![]() ![]() It is the same species as the garden beet, but chard is grown for the leaves and beet is grown for the roots. 37 Vegetable with golden and Chioggia varieties : BEETĬhard is a lovely leafy vegetable, in my humble opinion. The term “shirred” comes from the name of the dish that was traditionally used for the baking. Shirred eggs are eggs that have been baked without their shells in a flat-bottomed dish. 31 Bit of hardware : T-NUTĪ T-nut is so called because it has a T-shape when viewed from the side. The album was a huge success, the highest-selling album of the 1990s, and the highest-selling debut album by any artist at any time (selling over 30 million units). Called “Jagged Little Pill”, it is a collection of songs with more of a rock influence. After releasing two pop albums in Canada, in 1995 she recorded her first album to be distributed internationally. Īlanis Morissette is a Canadian singer-songwriter. “Welp” is used in the same way that we use the interjection “well”. ![]() “Welp” is a slang term used at the beginning of a sentence to indicate disappointment. LSD is a supergroup, formed in 2018, comprising British rapper Labrinth, Australian singer Sia, and American music producer Diplo. 21 Australian member of the music supergroup LSD : SIA That image gave us our term “atlas” that is used for a book of maps. Mercator’s collection contained a frontispiece with an image of Atlas the Titan from Greek mythology holding up the world on his shoulders. The famous Flemish geographer Gerardus Mercator published his first collection of maps in 1578. The cover uses a photo of a very young Rihanna, one that was taken on her first day at daycare. “Anti” is a 2016 studio album released by Barbadian singer Rihanna. 18 Rihanna album with the hit single “Work” : ANTI The military usage derives from the concept of a besieging force “sitting down” outside a fortress until it falls. Our word “siege” comes from a 13th-century word for a “seat”. ![]() Tel Aviv was founded in 1909 as a housing development outside the port city of Jaffa. “Tel Aviv” translates into “Spring Mound”, and is a name that was chosen in 1910. The full name of Israel’s second largest city is Tel Aviv-Yafo. Internet service provider (ISP) 13 Hebrew for “spring” : AVIV “Bumpkin” was used as a derogatory term for Dutch people, who were regarded as short and plump. It comes from from the Middle Dutch “bommekijn” meaning “little barrel”. The term has an even less nice derivation. “Bumpkin” is really a not-so-nice term for someone from a rural area. The term derives from the masculine name “Reuben”, which was considered back in the early 1800s to be a typical name used in rural areas. Today’s Wiki-est Amazonian Googlies AcrossĪ rube is a person lacking sophistication, someone often described as a country bumpkin. ![]()
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