Jimmy Durante recorded a song called "The Guy Who Found the Lost Chord," which recounts an old English legend about, in the words of Mike Pinder, "an organist who, while practicing one day, hit a particular chord which elevated his consciousness and he experienced what might be called nirvana or a glimpse of heaven -- perhaps a trance of sorts. However, as with all forms of stimulants, it was short lived and he moved one hand and could not find that special chord again.

The popular story is that during World War II, a military general visited one of the many airship stations operated by the U.S. Navy. Trying to find out what material an airship was made from, he tapped his finger against the fully pressurized envelope of a non-rigid Navy airship. The general described the sound he heard, "blimp," and blimps have been called blimps ever since.

The acronym "DIN" stands for Deutsche Institut fuer Normung, The German standardisation institute. This is the body that takes care of standards for ski gear, such as the thickness of boot soles, binding setting numbers, and much more.

It is named for the Stanislaus River whose headwaters rise within Forest boundaries. The Spanish explorer Gabriel Moraga named the river "Our Lady of Guadulupe" during an 1806 expedition. Later, the river was renamed in honor of Estanislao, an Indian leader.

Tahoe is a modernized version of a Washoe word meaning "big water". The forest derives it's name from Lake Tahoe, which was part of the Tahoe Forest Reserve when it was created.

Answer: From the French "serge de Nimes," a twill fabric made in Nimes, France from blue vegetable dyes from the indigo plant, which is why deeper hues of blue denim are called "indigo."

When I (Mac Bledsoe) was in the Army there was an amazing lady who worked for me in the office that I was assigned to manage. I'll call her Patricia to keep her identity private, but Patricia kept me sane while I was in the insanity of the Army and the Viet Nam war. She also taught me a ton while I was there. (She remains a friend today and she is still teaching me.

Labor laws establish how many hours a worker can work, in a given period, before the employer is required to pay overtime. For firefighters this amount is set at 53 hours a week. This does not mean that a firefighter gets overtime pay the instant he or she works over 53 hours in a week. For a 24/48 schedule this would amount to 19 hours of OT every third week because on two weeks the firefighter would work 48 hours but on the third it would be 72.

The use of the term was inspired by a brilliant comedic sketch written and performed by the members of Monty Python's Flying Circus. I won't attempt to explain the reference; suffice to say that if you have ever seen the spam sketch, the use of the term becomes immediately apparent.

The word Jedi comes from a fictional source, first used in the movie Star Wars: A New Hope. In the Star Wars universe, the Jedi exist as guardians, promoting peace, order, and justice whenever it is needed. They are, though, seen by us as romantic, not realistic.

UL stands for Underwriters Laboratories, which is an independent, not-for-profit organization that tests consumer and industrial products for safety and performance.

The emerging universe is identified with new disabling conditions; new causes for impairments; differential distribution within the population; increased frequency of some impairments, including those associated with aging; and new consequences of disability, particularly related to social-environmental factors, life-span issues, and projected demands for services and supports.

Hippocrates, an ancient Greek physician known as the "father of medicine," named the condition on the basis of the Greek word for CROOKED.

Lou Montulli, currently the protocols manager in Netscape's client product division, wrote the cookies specification for Navigator 1.0, the first browser to use the technology. Montulli says there's nothing particularly amusing about the origin of the name: 'A cookie is a well-known computer science term that is used when describing an opaque piece of data held by an intermediary. The term fits the usage precisely; it's just not a well-known term outside of computer science circles.'"

Hemingway took "For Whom The Bell Tolls" from "Meditation 17" of John Donne's (1572-1631) work Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions. The tolling of the bell refers to the act of ringing a bell (the death knell) at a funeral to indicate that someone has died. Hemingway is drawing a parallel between the death of one person and the consequent affect on everyone, and the loss of Spain to the fascists in the Spanish Civil War.

PM Saturday, May 2nd, 1863 Jackson was wounded at the battle of Chancellorsville. He was shot through the left upper arm just beneath the shoulder. The humerus was fractured--the rachial artery was injured. He bled profusely. A second bullet entered the lateral left upper forearm and exited diagonally from the medial lower third of the forearm. A third bullet struck his right hand fracturing the second and third metacarpal bones and lodged beneath the skin on the back of his hand.

Most of the time the weight stays off. Unlike many other diets where the weight lost is mostly water weight, most of the weight lost during the Lemon Detox Diet comes from the loss of mucus, diseased cells and fat tissue. This is where toxins are stored in our system and it is from here where real weight is lost. One of the great benefits of the Lemon Detox Diet is that people usually kick their “bad food” habits and cravings.

This term is frequently misunderstood given that it is also used to describe radioactive materials and ionized radiation. In the context of Low Intensity Laser Therapy, "radiation" simply means the transmission of energy. LILT does produce radiation, but as photon energy in the visible red and near infra-red regions of the electromagnetic spectrum.

Hellenismos was the Greek term used by the Roman Emperor Julian—one of the first figures to attempt to revive the religion after the advent of Christianity—to refer to the traditional religion of the Greeks and all those who embraced their religious culture. It is in this religious, inclusive sense that we reclaim and use the word today. (The word also has other unrelated meanings in modern Greek.)

MAmmals FIrst. The dietary practice is called "mafism" - lower case M - and one who practices it is a "mafist." (Not a mafioso.) The terms are lower case M because mafism, like vegetarianism, is not a religion. Mafism is not about a set of laws that you must follow, with things you are or are not allowed to do. It is about finding a middle road, between a traditional Western diet and vegetarianism, that is comfortable for you.

Back in the old days they believed that if you got drunk from alcohol you were taken over by a bad spirit. Hence the meaning of the word "Spirit."

There are a lot of popular theories, one of which involves a Monty Python episode. Here’s a site with details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_(Monty_Python)

The term "Cherished Number" was originally coined to describe a registration having a sentimental value to its owner and which he/she wanted to keep in the family.

Obviously this refers to the size or diameter of the bore. Basically, the term came about from many years ago when there were very few ways of accurate measurement, as we know it today. Or perhaps more importantly, no standard that could be used by any Gunmaker, the length and breadth of the country, and each is the same measurement. So the way in which 12 bore was designated was by taking 1 lb of lead, dividing it into equal portions, dictated by the bore size required, eg.

The word Wuksachi comes from the name Waksachi, who were a division of the Western Mono Tribe (a.k.a. Monache) who lived at the Limekiln and Eshom Creeks and the North Fork of the Kaweah River.

Though it's not certain, the commonly held belief is that the word comes from the name of Sequoyah (born approx. 1760 - died approx. 1843), a former blacksmith and silversmith, who created the Cherokee alphabet around 1809 and was hailed a genius.

Many people wonder why our most famous oolong is called "Monkey-Picked". The name refers to the time when the most highly prized oolong teas were harvested from wild tea bushes found in the steep rocky mountain areas of China's Fujian province. Stories describe dedicated tea aficionados with trained monkeys that could climb up to the highest-growing, most inaccessible plants and retrieve their precious leaves.

The word phosphene comes from the greek words "phos", light, and "phainen" which means "to appear", and also "to shine". The word "phene" was created in 1834 in the vocabulary of chemistry, to name the nucleus of benzene. The same root is used to name its derivatives, "phenol" being the most important one. It was called this way because it also shines. In 1838, the same root was used again.

The name "adidas" dates back to 1948 and comes from the name of the company's founder, Adolf Dassler. By putting together his nickname "Adi" and the first letters of his surname, the name "adidas" was born.

Good question! Cyrano is the main character in the play Cyrano de Bergerac written by Edmond Rostand in 1895. Cyrano is a courageous soldier, poet, and swordsman. He is also disfigured by a remarkably large nose. He passionately loves a beautiful woman named Roxanne, but never tells her. She, in turn, falls in love with the handsome young Christian, a recruit in Cyrano's regiment, and she begs Cyrano to look after him.