
This declaration of a new state was followed by the immediate invasion of the area by four Arab countries and the start of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. The British Mandate expired on and the State of Israel was established at the same time. The British evacuated the area after WWII, largely responding to pressure from both Jewish and Arab nationalist movements. The land that is now Israel was ruled by the British after WWI as the British Mandate of Palestine. The term “coif” comes from an old French term “coife” describing a skull-cap that was worn under a helmet back in the late 13th century. 18 *Occasion to pin back one’s coif? : UPDO TIME (UP + DO TIME)Ī coif is a hairdo. Most of the Berbers can now be found in Morocco. The Berber peoples live in North Africa, west of the Nile. That’s almost the size of the United States. The Sahara is just that, a great desert covering almost 4 million square miles of Northern Africa. The name “Sahara” means “greatest desert” in Arabic. figures : DRSĪ doctor (dr.) might be found in a hospital (hosp.).

On the other side of the Atlantic, the spelling is “pyjamas”. And “pajamas” is another of those words that I had to learn to spell differently when I came to America. Our word “pajamas” (sometimes “PJs” or “jammies”) comes to us from the Indian subcontinent, where “pai jamahs” were loose fitting pants tied at the waist and worn at night by locals and ultimately by the Europeans living there. The verb “to bus” arose in the early 1900s and is probably a reference to the wheeled cart that was used to carry dishes.

5 Clear dishes from : BUSĪ busboy is a person who assists a waiter, mainly by clearing tables. It erupted almost continuously starting in 1983, until it entered a period of inactivity following a months-long explosive event in 2018. Kilauea is one of the five active volcanoes that form the Big Island of Hawaii. Today’s Wiki-est Amazonian Googlies Across
