ODDS AND ENDS

1. DEXTER is Latin for right, implying skill, power, and luck. SINISTER is Latin for left, implying clumsiness and misfortune. Ambidexterous means skillful with both hands - or right handed on both sides. By extension, sinister has come to mean threatening or ominous, but dexterous still only refers to physical dexterity.

2. CURFEW comes the French - meaning "cover the fire".

3. KARAOKE comes from the Japanese - meaning "empty orchestra".

4. SHEILA is slang for a girl or woman in Australia.

5. PLANET is the Greek word for "wandering star."

6. ZDRAVSTVUYTE means "hello" in Russian. 

7. What is unusual about this sentence? 

    HOW I WISH I COULD CALCULATE PI.

Answer #7:

The number of letters in each word correspond to the first seven digits of Pi:

3.141592