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Mon, 18 Mar 2024 05:00:00 GMT
UK Recognizes British Sign Language as Official Language (2003)
Mon, 18 Mar 2024 05:00:00 GMT
Making use of space and involving movement of the hands, body, face, and head, British Sign Language (BSL) is the preferred language of deaf people in the UK and those who communicate with them, such as relatives and interpreters. BSL has regional and local dialects, and some signs go in and out of fashion or evolve over time, just like spoken words. Although English is the predominant spoken language in both the UK and US, BSL differs from American Sign Language in what ways? Discuss
Synthesis of Californium Announced (1950)
Sun, 17 Mar 2024 05:00:00 GMT
The sixth transuranium element to be synthesized, californium is an artificially produced, radioactive metallic chemical element. A member of the actinide series of elements, it has isotopes with half-lives ranging from about 40 seconds to 900 years. One isotope, californium-252, is used as a neutron source in nuclear reactors. Which four scientists first produced californium in a cyclotron at the University of California at Berkeley?
My Lai Massacre (1968)
Sat, 16 Mar 2024 05:00:00 GMT
During the Vietnam War, US troops searching for Viet Cong fighters massacred hundreds of civilians from the Vietnamese hamlet of My Lai. Though they had not located any insurgents in My Lai, the soldiers opened fire on the villagers, killing men, women, and children. The incident was initially covered up by army officers. When it was revealed in the press nearly two years later, it divided the US public and increased pressure to end the war. How many soldiers were convicted for their crimes?
Word Trivia
Mon, 18 Mar 2024 05:00:00 GMT
utter
Mon, 18 Mar 2024 05:00:00 GMT
arrant - Means "complete, utter," as in arrant knave, "an extremely untrustworthy individual." More...
explore - Comes from Latin, meaning "search out," from ex-, "out," and plorare, "utter a cry." More...
whicker - To utter a half-suppressed laugh. More...
yodel - From Bavarian jodln, "to utter the syllable jo (yo)." More...
row
Sun, 17 Mar 2024 05:00:00 GMT
windbreak - A row of trees acting as a fence. More...
acrostic - From Greek akron, "end," and stikhos, "row, line of verse." More...
queue - Has the forms queued and queuing or queueing; queueing has five vowels in a row. More...
row - The verb comes from Germanic ro-, "steer," and row, "orderly line," which is from Germanic raigwa. More...
inhabitant
Sat, 16 Mar 2024 05:00:00 GMT
infernal - An inhabitant of the underworld can be called an infernal. More...
sherpa - Literally means "inhabitant of an eastern country." More...
aborigine - From Classical Latin meaning "ancestors," it was spelled with a capital A as the name of the primeval Romans; the first people called aborigines were the original inhabitants of Italy and Greece and aborigine was specifically applied to the inhabitants of a country ab origine, "from the beginning." More...
sylvans - Natives or inhabitants of forests or woods. More...
Today's Birthdays
Mon, 18 Mar 2024 05:00:00 GMT
Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll (1848)
Mon, 18 Mar 2024 05:00:00 GMT
In 1840, Queen Victoria married her first cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, and the two had nine children, whose marriages, and those of their grandchildren, in turn, allied the British royal house with those of Russia, Germany, Greece, Denmark, Romania, and others. Their sixth child, Princess Louise, is regarded by biographers as the couple's most beautiful daughter. In 1871, Louise married the Marquess of Lorne and became the Duchess of Argyll. Why was the marriage controversial? Discuss
John Wayne Gacy (1942)
Sun, 17 Mar 2024 05:00:00 GMT
Gacy was an American serial killer who was convicted and later executed for murdering 33 boys and young men between 1972 and 1978. Gacy buried dozens of his victims in a crawl space under the floor of his house and threw several others in a nearby river. Known as the "Killer Clown," he often performed as a clown at local parties and even had drinks at a local bar while in costume on a few occasions. Gacy took up painting while on death row. What motif appeared in many of his art works?
Luis Ernesto Miramontes Cárdenas (1925)
Sat, 16 Mar 2024 05:00:00 GMT
Miramontes was a Mexican chemist whose extensive scientific contributions include numerous publications and nearly 40 national and international patents in different areas, including organic chemistry, pharmaceutical chemistry, petrochemistry, atmospheric chemistry, and polluting agents. However, Miramontes is best remembered for his synthesis, in 1951, of norethindrone, a progestational hormone that would be used as the base of one of the first forms of what?
Article of the Day
Mon, 18 Mar 2024 05:00:00 GMT
The Aramaic Language
Mon, 18 Mar 2024 05:00:00 GMT
During the 12th century BCE, Aramaean nomads, the native speakers of Aramaic, began to settle in modern-day Syria, Iraq, and Turkey. As Aramaic grew in importance, it spread throughout the Fertile Crescent as a lingua franca, or common language, and settlers and missionaries later brought the Semitic language to parts of N Africa, Europe, Persia, India, and China. What 2004 film became a major box-office success despite the fact that most of its dialogue is spoken in ancient Aramaic? Discuss
Destroying Angels
Sun, 17 Mar 2024 05:00:00 GMT
Originally reserved as a delicacy for the elite, edible mushrooms are now extensively grown on a commercial scale. There are, however, many poisonous species of mushroom, and the destroying angels of the Amanita genus are among the most toxic mushrooms known to man. Destroying angels are characterized by their white stalks and gills and have a telltale collar-like structure, or volva, at the base of their stalks. How soon after ingesting the toxic mushroom do symptoms of poisoning appear?
Prokaryota: The First Living Cells
Sat, 16 Mar 2024 05:00:00 GMT
It is generally accepted that the first living cells on Earth were some form of prokaryote. In biology, a prokaryote is generally a single-celled organism that lacks membrane-bound organelles such as a nucleus, mitochondria, and chloroplasts. Genetic material is instead organized into a ring-like structure called a nucleoid. Most prokaryotes are bacteria, and the two terms are often treated as synonyms. What are the four basic shapes of prokaryotic cells?
Quotations of the Day
Mon, 18 Mar 2024 05:00:00 GMT
Gustave Flaubert
Mon, 18 Mar 2024 05:00:00 GMT
Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom. Discuss
Henry Fielding
Sun, 17 Mar 2024 05:00:00 GMT
He died...of a broken heart, a distemper which kills many more than is generally imagined.
W. Somerset Maugham
Sat, 16 Mar 2024 05:00:00 GMT
The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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