2.Olam-- world (related to he'elem -- "obscurity"; ie, the Divine self-concealment)
www.sichosinenglish.org/books/likkutei-dibburim-5/28.htm
3.Fluor-- Fluor is any of a class of minerals first identified by Georg Agricola, which he described as resembling gems, but softer, readily fusible, and useful in smelting.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluor
4.Weehawken-- township in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census
5.“ I wish I was an octopus, a fucking octopus. “Eight loving arms and all those suckers. Know What I mean.”
Many desiring that you have everything in the palm of your hand.
6.Ailene-- Ailene is a English girl name. The meaning of the name is `Bird, Rival` Aileen,Ailene The name Ailene doesn`t appear In the US top 1000 most common names over de last 128 years. The name Ailene seems to be unique!
Found on
7.Grand Concourse Avenue-- multitude: a large gathering of people. wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
8.“ People who are lonely, people left alone, sit talking nonsense to the air… Beautiful systems dying old fixed orders spiraling apart..”
meaning Seeing that its time for new love and seeing new technology arrriving
9.“I’d like to go traveling. Leave you behind to worry. I’ll send postcards with strange stamps and tantalizing messages on the back. “Later maybe.” Nevermore…”
Meaning trying new things and moving on with your life.
10.Lesionnaire-- A pathological or traumatic discontinuity of tissue or loss of function of a part that a person has. www.nsc.org/ehc/glossar1.html
11.Azidothymidine-- (AZT) (also called ZDV) is an antiretroviral drug, the first approved for treatment of HIV.
Yiddish-- (ééÄãéù
12.Neo-Hegelian- a follower of Hegelian, which isThe monist, idealist philosophy of Hegel in which the dialectic of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis is used as an analytic tool in order to approach a higher unity or a new thesis.
13.Valium-- Diazepam (IPA: /da?'æz?pæm/
14.Greco-Roman-- period of history refers to the culture of the peoples who were incorporated into the Roman Republic and Roman Empire.
15.Zeitgeist--is originally a German expression that means "the spirit of the age", literally translated as time (Zeit), spirit (Geist)".
16.Kaposi's sarcoma-- known as (KS) is a tumor caused by Human herpesvirus(HHV8), also known as Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus(KSHV). It was originally described by Moritz Kaposi, a Hungarian dermatologist practicing at the University of Vienna in 1872. It became more widely known as one of the AIDS defining illnesses in the 1980s.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaposi's_sarcoma
17.Lymphadenopathy-- is a term meaning "disease of the lymph nodes." It is, however, almost synonymously used with "swollen/enlarged lymph nodes".
When the infection is of the lymph nodes themselves, it is called lymphadenitis, but when the infection is of the lymph channels, it is called lymphangitis . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lymphadenopathy
18.Roy Marcus Cohn-- (February 20 1927 - August 2, 1986) was an American lawyer who came to prominence during the investigations by Senator Joseph McCarthy into alleged Communists in the U.S. government, especially during the Army-McCarthy Hearings. He was also a key figure of prosecution in the trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. A highly controversial figure, he wielded tremendous political power at times. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Cohn
19."It is. Hell. The AFter Life.Which is not at all like a rainy afternoon in March, by the way, Prior. A lot more vivd than I'd expected. Dead leaves, but the crunchy kind. Sharp, dry air. The kind of long, luxurious dying feeling that breaks your heart."
Meaning about it's time for death to come upon us
20.Walter Winchell-- April 7,1897 - February 20, 1972 was an American newspaper and radio commentator. He invented the gossip column while at the New York Evening Graphic. He broke the journalistic taboo against exposing the private lives of public figures, permanently altering the shape of journalism and celebrity. He was a top gossip reporter, whose newspaper column and radio show could "make" or "break" a celebrity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Winchell
21.Jeane Jordan Kirkpatrick-- (November 19, 1926- December 7, 2006 was an American ambassador and an ardent anticommunist . After serving as Ronald Reagan's foreign policy adviser in his 1980 campaign and later in his Cabinet, the longtime Democrat-turned-Republican was nominated as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and became the first woman to hold this position.
She is famous for her "Kirkpatrick Doctrine," which advocated U.S. support of anticommunist governments around the world, including authoritarian dictatorships, if they were not totalitarian and went along with Washington's aims-believing they could be led into democracy by example. She wrote, "Traditional authoritarian governments are less repressive than revolutionary autocracies."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeane_Kirkpatrick
22.Monolith-- is a geological feature such as a mountain , consisting of a single massive stone or rock, or a single piece of rock placed as, or within, a monument. Erosion usually exposes the geological formations, which are most often made of very hard and solid metamorphic or sedimentary rock.
The word derives from the Latin word monolithus from the Greek word μονόλιϑος (monolithos), derived from μόνος ("one" or "single") and λίϑος ("stone").
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monolith
23.Hermorrhoids-- The term hemorrhoids refers to a condition in which the veins around the anus or lower rectum are swollen and inflamed. It may result from straining to move stool. Other contributing factors include pregnancy, aging, chronic constipation or diarrhea, and anal intercourse. It is either inside the anus-internal-or under the skin around the anus-external. http://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddiseases/pubs/hemorrhoids/#what
24.Louis Farrakhan-- (born Louis Eugene Walcott, May 11, 1933, is the Supreme Minister of the Nation of Islam (NOI) as the National Representative of Elijah Muhammad. He is also well-known as an advocate for African American interests and a critic of American society. Farrakhan has been the center of much controversy, and critics claim that some of his views and comments have been racist, homophobic, and antisemitic. Farrakhan has categorically rejected these charges,and has stated that much of America's perception of him has been shaped by media sound bites. However, there is plenty of evidence of videos of him announcing that he is the real Jesus Christ, and that the Jesus of the Bible being only a "type and shadow" of the "real Jesus", namely, himself, Louis Farrakahn.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Farrakhan
25.Judas Iscariot-- (died April AD 29–33, Hebrew: יהודה איש־קריות Yəhûḏāh ʾΚ-qəriyyôṯ) was, according to the New Testament, one of the twelve original apostles of Jesus. Among the twelve, he was apparently designated to keep account of the "money bag" (Grk. γλωσσόκομον),[1] but he is most traditionally known for his role in Jesus' betrayal into the hands of Roman authorities.His name is also associated with a Gnostic gospel, the Gospel of Judas, that exists in an early fourth century Coptic text. Judas has been a figure of great interest to esoteric groups, such as many Gnostic sects, and has also been the subject of many philosophical writings.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=judas+iscariot
26.Kosciuszko Bridge-- a truss bridge that spans Newtown Creek between the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, connecting Greenpoint, Brooklyn and Penny Bridge, Queens. It is a part of Interstate 278, which is also locally known as the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. The bridge opened in 1939, replacing the Penny Bridge from Meeker Avenue in Brooklyn to Review Avenue and Laurel Hill Boulevard, and is the only bridge over Newtown Creek that is not a drawbridge. It was named in honor of Tadeusz Kosciuszko, a Polish volunteer who was a General in the American Revolutionary War. Two of the bridge towers are surmounted with eagles, one is the Polish eagle , and the other the American eagle.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosciuszko_Bridge_(New_York_City)
27.Julius Rosenbergand Ethel Greenglass Rosenberg-- were American citizens who received international attention when they were executed after having been found guilty of conspiracy to commit espionage in relation to passing information on the American atomic bomb to the Soviet Union. The guilt of the Rosenbergs and the appropriateness of their sentence have been subject of perennial debate; however, information released after the Cold War has been taken as confirming a charge against Julius about espionage, but not in relation to atomic bombs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethel_Rosenberg
28.zaftig-- : plump, chubby, full-figured, as a woman (from Yiddish zaftik 'juicy'; cf. German saftig 'juicy') (OED, MW
29.Gnome-- a mythical creature characterized by its extremely small size and subterranean lifestyle. The word gnome is derived from the New Latin gnomus. It is often claimed to descend from the Greek gnosis, "knowledge", but more likely comes from genomos "earth-dweller", in which case the omission of e is, as the OED calls it, a blunder. Another possibility is that it comes from the Arabic which means sleep. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnome
30.Sodomy-- (IPA: /'s?d?mi/ ) is a term used today predominantly in law(derived from traditional Christian usage) to describe an act of "unnatural" sexual intercourse normally interpreted as referring to anal intercourse, as well as bestiality. When used in a religious context, it has a negative connotation.
31.Bayeux Tapestry-- (French: Tapisserie de Bayeux) is a 50 cm by 70 m (20 in by 230 ft) long embroidered cloth which explains the events leading up to the 1066 Norman invasion of England as well as the events of the invasion itself. The Tapestry is annotated in Latin. It is presently exhibited in a special museum in Bayeux, Normandy, France. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_language
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