Serendipity: Its Amusing Origin as an English WordTHE word was first used in the English language in the 18th century as Serendip. It was used to identify the name of a country believed to be what is now Sri Lanka.Manila Bulletin
furtherH. originssI. purposes J. rebelledK. reltivelyColumbus: Myth and RealityEveryone knows the name of Christopher Columbus, and, as with anyhistorical icon, there are as many myths as truths about the man. Take, forexample, the disagreement about his(1). The Spanish say he was (1)...
Adulthood, peak of what we did not yet know would be the first dot-com boom, living on the edge of an ocean my 24/7 job crisscrossing the country hardly afforded me time to see, I hopped a last-minute flight to join friends in Thailand, ferried to Koh-Phi-Phi, an island in the...
Hey, I have an origin I am not wild I am from a blood line of royals We walk as a herd We see ourselves without permission No barriers, walls, or departments, else something is likely dead And then we know a wolf is by the corner We go deaf to unknown voices, we hear only our ...
What I do find interestin is the origin of the universe, the shape of space-time and the nature of black holes. At 19, when I began studying astrophysics, it did not bother me in the least to be the only woma in the classroom. But while earning my Ph.D. at MIT and then as a...
Prosit means “good luck to you,” and comes from the Latin, by way of German, prōsit,“may it benefit.” You might tell a superstitious actor to break a leg (and if they’re in a certain play, definitely don’t utter the name of said play). The origin of break a leg is ...