Showing posts with label Military. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Military. Show all posts

Friday, 29 June 2012

No. 189.

Actor Jimmy Stewart achieved the military rank of Brigadier General.

(Source: Talking Pictures by Barry Norman. Verified by Wikipedia.)

Tuesday, 3 January 2012

No. 11.

Mufti, a word now meaning casual clothing, originally was an Arabic term for a scholar of Sharia Law. It gained its current definition via the British Army - mufti was the vaguely Eastern clothes worn by off-duty officers.

(Source: Wikipedia. Researched as curious to the ethnic origins of the word.)