There are a lot of women close to my age named "Peggy Sue" because of the Buddy Holly song. Over time, I got used to the idea that Peggys born before 1957 were actually Margaret and Peggys born in 1957 or later had the middle name Sue.
When Mom was pregnant with me, Dad spent the summer as a migrant worker. He parked Mom at her parent's farm, and she said she spent the whole summer eating tomatoes.
In getting this post ready, I read a lot about Glenn Seaborg. He was a real alchemist, having turned bismuth into gold, although only a few atoms at a time. The story about how he married his wife is adorable. And (in 1998) Discover magazine noted that
"Not only is Seaborg the first living scientist to have an element named after him, he’s also the only person who could receive mail addressed only in elements: Seaborgium, Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory where he still works), Berkelium, Californium, Americium."
Heehee! When you wrap a cord around something, it's spelled wind, pronounced wined, not like the air that blows around; that's pronounced winned. Then there's really no such word as winned, because the past tense of win is won, pronounce wun.
But you needed the past tense, which is wound, pronounce wowned, not like wound that is an injury -that's pronounce woond.
The five kamikazes in the middle picture are 17, 17, 17, 18, and 19 years old. The pilot holding the puppy is Corporal Yukio Araki, who died in his mission the next day at age 17.
"Not only is Seaborg the first living scientist to have an element named after him, he’s also the only person who could receive mail addressed only in elements: Seaborgium, Lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory where he still works), Berkelium, Californium, Americium."
But you needed the past tense, which is wound, pronounce wowned, not like wound that is an injury -that's pronounce woond.
English is so weird.