First Olympic Appearance: 2000
by Mike Morrison and Mark Zurlo
Did You Know?
American Esther Kim earned a spot on the 2000 Olympic team by winning the United States selection trials.…
Crooked. (Erse kaam, squmteyed.) Clean Kam, perverted into Kim Kam, means wholly awry, clean from the purpose. “This is clean kam—merely awry.” Shakespeare: Coriolanus, iii. 1. Source…
The turban plant; Persian, thoulyb (thoulyban, a turban), by which name the flower is called in Persia. My tulip. A term of endearment to animals, as “Gee up, my tulip!” or “Kim up, my…
