2011年9月27日 星期二

brewski, spread, baobab, ruling class



Facebook Launches Own PAC


The move is the social media giant's latest bid to spread its influence from Silicon Valley to Washington.






Practical Traveler

B & Bs Seek to Be a Guy Thing

By MICHELLE HIGGINS
Bed-and-breakfasts are starting to man up, doing away with the lace bedspreads and trading high tea for brewskies.


The loss of a baobab

The Nobel peace prize winner took on Kenya's ruling class


Adansonia
African Baobab (Adansonia digitata) tree in BagamoyoTanzania near the Kaole ruins
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Plantae
(unranked):Angiosperms
(unranked):Eudicots
(unranked):Rosids
Order:Malvales
Family:Malvaceae
Subfamily:Bombacoideae
Genus:Adansonia
L.[1]
Species
See Species section
Adansonia is a genus of eight species of tree, six native to Madagascar, one native to mainland Africa and the Arabian Peninsula and one to Australia. The mainland African species also occurs on Madagascar, but it is not a native of that island.

brewski
n. Slang, pl., -skies, or -skis.
  1. Beer.
  2. A serving of beer.
[BREW + -ski, -sky, n. suff. (from Russian -skiĭ , perhaps modeled on RUSSKY).]

Russky
n., pl., -skies.
Offensive. A Russian.

[Russian russkiĭ, Russian, from Rus', Rus. See Rus.]

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