A fire-control system is a computer, often mechanical, which is designed to assist a weapon system in hitting its target. It performs the same task as a human firing a weapon, for example, an archer or rifleman, but attempts to do so faster and more accurately.As someone who fiddles with fire-control systems, I dare to say that there should be written "often electronic". There is some progress - slowly but steady.
Nunca estas sola, sabes lo que tienes que hacer
No vayas a tu pueblo, tu discoteca te necesita
So let's dance through all our fears, war is over for a bit
The whole world should be moving do your part, cure a lonely heart
Your disco, your disco, your disco needs you!
Question: When should I use XML?
Answer: When you need a buzzword in your resumé.
No idea what XML is? Then forget about your resumé and play some Buzz & Honey.
The history of typhoon presents a perfect example of the long journey that many words made in coming to English. It traveled from Greece to Arabia to India, and also arose independently in China, before assuming its current form in our language. The Greek word tuphōn, used both as the name of the father of the winds and a common noun meaning “whirlwind, typhoon,” was borrowed into Arabic during the Middle Ages, when Arabic learning both preserved and expanded the classical heritage and passed it on to Europe and other parts of the world. Ṭūfān, the Arabic version of the Greek word, passed into languages spoken in India, where Arabic-speaking Muslim invaders had settled in the 11th century. Thus the descendant of the Arabic word, passing into English (first recorded in 1588) through an Indian language and appearing in English in forms such as touffon and tufan, originally referred specifically to a severe storm in India. The modern form of typhoon was influenced by a borrowing from the Cantonese variety of Chinese, namely the word taaîfung,Taaîfung, meaning literally “great wind,” was coincidentally similar to the Arabic borrowing and is first recorded in English guise as tuffoon in 1699. The various forms coalesced and finally became typhoon, a spelling that first appeared in 1819 in Shelley's Prometheus Unbound.This is not yet the end of hurricane trivia. Did you ever wonder, why it's not "himicane"? On this date in 1978 the US Department of Commerce had the chutzpah to declare that hurricanes would no longer be named exclusively after women. Why has this been done by the US Department of Commerce? What could I declare today?
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Der Glückliche
Ich hab ein Liebchen lieb recht von Herzen,
Hellfrische Augen hats wie zwei Kerzen,
Und wo sie spielend streifen das Feld,
Ach, wie so lustig glänzet die Welt!
Wie in der Waldnacht zwischen den Schlüften
Plötzlich die Täler sonnig sich klüften,
Funkeln die Ströme, rauscht himmelwärts
Blühende Wildnis - so ist mein Herz!
Wie vom Gebirge ins Meer zu schauen,
Wie wenn der Seefalk, hangend im Blauen,
Zuruft der dämmernden Erd, wo sie blieb? -
So unermeßlich ist rechte Lieb!
(Joseph von Eichendorff)
