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"Homer and Lisa Exchange Cross Words" is the sixth episode of the twentieth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on November 16, 2008. In the episode, Lisa discovers that she has a talent for solving crossword puzzles, and
The Fog Warning is one of several paintings on marine subjects by the late-19th-century American painter Winslow Homer (1836–1910). Together with The Herring Net and Breezing Up, painted the same year and also depicting the hard lives of fishermen in Maine, it is considered among his best works on such topics.
The most influential work in this area in the last few decades is that of Richard Janko, whose 1982 study Homer, Hesiod and the Hymns uses statistics based on a range of dialectal pointers to argue that the text of both epics became fixed in the latter half of the 8th century BCE, though he has since argued for an even earlier date. [31]
Homer bought Lisa a pony to show her that he loves her, but he has to work two jobs to keep her. When Lisa discovers this she gives up Princess. Stampy – Stampy was an African elephant briefly owned by the Simpson family in the episode " Bart Gets an Elephant ".
The work is known as Homerus Latinus and was formerly attributed to Pindarus Thebaeus. [40] The West tended to view Homer as unreliable, as they believed they possessed much more down-to-earth and realistic eyewitness accounts of the Trojan War written by Dares and Dictys Cretensis, who were supposedly present at the events.
Homer meets an old Mickey Mantle rookie card in the couch, which Homer calls the greatest treasure of his youth. Homer then notices a Rubik's Cube and rips the Mickey Mantle card so he can go to the Rubik's Cube instead. After turning it once to try and solve it, Homer becomes frustrated at the Rubik's Cube.
At the tournament, Homer bets his money on Lisa and wins. Learning Lisa is unsure about the final round, he bets against her and wins again when she loses. Angry that Homer bet against her, she disowns him. To apologize, Homer commissions a New York Times crossword with his apology written in the clues and solution, and the two reconcile. [20]
An acrostic is a type of word puzzle, related somewhat to crossword puzzles, that uses an acrostic form. It typically consists of two parts. The first part is a set of lettered clues, each of which has numbered blanks representing the letters of the answer.