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This trivia quiz will stretch your long-term memory muscles. By Clare Mendez, Resident 1. 1869: This waterway between the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea was opened to shipping traffic. Ten years in construction, it enabled ships to travel from Europe to Asia without having to go around Africa. 2. 1883: Four standard time zones were established for the continental United States under pressure from this industry. 3. 1918: At the eleventh hour, on the eleventh day, of the eleventh month, this came to an official end. 4. 1922: The entrance to the ancient tomb of this "Boy King" was discovered in Egypt. 5. 1942: A fire in the Coconut Grove nightclub in this city killed nearly 500 people, including cowboy film star Buck Jones. 6. 1963: President John Kennedy was killed and this Texas governor was injured while riding in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas. 7. 1966: He became the first African American elected to the U.S. Senate. 8. 1968: Richard Nixon won the presidency, defeating Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey and this third party candidate. 9. 1978: Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk were shot to death inside this city's City Hall. 10. 1980: American TV viewers finally learned that Kristin Shepard, the sister-in-law played by Mary Crosby, was the one who committed this famous TV crime. 11. 1991: This Los Angeles Lakers basketball star announced that he had tested positive for the AIDS virus and was retiring. 12. 1999: This six-year-old Cuban refugee was found floating in an inner tube off the Florida coast by sport fishermen — an event that would spark a seven-month, high profile custody battle between is Cuban and U.S. relatives. November in History Answers on the following page 10 SOLERA DIAMOND VALLEY | NOVEMBER 2020 By Theresa Rossetti, Resident In our U.S. government, we have NASA, the CIA, the FBI, the CDC, the NIH, and boatloads of other agencies identified by acronyms. Over the last 20 or so years, with the advent of texting and use of social media, the use of acronyms has exploded. I would bet many of us have gotten a text or an email from someone of, shall we say, the younger generation, and they used one, which you may or may not have been able to interpret. To help us all out, I've compiled a very limited list of some of the most common, giving you the most likely meaning from people who are old enough to live here, and then what "the kids" say it means. US THEM BFF – Best Friend Fell Best Friend Forever BTW – Bring the Wheelchair By the Way IMHO – Is My Hearing Aid on In My Humble Opinion TTYL – Talk to You Louder Talk to You Later FYI – Found My Insulin For Your Information TGIF – Thank Goodness it's 4 o'clock Thank God It's Friday FWB – Friend with Beta Blockers Friend with Benefits JK – Just Kvetching Just Kidding Then there's LOL. To the youngun's its Laughing Out Loud, to us – take your pick – Living on Lipitor, Little Old Lady, or as my husband insists, Lots of Love. There are a number of different versions of ROFL (Rolling on the Floor Laughing) for the under 55 crowd. In our case we might want to use ROFLACGU – Rolling on the Floor Laughing and Can't Get Up! Just in case you think the use of acronyms is a fairly new thing, M&Ms were named after Forrest Mars and Bruce Murrie, ZIP stands for Zone Improvement Plan, TIME is The International Magazine of Events, and Spam comes from Shoulder of Pork and Ham. Thanks to Dick Roppé for these! Acronyms – You Can't Escape Them