Japanese for green is midori. If you want to say “green, green grass of home” in Japanese it would be “jitaku no midori no midori no kusa”.
Category: Omnibit
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Daisy Greville Daisy Bell — Daisy in the 1892 hit “Daisy Bell” was Daisy Greville, Countess of Warwick. The Countess will be forever part of history as her song was the first demonstration of speech synthesis when sung by an IBM 704 at Bell Labs in New Jersey in 1961.
Here is the history-making IBM version:
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 3-7-17 Daisy Greville Daisy Bell
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 3-6-17
Four kos make a yojan. Say what? Kos and yojan are units of distance that were used in India for about 3,000 years. A kos is equal to about two and a quarter miles.
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Arrests are never made in more than a third of U.S. homicides.
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The first “third party” in the United States was the Anti-Masonic Party. It won the governorships of Pennsylvania and Vermont, and took Vermont in the 1832 presidential election. It fizzled four years later. Its leaders backed William Henry Harrison and he just wouldn’t deny being a Freemason.
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Johann Pachelbel’s Canon and Gigue for 3 violins and basso continuo mostly fell off the orchestral playlist after his death in 1706. Almost 300 years later, though, French conductor Jean-François Paillard put it on vinyl and and had a hit.
And now it is a standard.
A canon, by the way, is compositional technique that repeats a variation of a melody. A gigue is a dance. It’s from whence the word “jig” comes.
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 3-2-17 French conductor Jean-François Paillard
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Time to celebrate. The first week of March is National Ghostwriters Week.
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William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 2-28-17
Public toilets in ancient Rome were dangerous. Flames would occasionally burst from the hole due the methane gas trapped. Not fun to be sitting there when such a thing happened.
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William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 2-27-17
OK Anthony, what do ’60s iconic hits “Snoopy and the Red Baron”, and “Abraham, Martin and John” have in common? They were both written by Dick Holler.
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“Man of Steel” can be translated as “stalin” in Russian. Ponder that next time you watch a Superman movie.
For what it’s worth the Soviet dictator took that name for himself. His original surname was dze Jughashvili.