History
February and January were introduced into the Roman calendar about 700 BCE when the calendar was extended from ten to twelve months. Before that Romans considered winter a monthless period.
February was named after the Latin word “februa” - which means cleansing or purification, and reflects the purification ritual undertaken before Spring.
The Saxons called February the “sprout-kale” - from the sprouting of cabbage or kale. In Finnish, the month is called “helmikuu”, meaning "month of the pearl" - snow melting on tree branches forms droplets which freeze again resembling pearls of ice. Ukrainians call this month “luty” (fierce), the month of ice and hard frost.
Google's name is a play on the word “googol”, which means the number 1 followed by one hundred zeroes.
As of December 31, 2005, Google employed 5,680 full time employees. Google employees are known as Googlers, and they are a very diverse team: one operations manager is a former neurosurgeon, one software engineer is a former rocket scientist. As Google has in its philosophy: “You can be serious without a suit.”
In 2002, American Dialect Society members voted "google" the "most useful" Word of the Year. In 2006, the verb “to google” was added to the Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary and the Oxford English Dictionary.
Word "fascism" originates from Italian fascio meaning "group, association". In 1919 Benito Mussolini formed the anti-communist political movement called partito nazionale fascista.
Initially, Nazis called themselves Nasos (the abbreviation for National Socialist German Workers’ Party). Later journalist and writer Konrad Heiden used the word "nazi" as a derogatory term: "nazi" is derived from Bavarian word that means "simple-minded."
To confuse Japanese U.S. Marine Corps employed over 300 Navajo-speaking American Indians as radio code talkers for their radio transmissions in the Pacific.
The first credit cards were issued in the United States in the 1920s by oil companies and hotel chains, and the purpose of these first cards was not the convenience, but to build customer loyalty.
Before plastic era the credit cards (or credit tokens) were made of metal coins or plates, celluloid, cardboard.
The first bank credit card named Charg-It was invented in 1946 by a Brooklyn banker. Unlike today’s cards allowing for purchases with countless third parties all over the world, Charg-It was based on the program between bank customers and local merchants only.
IKEA is a retailer selling low-price furniture, home accessories, bathrooms and kitchens around the world.
IKEA was founded in 1943 by Ingvar Kamprad in Sweden. The name IKEA comes from the initials of the founder's name (Ingvar Kamprad), farm where he grew up (Elmtaryd) and his home village (Agunnaryd).
Founded in 1943, IKEA today has over 235 stores in more than 30 countries and more than 110,000 co-workers (this is the exact word they use in egalitarian IKEA).
A survey in 2007 ranked 80-year old Ingvar Kamprad the second most admired man in Sweden.
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