![]() ![]() The word “yen”, meaning “urge”, has been around in English since the very early 1900s. “Lade” also used to mean “draw water” and indeed gave us our word “ladle”. The verb “to lade” meaning “to load” comes from an Old English word “hladan”. Qatar is scheduled to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup, although the nation’s eligibility to do so is under question after a far-reaching bribery scandal was uncovered at the sport’s governing body. In 2010, Qatar had the fastest growing economy in the world, driven by the petrochemical industry. Qatar has more oil and gas reserves per capita of population than any other country in the world. Qatar lies on the Persian Gulf and shares one land border, with Saudi Arabia to the south. ![]() Qatar is a sovereign state in the Middle East occupying the Qatar Peninsula, itself located in the Arabian Peninsula. Grumpy (that would be me, according to my wife …).The names were added for the 1937 classic Disney film “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”. In the original Brothers Grimm fairy tale called “Snow White”, the seven dwarfs were not given any names. …My salad days, / When I was green in judgment, cold in blood… 10 *Workplace for the Seven Dwarfs : MINE The expression “salad days” originated in William Shakespeare’s “Antony and Cleopatra” as Cleopatra refers to her youthful indiscretions saying: One’s salad days are the days of one’s youth, days of carefree exuberance and idealism. Today’s Wiki-est Amazonian Googlies Across ![]()
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