Nitpick: As we’ve discussed before, there hasn’t actually been a Queen of England since 1707.
In play:
The twin-engine Boeing Chinook CH-47 helicopter was first introduced in 1962 and is still in use around the world.
Trying to drag the car out of the ditch here: The similar-sounding but unrelated Yiddish word *schnook *means, according to Wiki, “an easily imposed-upon or cheated person, a pitifully meek person, a particularly gullible person, a cute or mischievous person or child”. and perhaps is related to the Northern German *Schnucke *, “sheep”.
In the Beatitudes, the meek shall inherit the Earth.
Famously in ‘Monty Python’s Life of Brian’ the character playing Brian’s mother responded on hearing that beatitude at a distance, “Oh, it’s the Meek! That’s nice for them, 'cost they have a hell of a time”.
Queen of England is also often used informally to refer to the following:
The current queen of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth Realms, Elizabeth II
Any of the female British monarchs
Any wife of a British monarch
Any female in the line of succession to the British throne, or most wives of males in the line of succession, may be called "future queen of England" (From Wikipedia)
Queen’s front man, Freddie Mercury, was born Farrokh Bulsara, a Parsi. He was a British citizen, born in Tanzania. He had a four octave range.
Merkur’s five year existence was one of the shortest-lived automobile brand names in recent history. Merkur is the German name for Mercury, and both were made in the late '80s by Ford, which introduced Merkur when imports began to challenge their Lincoln in the USA light luxury car market.
Merkur made the XR4Ti and the Scorpio. My brother had a Scorpio and it was pretty nice. (For a 1980s car, that is.)
Albert Brooks provided the voice of supervillain Hank Scorpio on “The Simpsons” Season 8 episode “You Only Move Twice”. Scorpio was Homer’s new boss at Globex when the family relocated to the planned community of Cypress Creek. Homesick, they return to Springfield just as Scorpio’s Project Arcturus succeeds in establishing his control over the US East Coast.
Vladimir Nabokov author-ego of “Pale Fire” thought a line from the Arts pages was transposed into the Sports section, to create the misprinted headline “Yanks Top Boston, 4-3, On Chapman’s*** Homer”***.
When Aristotle Onassis considered buying the former home in Los Angeles of comic actor Buster Keaton, the LA Times could not resist captioning the story “Aristotle Contemplating the Home of Buster”.
When bus drivers settled their strike in a special weekend negotiating session, it is not really true that the NY Times ran the headline “Sick Transit’s Glorious Monday”.
The American newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst was famously loathed by his editorial staff. When he made a speech quoting Edward Bulwer Lytton in saying: ‘The pen is mightier than the sword’ they could not resist reporting it thus in a thin column headlined:
‘Hurst:
Pen is
Mightier
Than sword.’
The silversword plant, *Argyroxiphium *is a small genus of five species in the sunflower family, Asteraceae, found at high elevations on the islands of Hawai’i and Maui, meaning the slopes of Mauna Kea and Haleakala above 1500 meters.
The kea, well-known to crossword puzzlers and scrabble players, is the word’s only parrot of exclusively alpine habitat. A New Zealand native, it name is from Maori, and probably imitative.
The huia is an extinct New Zealand wattlebird. Its last confirmed sighting was on 28 December 1907.
The huia displayed the most pronounced sexual dimorphism in bill shape of any bird species.
There have been three major league baseball players named LeFebvre, and all three ***pronounced ***their names differently. Bill was /la-FEV/, Joe was /la-FAY/, and Jim was /la-FEE-ver/. They were not related.
In the Australian Army a major is a field rank officer who commands a sub-unit (company, squadron, battery) of up to 120 officers and soldiers.
The rank below major is captain. The rank above major is lieutenant colonel.
In the Nicaraguan Army, there is no equivalent to Corporal. The only ranks below a Sargeant (3 stripes) are Private First Class (one stripe) and Private, no stripes worn.
In Catholic liturgical practice the corporal is a small square of white linen, on which the chalice and paten are placed during Mass. Its name is derived from corpus, the Latin for ‘body’.