiness in motion twelve months ago.Today’s Wiki-est Amazonian Googlies Acrossġ Viral internet joke, like “Grumpy Cat” : MEME He had changed the ancient Greek myth to his own purpose and meaning: Phaethon, the young son of Helios, who stole his father's chariot and, in ambitious audacity, attempted to drive the sun across the sky, did not perish, as he perished in the myth.Īll were caught and held, like Phaethon, by some powerful magic that imposed a quiet if not always a peaceful slumber. He was forty-three years old and it was the opening night of Phaethon, an opera he had written at the age of twenty-four. She thought of Dr Herschbinder’s planet Phaethon, wrecked by smelly bombs. Half of Phaethon got blasted into asteroids, Major … uh, General, and the rest raced off towards Saturn. Thelma gazed up at Phaethon behind glass high at the top of the column. Up at those topmost windows, Phaethon would then transform the column into a genuine Pharos - one designed to lure lost navigators with its beacon and its bait, wrecking them below. There her tribe awaited her: butterfly-winged Icara, flaring Phaethon, the truly reborn Harry Fullerton, Hacker the garage owner and thirty-odd more, all waiting to be pitted against the first tribe. In a reverse of the usual yogic progress over beds of hot charcoal, Phaethon left charred footsteps where he trod.
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