February 2018 - A to Z posting contest

Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2018 2:30 am (No subject)

Q - Quiver is the container in which an archer keeps his arrows.

Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2018 3:35 am (No subject)

R Romania is a sovereign state located in Southeastern Europe. It borders the Black Sea, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Hungary, Serbia, and Moldova. It has an area of 238,397 square kilometres (92,046 sq mi) and a temperate-continental climate. With almost 20 million inhabitants, the country is the seventh most populous member state of the European Union. Its capital and largest city, Bucharest, is the sixth-largest city in the EU, with 1,883,425 inhabitants as of 2011

Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2018 12:53 pm (No subject)

S -Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the most distant that can be seen with the naked eye. Saturn is the second largest planet and is best known for its fabulous ring system

Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2018 2:26 pm (No subject)

T TARTAN is a pattern consisting of criss-crossed horizontal and vertical bands in multiple colours. Tartans originated in woven wool, but now they are made in many other materials. Tartan is particularly associated with Scotland. Scottish kilts almost always have tartan patterns.

Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2018 4:04 pm (No subject)

U...UNICORNS ARE MENTIONED NINE TIMES IN THE KING JAMES BIBLE,
COMPLETED IN 1611. HOWEVER THIS IS THOUGHT TO BE A CASE OF MISTRANSLATION!

Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2018 4:53 pm (No subject)

V VENUS is the Roman goddess whose functions encompassed love, beauty, desire, sex, fertility, prosperity and victory. In Roman mythology, she was the mother of the Roman people through her son, Aeneas, who survived the fall of Troy and fled to Italy. Julius Caesar claimed her as his ancestor. Venus was central to many religious festivals, and was revered in Roman religion under numerous cult titles.

Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2018 5:24 pm (No subject)

W - Wednesday is the name of the only daughter of Morticia and Gomez Addams in "The Addams Family".

Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2018 3:53 pm (No subject)

X xanthene a white crystalline heterocyclic compound C13H10O; also : an isomer of this that is the parent of the colored forms of the xanthene dyes

Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2018 6:56 pm (No subject)

Y - Cheap yo-yos can spin approximately 10-20 seconds, with a record of nearly 4 minutes, while professional ball bearing yo-yos can spin for 1-4 minutes, with a record of just over 21 minutes.

Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2018 12:26 pm (No subject)

Z ZOO, based on the #1 bestselling novel by James Patterson, is a global thriller about a wave of violent animal attacks against humans sweeping the planet.

Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2018 4:55 pm (No subject)

A - Acorn is the fruit of the oak tree. It is a nut, and contains a single seed (rarely two seeds), enclosed in a tough, leathery shell. Acorns take between 6 to 24 months to mature depending on the species.

Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2018 6:18 pm (No subject)

B The earliest known forms of BOWLING date back to ancient Egypt.[6] Remnants of balls used at the time were found among artifacts in ancient Egypt going back to 3200 BC [7] Balls were made using the husks of grains, covered in material such as leather, and bound with string. Other balls made of porcelain have also been found, indicating that these were rolled along the ground rather than thrown due to their size and weight.[7] Some of these resemble the modern day jack used in target bowl games. Bowling games of different forms are also noted by Herodotus as an invention of the Lydians in Asia Minor.[8]

Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2018 2:35 am (No subject)

D - Doppelgänger - Deprived from the German language, literally meaning "Ghostly Double". One who nearly or completely resembles another- but with no biological relation. Believed to be an omen of death if one was ever to see their Doppelgänger.

Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2018 3:58 am (No subject)

E EVERY day 200 million couples make love, 400,000 babies are born, and 140,000 people die.

Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2018 2:33 pm (No subject)

G - Gold is the only metal that is yellow or "golden". Other metals may develop a yellowish color, but only after they have oxidized or reacted with other chemicals.