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Sunday, December 21, 2008

195. The staircase of Mount Meru...

Pascal's Triangle

194. How to Write a Book?

Henry David Thoreau.

193. God and co....

Emir Kusturica, renowned Serbian film-maker who made a 2008 on Maradona...

192. Pop goes the sequence...

Velocity and Acceleration. What follows are the popular terms for the higher order derivatives of distance wrt time!!

191. Baywatch?

The Big Sur (Kerouac et al)

190. Mind Your Language..

X = Percival Christopher Wren
Y = H Martin

Together they wrote the grammar bibles (High School English Grammar and Composition being one) which most Indian children encounter as a rite of passage!

189. On the road to Moreh....

Incredibly enough, the bulk of Moreh's population is constituted by Tamils

188. The feuilletoniste

S.J. Perelman.

Saturday, December 6, 2008

187. True Humility....

Curate's Egg : something that is partly good and partly bad, but as a result is entirely spoiled, something having a mix of good and bad qualities!

186. From Diu with Love.....

Dürer's Rhinoceros woodcut.


185. First Blood....

Blood Simple - Title of the Coen Brothers' first movie.

184. Of Friends and other jazz....

The "Pancha"-tantras!

183. Favouring the odds?

Gerrymander

Printed in 1812, this political cartoon illustrates the electoral districts drawn by the Massachusetts legislature to favor the incumbent Democratic-Republican party candidates of Governor Elbridge Gerry over the Federalists, from which the term is derived.

182. In defence of witch-craft!

Strega

181. The Set-Jet?

The trend of people visiting places/countries/locations which have been used as background settings for a movie. A la Bruges, Switzerland et al.

180. Work it out?

Assorted characters from Shakespeare's plays!

179. Here's looking at you, Brit...

The "white" cliffs of Dover.

Albion being the archaic name as to an approaching ship, Britain would appear all "white"!

178. Devil on Horseback?

The Janjaweed (which is not derived as some would like to, from ganja and weed!!)

177. Have a cigar.....

The irrepressible Pablo Picasso!

176. Fact or Fiction?

Winnemac, the fictional US state which is the setting for many of Sinclair Lewis's novels: Babbit, Arrowsmith et al.