The Academy considered naming the award the “Eddies” after Thomas Edison, but then opted for “Grammy” after Edison’s invention: the gramophone. As a result, they founded the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. These executives concluded that there were many people in the recording industry deserving of accolades but who would probably never make it to the Walk of Fame. The idea of a Grammy Award came up when recording executives were working on the Hollywood Walk of Fame project in the fifties. The first Grammy Awards ceremony was held in 1959 and focused on recognizing outstanding achievement in the recording industry. The first choice for “Sexiest Man” was Mel Gibson, in 1985. The “Sexiest Man Alive” edition now appears at the end of November each year. “People” is noted for its annual special editions with features such as “Best & Worst Dressed” and “Sexiest Man Alive”. This page was spun-off in 1974 as a publication of its own, which we now call “People” magazine. There used to be a “People” page in each issue of “Time” magazine. Sorry … I’ve never heard of him outside of the occasional crossword … “John Legend” is the stage name of singer-songwriter John Stephens. 25 People’s 2019 Sexiest Man Alive : LEGEND The first use of the term “bandwagon” in this sense is supposedly in the writings of Theodore Roosevelt in 1899. Bandwagons then became popular at political rallies, and so someone “on the bandwagon” was someone attaching himself or herself to a cause that was likely to succeed. “Bandwagon” is an American term originally used to describe the large wagon that carried the band in a circus procession. 23 Kind of lead a closer often has to protect : ONE-RUN “Lent” comes from “lenz”, the German word for “spring”. When the church began its move in the Middle Ages towards using the vernacular, the term “Lent” was introduced. In Latin, the Christian season that is now called “Lent” was termed “quadragesima” (meaning “fortieth”), a reference to the forty days that Jesus spent in the desert before beginning his public ministry. Their savage, slovenly ways gave rise to the use of “yahoo” in English to describe a lout or neanderthal. Yahoos are brutish creatures introduced by Irish author Jonathan Swift in “Gulliver’s Travels”. The Morlocks are a domineering race living underground who use the Eloi as food. The Eloi are the “beautiful people” who live on the planet’s surface. Wells called “The Time Machine”, there are two races that the hero encounters in his travels into the future. “Kith” comes from an Old English word meaning “native country, home”, as the expression “kith and kin” was used originally to mean “country and kinsmen”.
The word “kith” describes friends and acquaintances, and is used in the phrase “kith and kin” meaning “friends and family”. Today’s Wiki-est Amazonian Googlies Across
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