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Kinboshi

November 3, 2008

From wikipedia.org

“Kinboshi, literally meaning gold star, is a term used in professional sumo wrestling to describe a maegashira victory over a yokozuna.”

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D-Day

November 2, 2008

From wikipedia.org

“In English military parlance, D-Day is a term often used to denote the day on which a combat attack or operation is to be initiated. Whilst the initial D in D-day stands for the word day it often represents a variable, designating the day upon which some significant event will or has occurred.”

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Filet Mignon

“O Henry (pen name of William Sydney Porter) was the first to use the term filet mignon in his 1906 book The Four Million.” [read more at the Lobster Fact Blog]

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Collective Terms For a Group of Cats

“Any of the following collective terms for a group of cats are accurate: a clowder of cats, a pounce of cats; or for kittens only, a kindle of kittens, a litter of kittens, or an intrigue of kittens.” [source]

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Dwarf Planets

From wikipedia.org “The term “dwarf planet” was adopted in 2006 as part of a three-way classification of bodies orbiting the Sun. Objects that are large enough to have cleared the neighbourhood of their orbit are defined as “planets”, while those which are too small to be in hydrostatic equilibrium are defined as “small solar system [...]

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