Titera’s Tidbit: Deep Blue
Deep Blue was a chess-playing computer developed by IBM. On May 11, 1997, the machine won a six-game match by two wins to one with three draws against world champion Garry Kasparov. Kasparov accused IBM of cheating and demanded a rematch, but IBM refused and dismantled Deep Blue. ”Deep Blue” is a play on IBM’s nickname, Big Blue.

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Titera’s Tidbit: Satellite
Meaning “planet that revolves about a larger one” first attested 1660s, in reference to the moons of Jupiter, from L. satellites, which was used in this sense 1610s by German astronomer Johannes Kepler (1571-1630). Galileo, who had discovered them, called them Sidera Medicæa in honor of the Medici family. Meaning “man-made machinery orbiting the Earth” first recorded 1936 as theory, 1957 as fact. Meaning “country dependent and subservient to another” is recorded from 1800.

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Titera’s Tidbit: Beer Goggles
This jocular term from college slang dates to the early 1980s. To wear “beer goggles” means to see things through an alcohol haze, so something that seemed like a very good idea the night before turns out to be a decidedly bad one in the light of day.

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Titera’s Tidbit: 20th Century Fox
Well into the next century, this renowned film studio retains the name it took in 1935 when William Fox’s pioneering Fox Film Corporation merged with a new concern, Twentieth Century Pictures, founded in 1933 by the legendary producer Darryl F. Zanuck and several partners. Fox specialized in building theaters, while Zanuck made films, and admirable arrangement that made the studio on of the most powerful and profitable in film history.

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Titera’s Tidbit: Coachella
This California desert city was once called Conchilla, meaning “little seashell”, so called because little shells could be found scattered across the landscape, once a seafloor. In 1909, a cartographer working on a survey crew misread the name and entered it on the San Jacinto atlas sheet as “Coachella”. Some residents objected that the name had no meaning, but others considered it “unique, distrinctive, and euphonious”, and it was soon made official.

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Titera’s Tidbit: Reindeer
The Scandinavian rein is the plural form for the cervids we call deer, which itself, in Old English, was the generic word for all animals. Thus a “reindeer” is a “deer deer”, strictly speaking.

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Titera’s Tibit: Tebowing
To get down on a knee and start praying, even if everyone else around you is doing something completely different.

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Titera’s Tidbit: Run it Though the Garden
This old-fashioned restaurant term, meaning “with everything on it”, has been revived recently to indicate that a purchaser wants everything – as in, curiously, the world of car sales, where a car “run through the garden” means it has all the options.

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Titera’s Tidbit: Christmas
In an Old English approximation of a Latin original, the Cristes moesse is the “mass of Christ”, denoting the festival period from December 25 to January 6, or the “twelve days of Christmas”. The festival was usually abbreviated Xmas, the X being the Greek letter chi, the first letter of Christ’s name in that language.

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Titera’s Tidbit: Ramp Up
In electronics, a “ramp” is a waveform in which voltage rises linearly with the passage of time, so a system can process ever greater increments of power. The term gained currency in the world of business, where “ramp up” means something like “give it more energy”, as in, “We’re ramping up operations so we can get a second store open by the holidays.”

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