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Provided by the compucert impregnable \im-PREG-nuh-buhl\, adjective:
1. Not capable of being stormed or taken by assault; unconquerable; as, an impregnable fortress.
2. Difficult or impossible to overcome or refute successfully; beyond question or criticism; as, an impregnable argument.
February 16, 2007: professional celebrity
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=professional+celebrity&defid=1993427
- A famous person who has no discernable talent other than being famous.
Paris Hilton is a professional celebrity.
Word of the day:...........'las bolsas' [BOL-sahs]
English translation:........ stock markets
In The News (flash cards):
Las bolsas mundiales cierran con ganancias.
The global stock markets close with profits.
Daily Trivia:
What famous writer, when he was an editor at a major publishing house, rejected Thor Heyerdahl’s Kon-Tiki?
William Styron—before becoming a best-selling author. His assessment of the adventure classic was: “This is a long, solemn, tedious Pacific voyage best suited, I would think, to some kind of drastic abridgment in a journal like the National Geographic.” Styron later immortalized his bad judgment by having the narrator of his novel Sophie’s Choice repeat it.
2 comments:
Bobby,
Thank you so much for posting the trivia about Kon-Tiki. My book, "Voyage of the Manteño," which is about my experiences building and sailing balsa rafts, has just come out and I have received a couple of reviews that are almost precisely the same as Styron's. What's so wierd about it is that I frequently receive comments from strangers who say that they could not put it down, and yet Kirkus reviews called it "monotonous."
Anyway, thanks for your posting.
John Haslett
"Voyage of the Manteño"
(St. Martin's Press, Dec.06)
PS I am a modeler as well, but with The Expeditions, I rarely have the time, which is a shame.
Well, it's nice to meet you! If you're ever in teh NY area, drop me a line!
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