Firstly, that the weather can be breezy with wind blowing in off Lake Michigan. It seems that the derivation of Chicago’s nickname “Windy City” isn’t as obvious as I would have thought. The IATA airport code for O’Hare International in Chicago is ORD, which comes from Orchard Place Airport/Douglas Field (OR-D). The sunflower is the state symbol, and Mount Sunflower is the highest point in Kansas. One of Kansas’s major crops is the sunflower, and so the state’s official nickname is the Sunflower State. In turn, the university teams’ name comes from the prevalence of corn as a crop, and the harvesting process known as “cornhusking”, removal of the outer husk from the ear of corn. The state of Nebraska got its “Cornhusker State” nickname from the University of Nebraska athletic teams (and not the other way round). Perhaps that’s why the state’s nickname is “The Pine Tree State” … Maine is the least-densely populated state east of the Mississippi, with almost 90% of its land covered with forests. 27 Pine Tree-Cornhusker-Sunflower : MAINEBRASKANSAS (MAINE-NEBRASKA-KANSAS) Universal Serial Bus (USB) is an industry standard dealing with how computers and electronic devices connect and communicate, and dealing with electrical power through those connections. Alabama is also called the “Heart of Dixie”. Iowa is nicknamed the Hawkeye State in honor of Chief Black Hawk, a leader of the Sauk people during the War of 1812 and the Black Hawk War.Īlabama is known as the Yellowhammer State, in honor of the state bird. In turn, the buckeye tree gets its name from the appearance of its fruit, a dark nut with a light patch, thought to resemble a “buck’s eye”. Ohio is sometimes referred to as the Buckeye State, taking the name from the state tree. 20 Buckeye-Hawkeye-Yellowhammer : OHIOWALABAMA (OHIO-IOWA-ALABAMA) “Antipasto” translates as “before the meal”. 16 Antipasto bit : OLIVEĪntipasto (plural “antipasti”) is the first course of a meal in Italy. Gateway was purchased by the Korean computer manufacturer Acer in 2007, and Acer discontinued the Gateway brand in 2011. The company developed quite a bit of brand recognition by shipping products in spotted boxes that were patterned after the markings on a Holstein cow. Gateway competed mainly with Dell, manufacturing and selling computers to order, directly to users. Gateway was a computer manufacturer that was founded in Sioux City, Iowa in 1985. 15 Corporation that acquired the Gateway computer hardware company in 2007 : ACER
As a result, Arachne was turned into a spider by Athena.
Arachne boasted that her weaving was greater than that of the goddess Athena (or Minerva in Roman myth), and this was proven true in a contest. In Greek and Roman mythology, Arachne was a mortal woman who was a great weaver. We will be on to Cape Evans tomorrow.more of Shackleton's adventure awaits.Today’s Wiki-est Amazonian Googlies Acrossġ4 Device for Arachne, in Greek myth : LOOM Mount Erebus is part of the Pacific Ring of Fire, which includes over 160 active volcanoes.įor more information Mt. With a summit elevation of 3,794 metres (12,448 ft), it is located on Ross Island, which is also home to three inactive volcanoes, notably Mount Terror. Mount Erebus in Antarctica is the southernmost historically active volcano on Earth.
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