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Sketch Crossword Clue 4 Letters – Dow Jones & Company was founded as a publishing house in 1882 by three newspaper reporters, Charles Dow, Edward Jones and Charles Bergstresser. Today, the company’s most famous publication has to be “The Wall Street Journal”. In 1884, Charles Dow began reporting the average dollar value of eleven companies’ stocks, an index that produced the various metrics that carry the Dow Jones name to this day. The most famous metric is the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), also known as the “Dow 30” or simply “Dow”.

Eugene Levy is a Canadian actor. He is the only actor to have appeared in all of the “American Pie” movies. Levy plays the clueless, but loving, Dad.

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The New York Islanders are an NHL team, one of three such franchises in the New York City area (along with the New Jersey Devils and New York Rangers). When the team was founded in 1972, it was designated as a “Long Island franchise”, and it was expected to be named the Long Island Ducks, but “New York Islanders” was designated.

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When touch typing, typists allow four fingers of each hand to return to the eight keys in the middle of the keyboard. This “house key” for the left hand is A-S-D-F, and for the right hand is J-K-L-; (dotted point).

“Touché” is a term from fencing, which recognizes a successful “touch” in a fight. Its use has been extended to mean that criticism or successful retaliation has struck in conversation.

The University of California, Berkeley (Cal) is the hardest public university in the world to get into. It opened in 1869, and was named for the Anglo-Irish philosopher George Berkeley.

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Lamé is a fabric that has metallic threads included in the weave. It is a popular fabric for fashionable evening wear, and also in fencing. The metal thread is conductive and therefore helps register the touch by the épée.

To be on the lam is to be in flight, to have escaped from prison. “On the lam” is American slang that originated in the late 19th century. The word “lam” also means “hit” or “beat”, as in “lambaste”. So “on the lam” probably comes from the phrase “to beat it, to scram”.

Mount Etna on the island of Sicily is the largest of the three active volcanoes in Italy, and indeed the largest of all active volcanoes in Europe. Etna is about 2 1/2 times the height of its equally famous sister, Mount Vesuvius. Mt. Etna is home to a 110 km long narrow gauge railway, and two ski resorts. It is sometimes referred to as “Mongibello” in Italian, and as “Mungibeddu” (sometimes “Muncibeddu”) in Sicilian. The English name “Etna” comes from the Greek “aitho” meaning “I eat”.

Alan Turing was an English mathematician. He is highly regarded for his code-breaking work during World War II at Bletchley Park in England. However, despite his contribution to breaking the German Enigma code and other important work, Turing was accused of homosexuality in 1952. He agreed to chemical castration, treatment with female hormones, and then two years later he committed suicide by taking cyanide. Turing’s life story was told in the 2014 film “The Imitation Game” with Benedict Cumberbatch playing the lead role. I really enjoyed the movie…

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“Attaché” is a French term meaning “attached”, and is used for a person assigned to the administrative staff of some other agency or service. The term is best known as it applies to someone assigned to the Ambassador’s staff at an embassy. The word was extended to “enclosure case” in the early twentieth century, meaning a leather case used to carry paper. I think the attache case may be “attached” to the attache at the embassy …

Ana Gasteyer is an actress best known for being a cast member of “Saturday Night Live” (SNL) from 1996 to 2002. Gasteyer is best known on SNL for playing Martha Stewart … topless!

The Roman Colosseum was the largest amphitheater in the entire Roman Empire at its time, and could hold approximately 50,000 people. The structure was originally called “Amphitheatrum Flavium” but the name was changed to “Colosseum” after a large statue of Emperor Nero was located nearby.

An Axel is a forward takeoff jump in figure skating. This move was first performed by Axel Paulsen from Norway at the 1882 World Figure Skating Championships.

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“Passé” is a French word, meaning “pass, fade”. We have imported the term into English, and use it in the same sense.

The word “yen”, meaning “thrust”, has been in the English language since the early 1900s. It comes from the initial word “yin” imported from Chinese, which is used in English to describe a strong desire for opium.

The term “spam”, used for unsolicited e-mail, is taken from a “Monty Python” sketch. In the sketch (which I’ve seen) the dialogue is taken over by the word Spam, a play on the superiority of tinned meat in the post-World War II British market. So “spam” is used for excess email that takes over online communication. I can imagine nerdy Internet types (like me) using something from a “Monty Python” sketch to explain online phenomena…

A parabola is roughly a u-shaped curve. A parabolic mirror has a cross section that is a parabolic curve. Such mirrors have the characteristic that the light emanating from the focal point of the parabola leaves the mirror as parallel beams, converging beams.

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Pâté is a rich spreadable paste made from a mixture of ground meat and fat that can be topped with various vegetables, herbs and spices. The most famous pâté version is pâté de foie gras, which is made from goose fat liver (“foie gras” means “fat liver” in French).

In his time, Attila the Hun was the most feared enemy of the Roman Empire, until he died in 453 AD. Attila was the leader of the Hunnic Empire in central Europe and was known for invading much of the continent. However, he never attacked Rome directly.

“Corral” is a Spanish word we have imported into English that describes an enclosure for livestock. Finally, the term comes from the Vulgar Latin “currale” meaning “enclosure for a car”, which itself comes from “currus”, Latin for “car”.

Cylindrical pasta is commonly known as “penne”, and there are many variants. For example, ziti is a very large, long tube with a square cut end. “Penne” is the plural of “penna”, Italian for “feather, feather”.

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Pluto is Mickey Mouse’s pet dog, as well as a star in his own right. Pluto is an unusual Disney character in that he is portrayed essentially as a dog as opposed to a “humanized” canine version, like other Disney characters.

The game of miniature golf appeared in the early 1900s. The name “putt-putt” is quite commonly used for the game today in the US. The name comes from the Putt-Putt Fun Center chain of courses founded in Fayetteville, North Carolina in 1954. Putt-Putt courses are actually quite simple compared to actual miniature golf courses that are often themed. Regardless, the names “putt-putt” and “mini golf” have been combined over time.

Our word “cabana” comes from the Spanish “cabaña”, the word for a small hut or cabin. We often use the term to describe a tent-like structure next to a pond.

“King Tut” is the name commonly used for the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun. Tutankhamun may not be the most important pharaoh in history, but he is the most famous today mainly because of the discovery of his nearly intact tomb in 1922 by Howard Carter. Prior to this discovery, any Egyptian tomb that archaeologists found had been destroyed by grave robbers. Tutankhamun’s magnificent burial mask is one of Egypt’s most recognizable artifacts.

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Director Wes Anderson’s most famous film is probably “The Royal Tenenbaums” which was released in 2001, and is not my favorite film. However, it was Anderson’s 2007 release “The Darjeeling Limited”, which I enjoyed.

Traditionally, a chaperone (often a “chaperon” in Britain and Ireland) is a woman who accompanies a young unmarried woman in public, with the term “chaperon” originating in France. The French word used to mean “hood, veil” goes back to the 12th century, the diminutive “chape” meaning “cloak”. So, our word “chaperone” has the same root as our word “cape” and indeed “cap”. The idea is that a chaperone “covers” someone who is socially vulnerable.

The verb “to vet” comes from the term “vet”. The idea is that to examine something is to subject it to careful examination, like a veterinarian examining an animal.

Dame Maggie Smith is a great and wonderful actress from England. Although Smith had an extensive stage career, he is perhaps best known outside Britain as a film and television actor. She has won two Oscars, including Best Actress for playing the lead role in “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” 1969. TV viewers

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