You can see some of the faces and stories of the Red Cross Katrina relief response here. HELP CONTINUED AFTER THE STORM Katrina left behind such devastation, survivors needed help and support for years to come.ou can see some of the faces and stories of the Red Cross Katrina relief response here. HELP CONTINUED AFTER THE STORM Katrina left behind such devastation, survivors needed help and support for years to come.
With all the beer produced in Germany, there is of course a word for an idea that sounds like it must have originated from a drunken state - Schnapsidee. A Schnapsidee literally means a booze idea and is a term commonly used to indicate that an idea sounds crazy, useless, or completely foolish. However, most of the time Germans use the word even when they know there was no alcohol involved in someone's outlandish idea.
Scapula: The shoulder blade (or wingbone), the familiar flat triangular bone at the back of the shoulder. The word scapula (with the accent on the first syllable) is Latin. The Romans always employed the plural scapulae, the shoulder blades. Because the shoulder blade resembles the blade of a trowel (a small shovel), the word scapula is thought to have come from the Greek skaptein meaning to dig..