Aries (♈) (meaning “ram”) is the first astrological sign in the zodiac, spanning the first 30 degrees of celestial longitude. Under the tropical zodiac, the Sun transits this sign from approximately March 20 to April 21 each year. This time duration is exactly the first month of the Solar HijriContinue Reading
Dame Jane Morris Goodall DBE (born Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall, 3 April 1934), formerly Baroness Jane van Lawick-Goodall, is an English primatologist and anthropologist. Considered to be the world’s foremost expert on chimpanzees, Goodall is best known for her over 55-year study of social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees sinceContinue Reading
What can you find in MARCH INTO LITERACY MONTH? A lexagram (or lexigram) is a form of wordplay where the letters in a name or phrase are shuffled to create new words. These new words make short statements that, ideally, describe the original term. For example, the word ASTRONOMICAL hasContinue Reading
Sixteenth President, Abraham Lincoln BORN IN A CABIN IN HARDIN TO THOMAS LINCOLN, A CARPENTER.Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809 in a log cabin in Hardin County, Kentucky. His father’s name was Thomas Lincoln, a carpenter. RAISED BAPTIST; RESIDE IN INDIANA, ILLINOIS.Lincoln’s parents belonged to faction of the BaptistContinue Reading
Groundhog Day is a popular tradition celebrated in the United States and Canada on February 2. It derives from the Pennsylvania Dutch superstition that if a groundhog emerging from its burrow on this day sees a shadow due to clear weather, it will retreat to its den and winter willContinue Reading
Florence Nightingale (12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910) was an English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing. Nightingale came to prominence while serving as a manager and trainer of nurses during the Crimean War, in which she organised care for wounded soldiers. She gave nursing aContinue Reading
LOEB “LEVI” STRAUSS contains… BLUE OVERALL RIVETS ARE BEST TO RESIST TEARS In the 1800s, Jacob Davis, a tailor from Nevada, regularly purchased bolts of denim fabric from Levi Strauss & Company’s wholesale house. After one of Davis’ customers kept purchasing extra cloth to reinforce torn pants, he had anContinue Reading
Colin Rand Kaepernick (born November 3, 1987) is an American activist and former American football quarterback in the National Football League (NFL). He last played for the San Francisco 49ers in 2016. The letters in a name or phrase can form many other words. Several descriptive lexagrams can be madeContinue Reading
The other day I was talking with a friend who abhors good puns – thankfully he is loaded with bad ones. He said that he was playing with words in the shower…. well, not showering with words but contemplating about – no, come to think on it, he said heContinue Reading
I was looking through some old notebooks that got unearthed during Spring Cleaning and happened upon a lexigram sketch I’d done about ten years ago. Back then, we were playing with the phrase DREAMLAND/AREA FIFTY-ONE at a Lexagram Party. This term, of course, refers to the mecca of alien conspiracy truth-seekers,Continue Reading