The Jeweled PageEver wonder where the phrase “Catch-22″ came from? For example: You can’t get a job without experience, but you can’t get experience without a job” That type of exasperating situation is often referred to as a “Catch-22″. The phrase dates back to 1961 when it was used as the title of a Joseph Heller novel. [...]
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In 1968, the Beatles released their famous “White Album“. That title is actually an exercise in redundancy. The word “album” means, literally, “a blank slate” (from the Latin “albus“, “white.” In time the meaning came to include a blank bound book in which photographs or other materials could be kept; and eventually its meaning was [...]
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