Thursday, October 22, 2009

Lawton

Celeste
Señal

Eagle


Hbr 13:23

"Know ye that our brother Timothy is set at liberty; with whom, if he come shortly, I will see you."Gianina Segnini
Chess: "Lawton" "Leitón" "Leighton" "Celeste" "Signal" "Señal" "Eagle" "beacon" "Alfred North Whitehead"



Alfred North Whitehead, OM (February 15, 1861December 30, 1947) was an English mathematician who became a philosopher. He wrote on algebra, logic, foundations of mathematics, philosophy of science, physics, metaphysics, and education. He co-authored the epochal Principia Mathematica with Bertrand Russell.

'God save thee, ancient Mariner! From the fiends that plague thee thus! Why look'st thou so?' With my cross-bow I shot the Albatross.

-Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', pt.1.


Albatross (noun) (birdie: sambenito: taxis(la fuerza roja) ?)

Pronunciation: ['æl-bê-trahs]
Definition: Any one of fourteen species of very large seabirds, family Diomedeidae; metaphorically, a guilty burden.

Usage: The albatross is so heavy that it cannot take off without a headwind. So during prolonged periods of calm the birds are less often seen, and the notion therefore arose that they somehow caused the wind. For sailors, then, it was bad luck to kill an albatross, as Samuel Taylor Coleridge recorded in verse: "Ah wretch! said they, the bird to slay, that made the breeze to blow!" As a punishment for killing the albatross, Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner was forced to wear its corpse slung around his neck—from which we derive the word’s metaphorical meaning: a guilty burden.

Suggested Usage: The word lends itself to punning: "So I borrowed the car without telling Dad. It started out as a lark, but now it has become an albatross." (Do you mean the incident or the car?)

Etymology: We get the bird's name from a Latin pun on "alcatraz," the Spanish word for "pelican," which may derive from a reference to the buckets of an Arab water-raising device called "al-qadus." (The prison island of Alcatraz was named for its colony of pelicans.) English sailors then gave the name "alcatras" to frigate birds, which also sport a pouch below their beaks. And since frigate birds are, in the main, dark in color, some forgotten wag of a naturalist decided that the large, very white, bird behind his ship was not an alcatras but an alba-tras, since "alba" is the Latin word for white.
Etymology: altered, prob. infl. by albus, white <>alcatraz, lit., pelican <>al qādūs, water-wheel basket, scoop <>kados, cask, jar; prob. <>kad, water jug

–Dr. Language, YourDictionary.com


Presentará reclamo a Departamento de Estado

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Ronny Rojas | ronnyrojas@nacion.com

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