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Sunday, January 31, 2010
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Correct answers from Mainak, John Rebus, mit and Ameya.
Answer: Serendipity - Quoting John Rebus, "the pic is of Horace Walpole, who coined the word serendipity, which he derived from a fairy tale called The Three Princes of Serendip, which is set in the island of Serendip, which is the old Persian name of modern Sri Lanka."
Sunday, January 31, 2010
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Correct answers from Mainak, John Rebus, mit and Ameya.
Answer: Serendipity - Quoting John Rebus, "the pic is of Horace Walpole, who coined the word serendipity, which he derived from a fairy tale called The Three Princes of Serendip, which is set in the island of Serendip, which is the old Persian name of modern Sri Lanka."
6 comments:
- Unknown said...
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Palk.the briton is Robert Palk and palk strait in Srilanka.
- Sunday, January 31, 2010 1:01:00 PM
- Mainak said...
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Serendipity?
Word coined by the man in the first pic, Horace Walpole. Serendip is also the Persian name for Sri Lanka. - Sunday, January 31, 2010 2:32:00 PM
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Serendipity.
The pic is of Horace Walpole, who coined the word serendipity, which he derived from a fairy tale called The Three Princes of Serendip, which is set in the island of Serendip, which is the old Persian name of modern Sri Lanka. - Sunday, January 31, 2010 2:52:00 PM
- Unknown said...
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Pic 1=Horace Walpole, Pic 2= Sri Lanka. The word serendipity comes from serendip, the Persian name for Sri Lanka,and was coined by Horace Walpole.
- Sunday, January 31, 2010 9:06:00 PM
- navinpai said...
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wild guess of the month:
Fonseka - Sunday, January 31, 2010 9:36:00 PM
- Ameya said...
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The word derives from Serendip, the Persian name for Sri Lanka,[3] and was coined by Horace Walpole on 28 January 1754 in a letter he wrote to his friend Horace Mann
- Monday, February 01, 2010 2:13:00 PM
6 comments:
Palk.the briton is Robert Palk and palk strait in Srilanka.
Serendipity?
Word coined by the man in the first pic, Horace Walpole. Serendip is also the Persian name for Sri Lanka.
Serendipity.
The pic is of Horace Walpole, who coined the word serendipity, which he derived from a fairy tale called The Three Princes of Serendip, which is set in the island of Serendip, which is the old Persian name of modern Sri Lanka.
Pic 1=Horace Walpole, Pic 2= Sri Lanka. The word serendipity comes from serendip, the Persian name for Sri Lanka,and was coined by Horace Walpole.
wild guess of the month:
Fonseka
The word derives from Serendip, the Persian name for Sri Lanka,[3] and was coined by Horace Walpole on 28 January 1754 in a letter he wrote to his friend Horace Mann
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