According to wnpr.org, Connecticut has more actuaries than any other US state and is still “the insurance capitol of the world”.
“Capitol” and “capital” are often confused.
“Capitol” means the building which houses a government, and is derived from the Roman Capitoline Hill, where one of Rome’s earliest citadels was located, and thus became synonymous with the location of the government.
“Capital” has the more general meaning of the city where the government is located.
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A very good question! The origins of slang words are traditionally are harder to identify than more formal language.
Here’s one take on it, from the Urban Dictionary (however, the dating of workhouses to the 1500’s makes me question it at bit):
I’ll check my Oxford Canadian tomorrow at the office to see if it can cast any more light on the issue.
In Ancient Rome the mint was housed in the temple of Juno Moneta on the Capitoline Hill. It is from this title of Juno that the English word ‘money’ is derived.
The origin of the epithet ‘Moneta’ is unclear. It is thought to be derived from the Latin verb moneo, monere, monui, monitum meaning to ‘warn’, in reference to the incident in 390 BC when the cackling of the sacred geese in Juno’s temple warned the Roman commander Marcus Manlius Capitolinus of the approach of the invading Gauls.
The standard British monetary unit is the pound sterling.
The most plausible etymology is a derivation from the Old English word *steorra *for “star” with the addition of the diminutive suffix “-ling” to mean “little star” a reference to the Saxon silver penny.
Two hundred and forty of such pennies could be minted from a pound of silver which remained the number of pennies in a pound sterling until decimalization in 1971.
In 2004, Sports Car International named the Datsun 240Z number two on the list of Top Sports Cars of the 1970s.
There was a minor controversy during the 2004 U.S. Presidential debates when President George W. Bush was noticed to have an unexplained lump or bulge under his suit coat. The explanation for the lump remains unknown.
This past fall, Florida governor Rick Scott refused to come onstage for the first 7 minutes of a televised debate with former governor Chris Cristie used an electronic fan in his podium which Scott maintained violated rules against electronic devices. Scott was the butt of many jokes afterwards but defeated Cristie 48% to 47% in the gubernatorial election.
Doug Scott (born 29 May 1941) is an English mountaineer noted for the first ascent of the south-west face of Mount Everest on 24 September 1975.
Scott and his partner, Dougal Haston, were the first Britons to climb Everest during this expedition - discounting Mallory and Irvine’s assumed fatal failure back in 1924 - as Edmund Hilary was, of course, a New Zealander (and consequently the world’s most famous beekeeper).
Liza Minnelli was a very involved caregiver to her friend and frequent Studio 54 escort Halston during his illness with HIV; two years later she played a similar role with her former husband Peter Allen, who even lived with her for a time during his final days.
Sirius XM Radio has a Studio 54 channel devoted to Seventies disco music.
XM is the IATA designator for J-Air, a regional commuter subsidiary of Japan Airlines, that operates a fleet of 24 planes out of its Osaka hub.
The reigning Japanese emperor, Akihito, is the 125th emperor of his line according to Japan’s traditional order of succession. He succeeded to the throne in 1989.
Joshua Abraham Norton lived in 19th century San Francisco, where he died in 1880. He emigrated from South Africa in 1849 as part of the population boom during the California Gold Rush days. Norton reigned over the United States of America for the last 21 years of his life when, in 1859, he declared himself to be “Emperor of these United States” and then later added “and Protector of Mexico” to his self-proclaimed title. Thus is the life of Emperor Norton, and part of the wacky history of San Francisco.
Between 1970 and 1974 all of the Australian states and the Commonwealth lowered the voting age from 21 to 18.
Richard Milhous Nixon, 37th President of the United States, resigned from the presidency on 09 August 1974.
Battle of Adrianople was fought on 9 August 378 at which a Goth army decisively defeated the Roman forces under Emperor Valens, who was killed in battle.
It is a myth that the battle represented a turning point in military history, with heavy cavalry triumphing over Roman infantry and ushering in the age of cavalry dominating the battlefield.
In fact the Gothic cavalry arm was fairly small (Valens actually fielded more cavalry) and that while the role of the Gothic cavalry was critical to the exploitation of their victory, the battle was a mainly infantry versus infantry affair.
Singer Richard Steven Valenzuela, known professionally as Ritchie Valens, died in a small airplane crash on 03 February 1959. The date is known as “The Day The Music Died” because the crash also took the lives of Buddy Holly and JP (“The Big Bopper”) Richardson.
Valens and the others in the plane, including the pilot, Roger Peterson, died when the plane crashed less than six miles from takeoff near Clear Lake, Iowa. Presidential candidates often crisscross Iowa by small plane before the crucial party caucuses there, and among campaign veterans, a flight hit by very bad weather is called a “La Bamba.”
‘Dropping the Pilot’ is a famous cartoon drawn by the illustrator Sir John Tenniel for the magazine Punch, and depicts the resignation of Bismarck as Chancellor of the German Empire, engineered by Kaiser Wilhelm II.
Tenniel was also the artist who illustrated Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass.
Sister battleships Bismarck and Tirpitz were the largest battleships ever built by Germany, and two of the largest built by any European power. They were the only two battleships in the Bismarck class. Bismarck was named after Chancellor Otto von Bismarck and Tirpitz after Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz. The Bismarck was commissioned in August 1940, and the Tirpitz in February 1941. The Biamarck was scuttled (really, a technicality) in May 1941 after severe damage by torpedo bombers from the HMS Ark Royal and then by heavy bombardment from the British Navy. Most experts agree the Bismarck would have sunk from the damage anyway. The Tirpitz was sunk by RAF bombers on 12 November 1944 - two days after the US Marine Corps’ 169th birthday.