My brother used to watch a kid's show called Pinwheel when he was little, so I broke into song too..... Apparently I still know the theme song... I didn't need those brain cells for anything useful. cool, cool.
I tried for the longest to remember the word "shuriken" and failed. A bit disappointed that I had to google it in the end. I mean that the answer is given as "throwing star" and I still didn't know the word I was looking for.
I had one until the mid/late-2000s, although it was largely just a backup by the late 90s. Technology was changing so quickly with various email systems, computer directories, blackberries, palm pilots and other PDA's, and cell phones that electronic contact lists were lost to obsolete technology regularly. But the primitive Rolodex was always reliable.
Those of us of a certain age still refer to people's contacts as their "Rolodex" (as in "he's got a great Rolodex for people in that industry") even though none of us has used one in years. I wonder how many younger colleagues don't understand what we mean.
that is definitely not an amphitheatre, but just a theatre.
in fact, the name identifies a theatre which has places by both sides (amphi- = "around to" but also "both") while the picture shows clearly a single side theatre (theatron in greek).
Properly, an amphitheatre is the Colosseum of Rome (or the ones you can find still standing in Verona, Capua, Arles, Nimes)
I'd add hoist as well, in my limited world it stops becoming a pulley when the rope is replaced by a cable or chain. I know they are still pulleys but hoist infers a more industrial application as does the rusted chain in the picture.
Those of us of a certain age still refer to people's contacts as their "Rolodex" (as in "he's got a great Rolodex for people in that industry") even though none of us has used one in years. I wonder how many younger colleagues don't understand what we mean.
in fact, the name identifies a theatre which has places by both sides (amphi- = "around to" but also "both") while the picture shows clearly a single side theatre (theatron in greek).
Properly, an amphitheatre is the Colosseum of Rome (or the ones you can find still standing in Verona, Capua, Arles, Nimes)