The term “illegal alien” is loaded with a presumption of criminal guilt.
In contrast, “undocumented worker” is a neutral description of the situation of people who are in the United States without papers proving their legal status.
If an immigration court were to hear their cases, it might conceivably uphold their right to be here.
“Illegal alien” is even worse than “illegal immigrant.” The term “alien” sounds like a monster from a science fiction movie, like the 1997 movie Men in Black, in which the “illegal aliens” were just that.
A group of French engineers from Napoleon’s army found the Rosetta Stone near Alexandria, Egypt.
In 1799, they were getting ready to demolish an ancient wall outside Rosetta, a city near Alexandria, Egypt.
They stumbled upon a carved stone which, because it had the same message in three ancient languages, ended up becoming the key to translating Egyptian hieroglyphics.
It just goes to show that it’s not always the archaeologists and explorers who make the most significant finds — in fact, it’s often just some nobody who happens to be in the right place at the right time.
For example, the discoverer of the Dead Sea Scrolls was a simple herdsman looking for a lost goat.
To be drunk as blazes comes from a feast day created by the Orthodox church to honor a sainted Armenian bishop named Blais.
Blais was beheaded by the Roman Emperor Licinius for refusing to deny his faith in 316 A.D.
The excessive drinking on St. Blais’s day caused the revellers to be referred to as “drunken Blaisers”.
And soon anyone anywhere who was overly intoxicated was said to be as drunk as blazes.
Until this century, all tea was sold in large bags or in tins.
Then in 1904, a New York merchant named Thomas Sullivan began shipping tea to his customers in small silk bags.
The customers found that it was easy to brew the tea right in the silk bags, and the tea bag was born!
