Aaron married Elisheba, daughter of Amminadab and sister of Nahshon of the tribe of Judah. The sons of Aaron were Eleazar, Ithamar, and Nadab and Abihu. A descendant of Aaron is an Aaronite, or Kohen, meaning Priest. Any non-Aaronic Levite—i.e., descended from Levi but not from Aaron—assisted the Levitical priests of the family of Aaron in the care of the tabernacle; later of the temple.
The Twelve Tribes of Israel (Jacob), found in Genesis 46:8-25, are Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun (and his only named daughter Dinah, from mother Leah), Gad and Asher (from mother Zilpah), Joseph and Benjamin (from mother Rachel), and Dan and Naphtali (from mother Bilhah).
The only animal in the world with a 4-term alliterative name is the San Simeon Slender Salamander, endemic to California, in south-western Monterey and northern San Luis Obispo Counties. The Walla Walla Waltzing Wallaby is fictional.
When Mission San Luis Obispo was founded in 1772, the area was full of bears. The Spanish soldiers of the mission pacified the local natives by shooting the difficult-to-kill bears with their guns and trading the meat.
“Willoughby Wallaby Woo”, a children’s poem and naming rhyme by Canadian writer Dennis Lee, was set to music by performer Raffi Cavoukian.
Other animals prominently featured in Raffi’s songs are belugas, horses and giraffes, and teddy bears.
I call Ninja!
Not in play: Un-ninja’d with the addition of the last line, but I forgot to include elephants, very important in “Willoughby Wallaby Woo,” as in
“Willoughby Wallaby Woe, an elephant sat on Joe, Willoughby Wallaby Wullitt, an elephant sat on Bullitt”
By the way I’ve eaten bear meat which is not especially pacifying when it comes to flavor–like a greasy gamy beef. I wonder how valuable it was in trading.
Carry on.
Good one. It is a little challenging, typing this with an elephant sitting on my shoulders.
Raffi’s songs include Baby Beluga and Joshua Giraffe. In February 2016, Raffi released the song Wave of Democracy in support of Senator Bernie Sanders’ run for the leadership of the Democratic Party and the Presidency.
Comment: Baby Beluga and Joshua Giraffe were two of our favorite songs. My son’s name is Joshua.
The Airbus A300-600ST (Super Transporter) or Beluga, is a version of the standard A300-600 wide-body airliner modified to carry aircraft parts and oversized cargo. Airbus developed them for their own use, to replace a fleet of Boeing “Super Guppies”, Stratocruisers that had been given similarly inflated fuselages, originally built for NASA to transport booster rockets.
The Transporter is a 2002 French action film. The film stars Jason Statham as Frank Martin, a driver for hire – a mercenary “transporter” who will deliver anything, anywhere – no questions asked – for the right price. It is the first film in a series also consisting of Transporter 2, Transporter 3 and The Transporter Refueled.
Earlier this year, Volkswagen released the sixth generation of their Transporter. Earlier generations of the Volkswagen Transporter were called the Kombi, Bus, Micro Bus, Vanagon, and Eurovan.
On October 3, 1829, after ten months in office, Louisiana’s sixth governor, Pierre Derbigny, was thrown from a horse-drawn carriage and died three days later, in Gretna, Louisiana.
Louisiana has more Native American tribes than any other southern state.
Native deodorant is paraben-free so as not to disrupt your hormonal balance.
“Balance of Terror” was the first Star Trek episode to feature the scheming Romulans, a Vulcan offshoot race with a vaguely Roman-inspired culture. Mark Lenard, who played the unnamed Romulan commander, would later play Ambassador Sarek, Cmdr. Spock’s father.
On January 20, 451 CE, General Flavius Aetius, with the help of Roman foederati, defeated Attila the Hun in the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains and halted the invasion of Gaul by the Huns and their allies. Aetius was an able military commander and the most influential man in the Western Roman Empire for two decades (433-454). Edward Gibbon refers to him as “the man universally celebrated as the terror of Barbarians and the support of the Republic.” Attila subsequently invaded Italy, devastating the northern provinces, but was unable to take Rome. He planned for further campaigns against the Romans but died in 453. The term “foederati” was used under the Roman Empire to refer to groups of “barbarian” mercenaries, who were typically allowed to settle within the Empire.
Attila is a common given name in Hungary; some counts place it in the top 20 men’s names. Several Hungarian Olympians have had this name including figure skater Attila Tóth and swimmer Attila Czene.
Although it is common practice in America to name girls after flowers, and Aster is a well-known flower, there are only four females with the given name Aster with Wikipedia bios. All four of them are Ethiopian/Eritrean.
Ethiopian cuisine characteristically consists of vegetables and often very spicy meat dishes. This is usually in the form of wat, a thick stew, served atop injera, a large sourdough flatbread. Coffee is also a large part of Ethiopian culture and cuisine. After meals, a coffee ceremony is enacted and espresso coffee is served.
On April 8, 1341, Italian poet and scholar Petrarch became poet laureate in a ceremony at Rome. Petrarch is often called the “Father of Humanis” and was the first to develop the concept of the "Dark Ages.”