The term “buoy” still provides the most difficult pronunciation challenge to me, as a native Irishman living in the US. 32 Channel marker : BUOYĪ buoy is a floating device with many, many uses. “Gelid” derives from the Latin “gelum” meaning “frost, intense cold”. “Gelid” is such a lovely word, one with the meaning “icy cold”. As an aside, Janis Joplin’s recording of “Me and Bobby McGee” achieved the same feat in 1971. The song became the first posthumous single to reach number in the US charts. “The Dock of the Bay” was released in January of 1968, just one month after Redding was killed in a plane crash. Redding finished the song soon after, with the help of co-writer Steve Cooper. “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay” is a song that Otis Redding started composing in 1967 while sitting on a houseboat in Sausalito, on San Francisco Bay. Historically, it is where the city’s fishing fleet was moored and so the neighborhood became associated with the fishing community that mainly comprised Italian immigrants. 20 Medic with an office at Fisherman’s Wharf? : THE DOC OF THE BAY (from “The Dock of the Bay”)įisherman’s Wharf is the name given to what is now a tourist mecca at the northern limits of San Francisco, sitting right on San Francisco Bay. Lagos is also the most populous city in the whole of Africa (followed by Cairo in Egypt). It used to be the country’s capital, until it was replaced in that role in 1991 by Abuja, a city built just for this purpose. Lagos is a port and the biggest city in Nigeria. The threads held under tension are the warp threads, and the “woven” threads are the “weft” threads. There are many types of loom used to weave cloth, but they all hold parallel threads in tension in one direction, while allowing the interweaving of threads in the perpendicular direction. 10 Cards : WITSĪ very amusing person might be referred to as a card, stitch, wag or riot. The top cymbal is raised and lowered by the foot, hence creating a crashing sound. In a drum kit, a hi-hat is a pairing of cymbals that sits on a stand and is played by using a foot pedal. The unsuspecting men’s reactions make for a very powerful video, one that won a Peabody Award. The two sportscasters knew the content of the tweets, but the men didn’t. The video featured ordinary men reading the real, degrading tweets to Spain and DiCaro while sitting in front of them. The intent of the four-minute video is to highlight the outrageous sexual harrassment and threats that female sportscasters endure online. In 2016, Spain joined sports radio host Julie DiCaro to appear in a video called “More Than Mean”. Sarah Spain is a sports reporter who joined ESPN in 2010. Today’s Wiki-est Amazonian Googlies Across
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