What do the initials B.A.C. represent?
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Medically it means Blood Alcohol Content
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PS : Post Scriptum (after writing in Latin)\n\nCC : Carbon Copy\n\nBCC : Blind Carbon Copy\n\nThis "Carbon" originally comes from this "era" when we where using carbons on typewriters :-)
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The first person is quite correct about the translation. Moreover, the person who designed the seal says that the phrase "signifies the beginning of the new American era." It is derived from a phrase in Virgil's Eclogues where he is talking about the new order of peace created by Augustus.
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The word “pound” comes from the Latin word pendere, meaning “to weigh”. The Latin word libra means “scales, balances" and it also describes a Roman unit of mass similar to a pound. This is the origin of the abbreviation “lb” for the pound. The “s” at the end of “lbs” simply denotes the plural form.
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Woah, that's a tough one. Is it from an IQ test perhaps?\n\nI haven't solved it but would suggest that we think in terms of those letters being the first letter of items in a list that we would normally know the order of.  Such as JFMAMJJASOND being the months of the year. I don't believe the order has to do with their position in the alphabet.\n\nPLEASE let us know if you get the answer!
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NOVOS ORDO SECLORUM' = New nonreligious Order\n\n'ANNUIT COEPTIS' = it literally means someone or something "has approved our beginnings". \n\n"From many, one" or "Out of many, one" (e=out of, from; 'E PLURIBUS UNUM' = pluribus=many; unum=one).
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trina dosent know what the hell shes talking about.....\nnow, if it were easy, wouldn't you be seeing alot of 'em?\nor just one of 'em, for that matter? I think even jesse james would have a very difficult time fabricating that one!\n\n\np.s; BTW, s.b. stands for small block V 8. its not the same, trina
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2006 CE (common era). BC and AD were changed to "Before Common Era (BCE) and CE. They're based on the same numbering, so many people argue that it's just a dumb PC way of saying BC and AD. \n\nMore importantly, perhaps, is that 1 AD was most likely NOT the birth date of Jesus (http://www.aloha.net/~mikesch/year.htm). He was most likely born around 5 AD. Remember measurement tools weren't quite as accurate back then. At the end of the day it's just about standardization. Jesus was also probably born in the summer, not December. But that date fit with the holidays of other religious at the time Christanity was spreading. It's always been about what's easiest...
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becsuse the sounds and letters were given meaning
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Secular way of saying A.D. (As in year 2006 A.D.)\nB.C. is also known as Before Common Era.
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One theory asserts that the DR and CR come from the Latin past participles of debitum and creditum which are "debere" and "credere", respectively. Another theory is that DR stands for "debit record" and CR stands for "credit record". Finally, some believe the DR notation is short for "debtor" and CR is short for "creditor".
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B stands for Beatrice. If u r talking about Jessica Beatrice Macgill Fletcher the famous writer.
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Throughout the world soon after the "transmitter" was first invented, there was a need to identify radio stations by letters (or as you say "initials").  For example, I happened to be licensed by the FCC (USA) as "WA2BLM".  The various licensing authorities devised a "call sign" "scheme" so that in case there was some sort of interference between this particular transmitter and a receiver, they could readily identify the particular transmitter.  Today, call signs are groups by what you call "initials" based upon country located and certain combinations of letters and numbers to signify the type of radio station (e.g. tv/radio versus public safety such as police, amateur radio a/k/a HAM Radio) etc.
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The X represents the Greek letter Chi, which looks like an X.  The New Testament was written in Greek and Chi is the first letter in the name Christ.\n\nThe -mas comes from the word "mass" for the Roman Catholic religious service.\n\nSo, Christmas referred to the Christ Mass that was said that day.
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It stands either for Senatus Populsque Romae or Senatus Populusque Romanus, which mean "The Senate and People of Rome" and "The Senate and Roman People" respectively. The Romans themselves seem to have been a bit unsure about which it was.
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& is an ampersand.\n\nAn ampersand (&, &, &), also commonly called an and sign, is a logogram representing the conjunction "and." The symbol is a ligature of the letters in et, which is Latin for "and." Its origin is apparent in the second example in the image to the right; the first example, now more common, is a later development.\n\nThe ampersand often appeared as a letter at the end of the Latin alphabet, as for example in Byrhtferð's list of letters from 1011. It is thought that teaching & as the last letter of the alphabet (... X Y Z and &), a common practice through the 19th century, led to its name, a corruption of the phrase "and per se and", meaning "and [the symbol which] by itself [is] and". The Scots and Scottish English name for & is epershand, derived from "et per se and" with the same meaning. \n\nThe ampersand symbol has been found on ancient Roman sources dating to the first century A.D. During this period the symbol was a boxy-looking ligature of the capital letters E T. Over time the figure became more curved and flowing, until it came to resemble something like the figure above on the right, often called the "italic" ampersand.\n\nBy the eighth century AD, Western calligraphy was well developed, particularly in forms such as Uncial, Insular script, and Carolingian minuscule. The calligraphers made extensive use of the ampersand because the condensation of a word into a single character made their work easier. During this time the even more condensed ampersand, shown above on the left, was developed. It is often called the "roman" ampersand.\n\nAfter the advent of printing in Europe in 1455, printers made extensive use of both the italic and roman ampersands. Every new typeface and font has included its own style of &. Since the ampersand's roots go back to Roman times, many languages that use a variation of the Latin alphabet make use of it.\n\nHistorically, & was regarded as the 27th letter of the English alphabet. Until recent times the alphabets used by children terminated not with Z but with & or related typographic symbols. George Eliot refers to this when she has Jacob Storey say, "He thought it (Z) had only been put to finish off th' alphabet like; though ampusand would ha' done as well, for what he could see."\n\nThe most likely reason why & was regarded as the 27th letter of the English alphabet is - and like many accounts about the history of punctuation this may be apocryphal - the traditional children's nursery rhyme for learning the alphabet with verbal past tenses (instead of the usual nouns as in "A is for apple, etc") called "A - apple pie". This traditional rhyme reads "A - apple pie. B bit it, C cut it, D dealt it, etc. Of course, when you get to the end of the alphabet it becomes rather difficult to finish, so the standard version said "X, Y, Z and per se and, each had a little piece in their hand". The & sign was added to round off the rhyme (not unlike the lines "Now I know my ABC, next time won't you sing with me?" in the most popular contemporary alphabet song) and the common slurring of the end of the rhyme when spoken quickly or when recited by unlearned people gave rise to the folk usage "ampersand".
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Bachelor of Arts,  A.B. is same as B.A.  (BA is more common designation from American Universities, AB is more common designation from European Universites)