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• Master Skydiver: FB#4000
• Technology consultant: Lawton Digital

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• blubberboys

1. • 1968, Bryce Walton, Harpoon Gunner, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, NY (1968), page 51,

     "Blubberboys were the absolute bottom scum of the Southern Ocean."

• calumnies
• cannikin

1. • 1883: Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

     He drew some cognac from the cask into a tin cannikin.

• carte-de-viste
• galumphingly (see NG article on elephants)
• gasoliers

1. • 2001, Oliver Sacks, Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood, Alfred A. Knopf (2001), 15,

     The chandeliers in the drawing room, originally gasoliers, had been converted to electric light sometime in the 1920s (but there were still odd gas jets and fittings all over the house so that, in a pinch, we could go back to gas lighting).

• grax

1. • 1968, Bryce Walton, Harpoon Gunner, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, NY (1968), page 84,

     "But then he lost his footing when he hit the deck, and sprawled flat in a puddle os stinking grax, a foul mixture of blood, grease, and swill."

• mango rain

1. A light rain shower
   • 2007, J. Michael Fay, Ivory Wars: Last Stand in Zakouma, National Geographic (March 2007), 47,

     Tiny circles pocked the dusty ground - there had been a "mango rain," a light shower, in the night.

• moidore

1. • 1883: Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

     English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Georges, and Louises, doubloons and double guineas and moidores and sequins, the pictures of all the kings of Europe for the last hundred years, strange Oriental pices stamped with what looked like wisps of string or its of spider's web, round pieces and square pieces, and pieces bored through the middle, as if to ware them round your neck - nearly every variety of money in the world must, I think, have found a place in that collection...

• oceanarium (photo available)
• quelea

1. • 2007, J. Michael Fay, Ivory Wars: Last Stand in Zakouma, National Geographic (March 2007), 47,

     Pierre's truck rumbled into camp at 3:30 a.m., sending millions of roosting queleas, finch-like birds, into a diluvian frenzy of flapping wings and chirping.

• scimitarlike

1. • 1968, Bryce Walton, Harpoon Gunner, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, NY (1968), page 59,

     "Now he saw that they were ugly, curved, scimitarlike blades on the ends of four-foot-long handles."

• semelparity

1. • 2009, David Quammen, Where the Salmon Rule, National Geographic (August 2009), page 37,

     "Unlike an Atlantic Salmon or most other species of vertebrate, a Pacific salmon breeds once and then dies. Scientists call the phenomenon semelparity."

• shochet

1. • 2001, Oliver Sacks, Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood, Alfred A. Knopf (2001), 9,

     He was by profession a boot and shoe manufacturer, a shochet (a kosher slaughterer), and later a grocer....

• wild ass (image in gallery)

[edit] Biographical

• American citizen
• U.S. Army veteran, armor branch, airborne
• MBA quantitative marketing; BBA information systems, quantitative business data analysis
• Limited vocabularies in:
  • Arabic
  • French
  • German
  • Russian
  • Spanish