City Name Changes
New Amsterdam used to be the name of this American Metropolis, now referred to as "The City That Never Sleeps" or "The Big Apple".
NYC
A group of lions
Pride
This light shade of red was originally the name of a flower, and is associated with similarly delicate, sometimes "girly" things.
Pink
This Energetic dance is from either Cuba or Puerto Rico, also the name for sauce in spanish
Salsa
This club was headed by Sra. Courchaine but was dissolved because we all had such complicated schedules that it didn't work.
International Club
Istanbul, Turkiye went by this name for 1600 years before 1930 and the fall of the Ottoman Empire, named for the roman general Constantine who conquered it in 330 CE.
The skin of a mammal
Hide
Although extremely common in nature, this dim color, technically a shade of yellow, is not included the rainbow.
Brown
This dramatic, passionate dance from Argentina is also the phonetic alphabet word for "T"
Tango
We used to have a principal that touched kids, what was his name?
Rickard
Saigon, Vietnam was renamed after the Vietnam war to honor this first president of Vietnam, affectionately called "Uncle Ho" by the people for his opposition to French rule.
Ho Chi Minh or Ho Chi Minh City
To show the way
Guide
This crude red tint is usually associated with either bloody flesh or deep passion and has a similarly passionate sounding name.
Crimson
This march-like Dominican dance is a core part of national identity, usually featuring accordion and saxophone music. It is a cognate for a whipped egg white dessert in English.
Merengue
This man was a ginger physics teacher that was awesome but he hit some of his students if it was funny
Alec Johnson
Bombay, India was renamed to this in 1995, named for the god Mumbadevi and to eliminate colonial era legacies still attached to India
Mumbai
Decide
This green-blue shade is indirectly named after Turkey because stones used in the blue mosque were called "Pierre tourques" meaning Turkish stone.
Turquoise
This dance is from Spain, featuring rhythmic footwork. It includes flared and ruffled dresses of various bright colors.
Flamenco
This man eats babies and hates happiness
Kicklighter
In 1914, this Russian city was renamed to Petrograd because its old name was deemed "too German". In 1924 it was briefly renamed to Leningrad after Lenin's death, finally returning to its religious name in 1991.
St. Petersburg
To tell a secret to a trusted person
Confide
This deep blue-purple hybrid was included on the rainbow by Isaac Newton, but has fallen out of fashion in recent years. Its name literally means "Indian dye"
Indigo
This Dominican dance is incredibly structured, with a four-beat eight-step movement, usually having smaller but more pointed movements of the hips and hands.
Bachata
Our prinicipal just announced this "next step" in her career
SHES LEAVING !!!!