| Entebbe: International airport in Uganda, where on July 04, 1976, Israeli commandos staged a spectacularly daring and successful raid to free 105 mostly Jewish hostages held by pro-Palestinian hijackers of an Air France jet. In a dramatic shoot-out, the commandos killed the terrorists, who were being supported by President Idi Amin and his troops. They then hustled the hostages onto three waiting transport planes and flew them 2,000 miles to Israel. Entebbe stands for epic heroism, exultant victory against international terrorism and triumph against overwhelming odds. Enola Gay: The American B-29 bomber from which Col. Paul W. Tibbets, Jr., dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, a military-industrial city in Japan, on August 6, 1945. El Nino: A weather phenomenon set off by warm ocean currents near the Pacific coast of Peru, it results in abnormal storms, torrential rains, tornadoes and mud slides on the one hand, and draught on the other. The term El Nino has come to be synonymous with unpredictable and tempestuous behavior, much like that on a smaller scale of a temperamental prima donna. Eldorado: An imaginary kingdom, presumably somewhere in or near Peru, named after its king--Eldorado, "the gilded one". Legend had it that , on certainfestivals, the king was covered with oil and then powdered with gold dust, all of which he later washed off in a nearby lake. Manoa, the major city, was supposed to be resplendent in gold buildings and decorations, it's streets abounding in gold nuggets available to anyone who wanted them. The natives used gold only to beautify their lives. Driven by an insatiable hunger for gold, explorers set out on a futile search for Eldorado. In common parlance, an Eldorado is any place that holds out the promise of big, quick, easy money. epiphany: A usually sudden manifestation or perception of the essential nature or meaning things; an illuminating discovery. As a religious term, epiphany refers to a Christian festival commemorating the manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles at the coming of the Magi. Epiphany is celebrated on January 6th. |
 |