A Scottish immigrant, head groundskeeper at Springfield Elementary School, Groundskeeper Willie, voiced by Dan Castellaneta, a character on The Simpsons, coined the phrase cheese-eating surrender monkeys.
The Ten Years' War, which began in 1868, was the first attempt by Cuba to secure its independence from Spain as sugar mill owner Carlos Manuel de Céspedes and his followers proclaimed Cuba's independence from Spain.
If you have chiroptophobia you have a fear of Bats.
The Pascha greeting is an Easter custom amongst Orthodox Christians where one is to greet another person with "Christ is Risen!", and the response is "Truly, He is Risen".
The island city of Nojpetén was the capital of the last surviving Maya kingdom when the Spanish stormed it in 1697.
Wellington is the capital city of New Zealand. Legends recount that Kupe discovered and explored the district in about the 10th century. European settlement began with the arrival of an advance party of the New Zealand Company on the ship Tory, on 20 September 1839, followed by 150 settlers on the Aurora on 22 January 1840. Wellington takes its name after Arthur Wellesley (1769-1852), the first Duke of Wellington and victor of the Battle of Waterloo (1815).
Imperial Bedrooms is the sequel to Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis an American novelist, screenwriter, and short story writer.
Antananarivo is the capital of the island republic of Madagascar.
Amanita nivalis, a species of basidomycote fungus, is found growing in sub-Arctic and Alpine conditions in Europe, Greenland and the Rocky Mountains.
The expression in the family way simply means a pregnancy.
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