Funny. I just finished reading a book where a minor character was named Euryale.
And it’s weird to name a kid after a gorgon.
I don’t know if this has been mentioned before, but apparently Irving Berlin could only play piano in F sharp (using the black keys). At least in his early days.
When he got better off he had a transposing piano which would allow him to play using his usual patterns but move the key to what he wanted:
Some kids are just LOUD from the beginning.
Well, I just learned that baby ticks have six legs. Then, later, they grow another pair.
Well, the gorgon’s names are actually kinda generic. “Euryale” means “far roaming”, which fits a lot of kids.
“Medusa” means “guardian” or “protectress”. There are characters in Greek mythology who have “Medusa” as part of their names.
The third gorgon, Stheno, has a name that means “powerful”
By the way, I could recommend another book with a character named “Euryale” in it.
Please do!
There was a similar incident in Germany a couple of years earlier in which two people died. Both of these were world-record attempts with hundreds of participants.
If you have have dozens or hundreds of people hauling on both ends of a rope, you get a lot of strain energy built up in the rope, and if the rope breaks that energy has to go somewhere - and the result is heavy ropes snapping back at very high speed.
Basically the rope behaves exactly like an elastic band if you stretch it until it snaps, only on a much larger scale.
I think this kind of contest has been banned in many places because it’s extremely risky.
Is there some tug-o-war governing body that mandates natural fiber rope?
Link: Zumwalt-era navy training video on synthetic line danger
The Stephen King novel "The Eyes of the Dragon” has as a plot point the claim that the longer a rope is, the lower a strain on it will snap it. I’ve never been clear if this just means that when hanging a long rope one has to remember to take the weight of the rope itself into account, or if it means that the length of the rope itself, by some principle of leverage or mechanical advantage, makes it easier to break. I.E., if a certain amount of strain that would snap a 1000-foot rope would not do so on a 500-foot rope.
Manila tug of war rope is the only type allowed by the Tug of War International Federation (TWIF) , which organizes and establishes the rules for world championship games.
Okay— gorgons: you look at them, you turn to stone i.e. you die. Basilisks if I’m not mistaken have the gaze of death: they look at you, you die. Cockatrices: not sure?
The Inuit people of Greenland are not indigenous, not aboriginal. The Norse settled Greenland 300 years before the Inuit arrived there. The real aboriginal people of Greenland were two ancient groups known to archaeology as the Saqqaq culture and the Dorset culture. They were not related to the Inuit at all and they disappeared ages ago.
The Guardian newspaper refers to Greenland Inuit as “aboriginal” and indigenous,” labeling Greenland’s capital Nuuk as “the most indigenous city in the world,” but they’re flat wrong. They’re used to looking at Native North America through the Canadian lens. But Greenland is completely different from Canada. Ironically, the Inuit are the least indigenous people in Greenland, being the most recently arrived, if you count Denmark’s current rule as a continuation of the Norse colony.
It varies more from legend from legend than from species to species, and very few legends include more than one such creature.
For what it’s worth, in D&D, both medusas and basilisks work the same way, if you meet their gaze. Cockatrices petrify with a touch, not with their eyes at all, and gorgons are a bull-like creature that petrify with a cloud of gas they exhale.
Aldi is well known in the US, right? Globally it is actually two companies. When two brothers inherited the business it was divided into Aldi Nord (North) and Aldi Sud (South) - the two have been legally separate since 1966.
Outside of Germany (where the business originated) a country typically has either Nord or Sud stores, not both. So here in the UK we’re an Aldi Sud territory; and when I go vacationing in France, it’s Aldi Nord. Germany has both Nord and Sud, of course, and the only other territory to have both is… the US, where the vast majority are Sud, but Trader Joe are Nord (I assume this is an acquisition and ongoing rebrand?).
Free extra fact: Aldi comes from Albrecht Diskont [discount], Albrecht being the name of the family which started the company.
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Aldie is a small town in Northern Virginia, so every time I hear the name Aldi I think of that place out on route 50. I wonder if there’s an Aldi in Aldie?
It means ‘per day’ in Italian: take your medicine due volte al dì.
I live in the Kreis (district) Olpe, and our southern border is part of the Aldi Nord/Süd divide. That means that the bordering communities (Wenden and Drolshagen) have the advantage to choose from special weekly offers at both Aldi Nord and Süd, which are always different, just by driving a few kilometers to the next town.
You have this advantage too, don’t you? Just drive to Wenden or Drolshagen or stay put in Olpe. Out of curiosity: how often do you drive to Wenden or Drolshagen because of a special offer from Aldi? How often do you reckon the people of Wenden or Wolfhagen drive to Olpe for a special offer?
Wenden and Drolshagen are both in the South of the Kreis Olpe, whereas I’m in the Northern part, 30 km apart. So it doesn’t pay up to drive that distance to the Siegerland, which is our Southern neighbors, for grocery shopping. I don’t often buy at Aldi anyway.