January 19th, 2010 by Liz
Think you have the academic know-how to answer 50 questions on Answers.com and win money for school next year?
If the answer is yes, sit up straight and pay attention: Answers.com again plans to give away $20,000 in scholarships for college students. New countries have been added to the list of those eligible and this year the best submission of 50 or more answered questions wins a $5,000 scholarship.
You are eligible if you’re a student planning to be enrolled in a 2010-11 undergrad university program in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand or India.
For more info, click the image below or read on…
What? The Answers.com Scholarship Program plans to award one $5,000 scholarship, two $2,500 scholarships, and ten scholarships valued at $1,000 each.
How? Sign in to Answers.com with your username and answer at least 50 questions of your choice after January 1, 2010. The panel of judges will review the 50 answers you submit with your application for quality and accuracy to determine the winners.
Who? This scholarship is for students planning to be enrolled in undergraduate classes during the 2010-2011 academic year in the following countries: United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand or India.
When? All materials must be submitted (and postmarked) by March 31, 2010.
Be sure to read the FAQs and rules.
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Tags: Australia • Canada • college • India • Ireland • New Zealand • scholarship • United Kingdom • United States • university
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Today is Saint Patrick’s Day… Sure, you might think it’s a day of four leaf clovers, the color green, Guinness beer and leprechauns but take a minute to learn a few core ideas behind this day of merriment.
To start, here’s how Answers.com introduces the holiday:
Had it not been for a band of Irish marauders in the fifth century, March 17 might’ve been plain old Maewyn’s Day — because Maewyn wouldn’t have changed his name to Patrick, and he likely wouldn’t have become a saint. In fact, it wouldn’t have been a Day at all.
But as it happened, a certain 16-year-old Welsh lad was kidnapped by those Irish marauders, and during the six years young Maewyn spent in servitude as a shepherd in Ireland he experienced a religious awakening, then spent years studying in a monastery. He took on a new name, Patrick, and a new calling — converting his countrymen to Christianity.
Ok, history lesson over… Here are some tips from the Answers.com folks on how to celebrate the day:
How to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day:
- Wear green
- Pin a shamrock to your hat
- Speak with a brogue
- Wear brogues
- Drink Irish beer and spirits
- Wish your friends and family “Top o’ the morning to ye” and every so often cry out “Erin go bragh!” (Ireland forever)
- If you’re a mayor, dye your town’s rivers green and paint your lane markers green.
And if that’s not enough to get you going green, here are some trivia facts you can share over your beer:
Did you know?
- There are six cities in the US named Dublin. Some 34 million US residents claim Irish ancestry — rather more than the entire population of Ireland itself, which stands at about 6 million.
- Celts are pronounced kelts. Don’t be misled by the Boston Celtics basketball team, which is oddly pronounced seltics.
- Irish whiskey, as opposed to Scotch, is sweeter, smoother, and almost never peaty or smoky. It’s also spelled with an “e,” while Scotch is spelled “whisky.”
- Old Bushmills Distillery, in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, licensed in 1608 by James I of England, is the world’s oldest licensed whiskey distillery.
- The word whiskey comes from an Irish Gaelic term meaning “water of life.”
Posted in Featured topic: Looking at the Q&A’s of what’s on our minds today.
Tags: holiday • Ireland • Saint Paddy's Day • Saint Patrick's Day
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What a week for WikiAnswers in the blogosphere! I’m loving the asking and answering happening on all kinds of blogs. Diversity rules and as I’ve said, WikiAnswers has got plenty of that.
With Saint Patrick’s Day on Monday, everybody - including Beer on the Brain, Pieces, Too… and Heather and Jed - gave a happy exclamation of Erin go braugh (still don’t know what it means? Get the translation here).
Some, like World Passenger 2.0, needed first to know what the true meaning of St. Patrick’s Day is… but that’s ok. On the Tenure Track needed to know what all the pinching is about. I actually learned something new from Letters from the Moon -the game of hockey actually has its roots in Ireland!
But then Monday ended and so did the holiday of green beer. But bloggers moved on to other meaningful topics:
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Tags: beer • bloggers • blogosphere • entropy • Germany • hockey • Ireland • life expectancy • pathological liar • Saint Patrick's Day • soul
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March 13th, 2008 by Shara
I used to hate St. Patrick’s Day as a child. I was always so scared of the boys on the school playground who didn’t really care whether or not the girls were wearing green… we all got pinched. All day long. We could have dressed as asparagus stalks and they’d still have tormented us with pinches.
I’m not bitter.
It did get better though. Once I got to university, the holiday turned into an excuse to drink and dance and try to speak with an Irish accent. No one really pinched anymore. And now I’m a few years out of university and we still drink and dance and try to speak with Irish accents…responsibly, of course.
Doesn’t it seem funny that people outside Ireland celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with such vigor? Where did the holiday originate and why/how has it become such an international affair!? Thanks to WikiAnswers, I wonder no more!
Check out WikiAnswers now to ask and answer questions about leprechauns, green beer and St. Pat himself - the man, the myth and the legend.
Posted in Featured topic: Looking at the Q&A’s of what’s on our minds today.
Tags: beer • childhood • drinking responsibly • green • holiday • Ireland • leprechaun • party • pinch • playground • St. Patrick's Day • tradition
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