After President Roosevelt passed away in office, Congress passed legislation calling for a new design for the dime, one featuring the image of FDR. The Foundation’s most successful fundraising campaign was to encourage the public to just send a dime to support the charity, so that even before the Foundation officially changed its name, the public were already calling it March of Dimes. President Roosevelt was a major driver in the founding of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. The facility is named for the celebrated abolitionist and activist Harriet Tubman. The Tubman Museum in Macon, Georgia was founded in 1981 to showcase African-American art, history and culture. Non-disclosure agreement (NDA) 26 Georgia home of the Tubman Museum : MACON And so, “Rome” was born, perhaps instead of “Reme”! 20 Pitchfork-wielding crowd : ANGRY MOBĪ “pitchfork” is so called because it is primarily a “fork” for lifting and “pitching” hay. The pair had a heated argument about who should be allowed to name the city and Romulus hit Remus with a shovel, killing him. 18 Italy’s capital : ROMEĪccording to tradition, Rome was founded by the twin brothers Romulus and Remus. People from Madrid called themselves Madrileños. Madrid is the second-largest city in the European Union by population, after Berlin. It is located very close to the geographical center of the country. Madrid is the most populous city in Spain, and is the nation’s capital. Eros was referred to in Latin as both “Amor” (meaning “love”) and “Cupid” (meaning “desire”). The name of Eros, the Greek god of love, gives rise to our word “erotic” meaning “arousing sexual desire”. She also went “undercover” and worked as a temp in an office for three weeks fine-tuning her skills. She worked hard to perfect that accent, and of course she had a voice coach. My wife and I love watching her play Bridget Jones, and as someone coming from Britain and Ireland, I have to say that Zellweger does a remarkable job with the accent. A few years later, Zellweger followed that up with a string of successes in “Bridget Jones’ Diary” (2001), “Chicago” (2002) and “Cold Mountain” (2003). Renée Zellweger’s big break came with the 1996 movie “Jerry Maguire”. Sara Lee herself who now goes by the name Sara Lee Schupf. The business was bought out by Consolidated Foods in 1956, but the brand name Sara Lee persists to this day, as does Ms. The cheesecake was a hit and he renamed the bakeries to Kitchen of Sara Lee. Lubin introduced a cream cheesecake that he named after his daughter who was only 8-years-old at the time, Sara Lee Lubin. In 1935, businessman Charles Lubin bought a chain of three bakeries in Chicago called Community Bake Shops, and soon expanded the operation into seven stores. This sense of encouraging something bad to happen morphed into our modern usage of “abet” meaning to aid or encourage someone in a crime. The word “abet” comes into English from the Old French “abeter” meaning “to bait” or “to harass with dogs” (literally “to make bite”). Today’s Wiki-est Amazonian Googlies Across
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