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Scoubidou (Gimp, Scoubi, Scoobie, Boondoggle, or Lanyard) is a plaiting and knotting craft, originally aimed at children, which originated in France, where it became a fad in the late 1950s. The name Scoubidou came from the late French singer Sacha Distel, who scored his first hit with the song of the same name in 1958. It came back into fashion in various countries, including the United Kingdom, in 2004 and 2005. It uses commercially supplied plastic strips or tubes.
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Caipirinha (pronounced [kaj.pi.'ɾĩ.jɐ]) is Brazil's national cocktail, made with cachaça (pronounced IPA: [ˌkaˈʃasɐ]), sugar and lime. Cachaça is Brazil's most common distilled alcoholic beverage. Like rum, it is made from sugarcane. Cachaça is made from sugarcane alcohol, obtained from the fermentation of sugarcane juice which is afterwards distilled. Caipiroska, a common variant of the drink, uses vodka in place of cachaça. A Caipirissima substitutes rum for the cachaça.
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Carangoides ruber, or the bar jack is an ocean-dwelling fish commonly found in the central Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean. It is a fairly popular sport fish and can be caught on light tackle. However, most recorded ciguatera cases on the island of St. Thomas can be traced to this single species.
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A water wheel is a means of extracting power from the flow (or fall) of water, that is hydropower. Water wheels were widely used in the Middle Ages to power industry in Europe. The alternatives were the windmill and human and animal power. The most common use of the water wheel was to mill flour in gristmills, but other uses included foundry work and machining, and pounding linen for use in paper.
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Easter, also called Pascha, is the most important religious feast in the Christian liturgical year. It is believed by the Christians to be the resurrection of Jesus, which Christians believe occurred on the third day after his crucifixion around AD 33. Easter also marks the end of Lent, a season of prayer and penance. Many non-religious cultural elements have become part of the holiday, and those aspects are often celebrated by many Christians and non-Christians.
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Lincoln Electric (NASDAQ: LECO) is a company in Cleveland, Ohio, United States that manufactures arc welding equipment. They are a worldwide leader in production of welding equipment and have subsidiary companies around the globe. It was founded in 1895 by John C. Lincoln with a capital investment of $200 to make electric motors he had designed. In 2007, Lincoln Electric Holdings is listed as 866 among the Fortune 1000.
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The Antikythera mechanism is an ancient mechanical calculator (also described as the first "mechanical computer") designed to calculate astronomical positions. It was discovered in the Antikythera wreck off the Greek island of Antikythera, between Kythera and Crete, in 1900. Subsequent investigation, particularly in 2006, dated it to about 150-100 BC, and hypothesised that it was on board a ship that sank en route from the Greek island of Rhodes to Rome, perhaps as part of an official loot. Technological artifacts of similar complexity did not appear until a thousand years later.
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