Uncle Sam, sine qua non, headdress

Breton women wearing the Bigouden distinctive headdress, one of the symbols of Breton identity

Breton women wearing the Bigouden distinctive headdress, one of the symbols of Breton identity

The Beautiful Angèle by Paul Gauguin

A London fashion blogger is aiming to change the way people view men with turbans and beards.

Meet Pardeep Singh Bahra, the Sikh Sartorialist

Pardeep Singh Bahra says he never aimed to make the turban a fashion accessory. The self-styled “turbaned fashion blogger” from the U.K. does though make the signature Sikh headdress a sartorial sine qua non for those...

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Google Glitch A Warning To Uncle Sam

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It ended with a post mortem on why Google's cloud went kaput for more than an hour on Thursday. Government IT managers should pay close attention to what ...

Uncle Sam

1. The government of the United States, often personified by a representation of a tall, thin man having a white beard and wearing a blue tailcoat, red-and-white-striped trousers, and a tall hat with a band of stars: “intent on giving states greater incentive to save both their dollars and Uncle Sam's” (New York Times).
2. The American nation or its people.

[From U.S., abbr. of UNITED STATES.]

sine qua non

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Pronunciation: /ˌsɪni kwɑː ˈnəʊn , ˌsʌɪni kweɪ ˈnɒn/

Definition of sine qua non in English:

NOUN

An essential condition; a thing that is absolutelynecessary:grammar and usage are the sine qua non of language teaching and learning

Origin

Latin, literally '(cause) without which not'.