235. Approximately thereabouts....

Which latin term meaning “in approximately” is widely used in genealogy and historical writing, to denote dates or periods which cannot be determined accurately?

234. Tooth-aches and annunciation...-

Consider a hypothetical situation where X and Y meet each other on the streets in late 19th century Europe and the following conversation ensues:

X: Aaah! I have such an ache!
Y (with a lot of concern): Where?
X (opening his mouth and pointing to the upper set of teeth): My teeth, of course!
Y (oozing more concern): Does it pain?
X: Yes, as much as it did on our day of the Lady of the Annunciation!!

What’s going on?!!!

233. Five Colors - A medley.

These exquisite porcelain jars of Thailand were highly prized and used only in the royal household and upper class Thai families. The name literally means “Five Colors” and each piece is painstakingly crafted with hand-applied, real gold masks laid over the white ceramic, enabling the artist to produce a tactile, detailed Thai pattern around the gold.



What are they called?

232. The flowers of Yamazakura...

One of the most famous poems in Japanese history, a tanka by Edo era scholar Motoori Norinaga starts thus:

If someone asks about the Yamato spirit of Shikishima
it is the flowers of yamazakura that are fragrant in the Asahi


Significance Please?

231. User Generated Content and the Beastie Boys?

A website design where a site's main or most visible pages are professionally written, edited, and laid out, while the rest of the site relies on content supplied by volunteers and site visitors (UGC etc) is called a X strategy.

The term X was apparently popularized by a 1994 Beastie Boys song as well as by personalities like the one shown below.



What be X?

230. The mother of all hyperboles...

This patented invention saw its first commercial use in Chillicothe, Missouri…… and gave rise to a fairly popular hyberbole.

Which one?

229. The concocter of potions....

Felice ______ was an Italian pharmacist, a maker of liquor and freedom fighter under Garibaldi. Born in Gerolanuova near Brescia, he established a chemical laboratory in Milano, developing a successful amaro made as an alcohol infusion of cinchona bark, herbs, and iron salts. The laboratory made the "l'esanofele", a chemical based on quinine, iron and arsenic to combat malaria.

Why is this person very important in an Indian context?