The two cities were originally one settlement in the 17th century, established by Jesuit Missionaries. Marie is the name of two cities on either side of the Canada-US border, one in Ontario and the other in Michigan. Michelle Obama née Robinson, and Melania Trump née Knavs. The term “née” is mainly used in English when referring to a married woman’s birth name, assuming that she has adopted her husbands name, e.g. “Née” is the French word for “born” when referring to a female. They referred to the city as “Holy Toledo”. Old Vaudeville entertainers used to quip that any week in Toledo was Holy Week, that ticket sales were always bad there. Back then the week before Easter, known as Holy Week, was the worst week at the box office. My favorite story is that it comes from the days of Vaudeville. The origin of the term “Holy Toledo!” is much debated. There is a large exhibition of glass art at the Toledo Museum of Art. Toledo is known as the Glass City as several glass companies originated there, including Owens Corning and Pilkington North America. Toledo was founded as a result of the prosperity that hit the area when the Miami and Erie Canal was constructed in the 19th century connecting Cincinnati to the Great Lakes. Toledo, Ohio lies in the northwest of the state, at the western end of Lake Erie. The word ultimately derives from the Latin “venare” meaning “to hunt”. In days of yore, the term “venison” applied not just to deer, but to any large game. 20 Deer hunter’s dinner, perhaps : VENISON STEAK (hiding “VENI”) He then moved to Saudi Arabia, where he was financially supported by the Saudi Royal Family for the remainder of his life. Amin was ousted from power in 1979 after a war with Tanzania, and fled to Libya where he stayed for a year. There followed seven years of brutal rule by Amin during which it is estimated that between 100,000 and 500,000 people were murdered. By the early seventies, Amin was commander of all the armed forces of Uganda and in 1971 seized power in a military coup, displacing the country’s president Milton Obote.

He was a noted rugby player and swimmer, and for nine years held the Ugandan national light-heavyweight boxing title. During that time he was quite the athlete. On his return to Uganda Amin joined his country’s military and quickly rose to the rank of Deputy Commander of the Army. Idi Amin received most of his military training in the British armed forces, eventually achieving the highest rank possible for a Black African in the British Colonial Army in 1959, that of Warrant Officer. He was escorted to his chair, he saw Lola dancing thereĪnd when she finished, he called her overĪnd then the punches flew and chairs were smashed in twoīut just who shot who? 18 Wind that’s worth a warning : GALEĪ gale is a very strong wind, a wind that is defined by the Beaufort wind scale as a wind with speeds from 50 to just over 100 kilometers per hour. The club had to move due to impending construction and is now “sharing” a location with the Columbus 72 nightclub. The Copa opened in 1940 and is still going today, although it is struggling. The Copacabana of the 1978 Barry Manilow song is the Copacabana nightclub in New York City (which is also the subject of the Frank Sinatra song “Meet Me at the Copa”). “Je ne sais quoi” is French for “I don’t know what”. 13 Saintly glows : AURASĪn aura (plural “aurae”) is an intangible quality that surrounds a person or thing, a “je ne sais quoi”.

To avoid this, the euphemism “the Scottish Play” is used instead. There is a superstition in the theatrical world that uttering the name “Macbeth” in a theater will bring disaster of some sort. That should get him a slap, I’d say … 9 Macbeth, by birth : SCOT Interestingly, in 1824 Sir Walter Scott described the word “miffed” as “a women’s phrase”. “To miff” is a verb that has been around since the early 1600s. Today’s Wiki-est Amazonian Googlies Across

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