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LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE MIND

NOVEMBER 2001

THIS MONTH

Bible Verses of the Month Compliments of ArcaMax Bible Verses http://www.arcamax.com/ezines.html

God is Love - All Powerful, All Knowing, Intimately Acquainted with all our ways... Eternal Thanksgiving! ------------- Each of the four living creatures had six wings and was covered with eyes all around, even under his wings. Day and night they never stop saying: "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was, and is, and is to come."  Whenever the living creatures give glory, honor and thanks to him who sits on the throne and who lives for ever and ever, the twenty-four elders fall down before him who sits on the throne, and worship him who lives for ever and ever.  Revelation 4:8-10 NIV ------------- We give thee thanks, O LORD God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned. And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth. Revelation 11:17-18 KJV ------------- And all the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures; and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, saying, "Amen, blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might, be to our God forever and ever. Amen." Revelation 7:11-12 NASB ------------- Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift: Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God is the object of our faith; the only faith that saves is faith in Him. ------------- Translations: KJV - King James Version          RSV - Revised Standard Version NIV - New International Version   NASB - New American Standard Bible NKJV - New King James Version

JEC's Tip Of The Month

From the business-oriented magazines that you read, tear the pages of those articles of interest to you and store them in notebooks to create reference manuals.

Trivia Of The Month
Who Ya Callin' Pipsqueek? (Source: A BROWSER'S DICTIONARY) by John Ciardi Compare the price of this book, toys, electronics, gifts & more: This word sounds so much like what it describes that you  almost might be able to guess its meaning, even if you were hearing it for the first time.  As it turns out pipsqueak  does come to us directly from the sound of something. In the cacophony of battle, sound is relative.  What might  strike one as a loud sound at any other time could seem  diminished when compared to a battle's bigger boom.  So it was in World War I.  The Germans had powerful artillery pieces, as the Allied soldiers knew all too well.  But they also had smaller guns, the shells from which announced their arrival with a lesser calling card and exploded with a less significant burst.  One such shell seemed to squeak as it came in, exploding with something more akin to a pip than a kaboom.  The Brits and Yanks even called it a "pipsqueak."  Later, by extension, it described a person of lesser significance.  Son of a gun!	Hold the Mayo (Source: ISAAC ASIMOV'S BOOK OF FACTS) Compare the price of this book, toys, electronics, gifts & more: Tuna are always on the move.  They never stop swimming, plowing ahead at a constant nine miles an hour all their  lives.  An individual tuna may easily cover a million miles  in its lifetime.  And all that just to end up between two  pieces of whole-wheat toast nestled against a few slices of  tomato. You can find a living fossil in the Mississippi River: the  230-million-year-old paddlefish.  It's allowed to use the  river's main channel during rush hour, but only if it  conserves energy by travelling with the canoefish.
Why Do We Sometimes Call a Hodgepodge a Mishmash? (Sources: Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins by William and Mary Morris; The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology, edited by C. T. Onions;  THE OXFORD COMPANION TO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, edited by Tom McArthur) Compare the price of this book, toys, electronics, gifts & more:  If you come from the northeastern United States, you might suspect that there's a spelling error here.  Isn't it  "mishmosh?"  Isn't this another one of those slang  Yiddishisms that have made their way into colloquial English, like something being "kosher?"  Well, no.  It's not even Yinglish, that blend of English and Yiddish that produced language-bridging expressions such as "fancy-shmancy." Mishmash, in fact, has a fairly old English pedigree.  It  dates from about 1500, about the time that "mash," a crushed mixture with the consistency of mush, also entered the language.  Mishmash is what linguists call a reduplication, a doubling of a word root or syllable to form a new word.  The result is a word that sounds very much like what it describes.  And that's the whole megillah.	Today She Would Wear Sneakers (Source: FABULOUS FALLACIES) Compare the price of this book, toys, electronics, gifts & more:  Cinderella is one of our most beloved children's stories.  Who can forget the mistreated girl who ends up with the  Prince and the glass slipper? Whoa!  There ain't no glass slipper.  This error came about because the most well known version of the old legend – the one from the Mother Goose stories – contains a  mistranslation.  The fellow who got it from the old French  mistook "pantouffles en vair," slippers lined with white  squirrel fur, for "pantouffles en verre," slippers of glass. White squirrel fur?  Not only does she really believe that  she has a fairy godmother, she's also kinky to boot?