even though the swastika can "spiral" both clockwise and counterclockwise while the Nazi version only runs counterclockwise, both versions are now associated by many with the Nazis.
In the Nazi flag, the swastika "spirals" one way or the other depending on which side you're looking at.
What on earth is this supposed to mean?:
- The asterisk. These days, threatened to denote cheaters. In its original day, used to denote that Roger Maris had 8 more games to play than Babe Ruth did.
Asterisks have (and have had) tons of uses, such as being a visual "bleep" in writing swearwords; being a times sign; denoting "any string of characters" in a search; even (on the annunciators of London buses) being short for "this bus is on diversion". Does the given example have relevance to anything, much less Older Than They Think?
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Yes, it does. It's referring to how the asterisk character is used in the context of baseball.
The asterisk's intended use in baseball is shown here:
http://www.baseball-almanac.com/score2b.shtml
This article shows how the use of the asterisk in baseball has changed:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/27/weekinreview/27barra.html?_r=1
As does this one, which spells it out even more clearly:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33718-2004Dec3.html
This change in meaning was even used in an anti-steroid ad campaign:
http://www.adcouncil.org/newsDetail.aspx?id=241
Granted, it's not too clear what it's talking about from the outset. I'll go change that, but it definitely deserves to remain here.
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The holiday of Easter is known in ALL other European languages with a name deriving from Latin Paschalis. That's clearly not true:
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