A male is a ‘mike’. We use letters selected from a standard phonetic, or spelling, alphabet so nobody fumbles for words. Spelling alphabets came about because early users of radios ...
The Paschal Candle
The candle, representing Christ himself, is blessed by the priest who then inscribes in it a cross, the first letters and last of the Greek alphabet, (Alpha and Omega `the beginning and the end ...
Weekend Break: Signal flags
In the days before radio or other electronic communication, sailors used a code of brightly colored flags to communicate with each other from afar.
Hurricane season is here. You could see the names Fiona, Julia and Walter soon
There are 21 possible storms forecast in the Atlantic this year, and there are 21 names ready to be used for each storm.
Google Stock Split: What Investors Should Know Going Forward
The aim of this article isn't to debate the merits of the stock split to GOOG but to discuss the stock price outlook after the split. See the outlook here.
2020 hurricanes breezing through the alphabet
The Greek alphabet was only ever used once before in 2005, when the first six letters were used as names for storms: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon and Zeta. That exceptional year saw the ...
Risk Of An Earnings Miss Is High With Google Over The Next Year
Analysts are slowly bringing down Google's earnings expectations over the next 18 months. See why I think Alphabet is expected to miss earnings expectations.
Alphabet Stock Looks Cheap as Fears of Google’s Demise Are Overdone
Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG ... as author Bohdan Kucheriavyi points out on Seeking Alpha. He says that Google’s model could change forever and that it “[risks] losing a significant portion of ...
GOOGL Stock Is the Safest Buy as FAANG Crashes
Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL ... Ian Bezek has written more than 1,000 articles for InvestorPlace.com and Seeking Alpha. He also worked as a Junior Analyst for Kerrisdale Capital, a $300 million ...
