In 1884, Angelo Moriondo of Turin, Italy, demonstrated the first working example of an espresso machine.
PINGPONG
Ping"-pong`, n. [Imitative.]
1. An indoor modification of lawn tennis played with small bats, or battledores, and a very light, hollow, celluloid ball, on a large table divided across the middle by a net.
2. A size of photograph a little larger than a postage stamp.
Ping"-pong`, v. i.
Definition: To play ping-pong.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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SHTIK
(noun) (Yiddish) a little; a piece; “give him a shtik cake”; “he’s a shtik crazy”; “he played a shtik Beethoven”
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