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Jimmy Page Testifies as 'Stairway to Heaven' Spirit Trial Heats Up

Edit Rollingstone 16 Jun 2016
Spectators gathered outside Court 850 in Los Angeles' Edward R ... Sidebar. Led Zep Appear in Court for Colorful 'Stairway' Trial » ... Andes was the plaintiff's most sympathetic witness yet ... On the stand, Page was alternately candid, evasive, sarcastic and wittily charming in his Anglicisms ... On the stand, Page was alternately candid, evasive, sarcastic and wittily charming in his Anglicisms ... "I think Mr ... ....

FEATURE: Donald Trump’s ancestral home in Germany sees little reason to brag

Edit Taipei Times 14 Jun 2016
Kallstadt, a tidy village in Germany’s lush wine country, has plenty of things to take pride in if you ask its friendly citizens — but Donald Trump is not one of them ... Why should we be proud of that?” Mayor Thomas Jaworek, 48, asks ... Friedrich, who anglicized his name to Frederick, shipped gold nuggets back east to his sisters, who used the proceeds to buy property, laying the foundations of the family empire ... Great stuff,” he said. ....

Inside the underground economy that's propping up New York City's food carts

Edit Business Insider 14 Jun 2016
A food cart vendor cooks food in Times Square. When Sharif leaves his home in Flushing, Queens, it's too early to say goodbye to his wife and three kids. Long before sunrise, he drives 15 minutes to a cold, brightly lit garage in Long Island City that smells of spent fuel, cleaning fluid and food that's about to turn ... Q" ... Q." ... LIST PRICE ... He did, however, know a Dmitri (or "Jimmy," in its Anglicized form) who was involved with food carts ... ....

Rachelle Bergstein

Edit Medium 06 Jun 2016
In 1987, a decade before the term “bling” invaded popular vernacular, underground hip hop star Biz Markie came to upstart jeweler Jacob Arabo with an unusual request ... in other words, something fans could see from the stage ... After learning how to use the tools of the trade, Yakov Arabov anglicized his name to Jacob Arabo, left school, and found a job at a jewelry factory where he earned $125 a week (approximately $338 today) ... ... Kelly ... ....

The Founding Father of Bling

Edit Medium 06 Jun 2016
How Jacob Arabo Became Hip-Hop’s Diamond King. In 1987, a decade before the term “bling” invaded popular vernacular, underground hip hop star Biz Markie came to upstart jeweler Jacob Arabo with an unusual request ... After learning how to use the tools of the trade, Yakov Arabov anglicized his name to Jacob Arabo, left school, and found a job at a jewelry factory where he earned $125 a week (approximately $338 today) ... African American men....

Susan Haack on the use of terminology in academia

Edit The Examiner 05 Jun 2016
"c.1844 ... 1869 ... 1889 ... 1922 ... e.g., to use anglicized forms of scholastic philosophical terminology where appropriate; to invent technical term for philosophical conceptions that differ subtly from those for which suitable terms already exist; to introduce new systems of expressions when new conceptual connections are discovered; and to consider himself no less bound than others to use a symbol he has introduced in the sense he gave it." ... ....

Take it with a pinch of KISMOOR

Edit The Times of India 04 Jun 2016
What is the most favourite food of Goans? Undoubtedly, fish. So much so that to tide the fish-unfavourable monsoon season, Goans of yore came up with a perfect replacement - salted and preserved fish, known as kharem in local parlance ... Called 'kismoor', it is all at once salty, spicy, tangy and crunchy ... Now and Then ... It would be pertinent to note here that while Goans call it 'kismoor', the anglicized word for it would be salad ... Hint....

A history of names from the Scottish Highlands and Islands

Edit Scotsman 31 May 2016
Donald is a name of Gaelic origin that means ‘world ruler' and MacDonald is the anglicized form of the Gaelic Mac Dhomhnuill ... Scottish surname that became established on the small Hebridean island of Colonsay and is the anglicized form of Mac Duibshithe meaning ‘son of Dubshithe' ... MacIntyre is often anglicized to the surname wright....

Europe has a huge problem with American tech giants

Edit Yahoo Daily News 26 May 2016
This week, American tech giants Alphabet (GOOG), Amazon (AMZN) and Netflix (NFLX) have had their omnipotence seriously challenged — in Europe ... But regulators are pushing back. Here’s a breakdown of the hurdles Google, Amazon and Netflix face in Europe. Google ... Netflix ... Amazon ... The Royal Spanish Academy even launched a campaign this week that’s trying to stop advertising from adopting more and more Anglicisms....

Spain launches campaign to stop English 'invasion'

Edit The Local 24 May 2016
The Royal Spanish Academy is fighting against the anglicization of Spanish with a new campaign ... ....

'Britain's Schindler' Is Remembered By Those He Saved From The Nazis

Edit National Public Radio 19 May 2016
i. Czech Republic's President Milos Zeman (left) decorates Nicholas Winton with the Czech Republic's highest decoration, The Order of the White Lion, in Prague, on Oct. 28, 2014. Winton, a British citizen who died last year at age 106, saved 669 mostly Jewish children from the Nazis by transporting them out of Prague to Great Britain in 1939. Petr David Josek/AP hide caption. toggle caption Petr David Josek/AP ... They anglicized their names....

Treasures: Gold-etched wares unpopular in current market

Edit The Miami Herald 16 May 2016
Dear Helaine and Joe.. I have been trying for years to identify a dish I inherited from my mother. She always thought it was one of the more valuable pieces she owned ... Any help would be appreciated. Thank you,. T. S ... S.'s relish dish is "Osborne," which was the anglicized first name of Asbjorn T. Olsen, who at some point anglicized his first name to "Osborne." He was born in Illinois in 1884 and reportedly died in 1969 ... ....

Secularism is a fig leaf ;We’re more Pakistani than we think

Edit Kashmir Observer 16 May 2016
THE DECAY of the Congress has produced a predictable, observable effect. It has revealed our majoritarian instinct, exposing it to the world, from which it had been hidden.Our previous inauthentic assertions of secularism and tolerance are now gone. This change was of course the demand of the movement that brought Narendra Modi to power ... The average user of this social media is anglicized, urban, upper class and upper caste ... ....
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