Sunday, August 15, 2010

balneal \bal-NEE-uhl\, adjective:

• Of or pertaining to baths or bathing.

Balneal stems from Greek, but its entry into English is uncertain.
Battery Bank

• An extra bill of higher denomination set aside for emergency funds. usually stored under the battery of a cellular phone.

I was running low on cash and had to float on my battery bank until payday.
Trivia
What American canned food product did Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev credit with saving his army from starvation during World War II?

• Spam. In his book Khrushchev Remembers (1970), he wrote, “We had lost our most fertile, food-bearing lands, the Ukraine and the Northern Caucasus. Without Spam, we wouldn’t have been able to feed our army.”

 
I accidentally posted today's birthdays and history last week. Oops. a week early. Oh well.