This contribution tells the stories behind the names of the various “poxes” that have infected humans: the great pox (syphilis), smallpox, chickenpox, cowpox, and monkeypox. These infectious diseases not only share a common “pox” nomenclature, but are also closely interconnected in medical ...
Kids, colors, cows – and bib overalls – are all super-sized at the Minnesota State Fair.To Boldly Go Posted by Debra on Aug 23, 2014 in Blog, Colors, Notables (aka Best Of), Relationships, Shapes and Patterns, State Fair / BeyondTheStick These are the adventures of the Starship…...
Also, over the last three centuries the English language has___46__thousands of new words for things that weren’t___47__before. And often, American and Eng lish people used two__48__names for them. A tin can is called“tin”for short in English, but a “can”in America.The word...
Mary Fox-Davies writing in 1932 for her “Shown to the Children“ series tells us more about the British Museum. She says:“The British Museum is in the big district of Bloomsbury to the north of Holborn. This fine building is so large, and contains so much of interest, that if you w...
Early modern Anglophone writing in Africa is represented by such names s Dennis Brutus, Ezekiel Mphahlele, John Pepper Clark, Alex La Guma, Wole Soyinka, Christopher Okigbo, and others, almost all of whom are still very active on the lit... Yesufu,R Abdul - 《African Book Publishing Record...
“Names, not Moonbeam’ mam, it’s Hillary,” says the barista. “Of course it is, sweetheart; I should have guessed that. I suppose you have a brother named Bill too? “No, mam, just a little sister, Chelsea.” My wife shot me her “get me out of here before someone dies” lo...
He is to be on duty in the hall for Joe’s visit; Herbert suggests things for Joe’s breakfast. Joe arrives and Pip hears him coming up the stairs laboriously in his big boots and stopping at all the doors to spell the names; he wipes his feet a lot before coming in after being ...
When it comes to characters’ names, I try to spell them how the show’s creative team intended. So, from now on, I will spell Goldie’s name with an ‘ie’ in future re-caps. Thinking about the mystery of the coin and Earl Wyatt’s return to Hope Valley, I wonder if Earl’s ...
the crossroads shared with the inn. Both the inn and the burial site adopted names related to these events. The inn became St Annes Castle (and now known just as The Castle), and the location of her burial became known as Scrapfaggots Green, "scrapfaggot" being a corruption of the East...
aPeople don’t use their middle names very much. So “John Henry Brown” is usually called “John Brown”. 人们非常不使用他们的中间名。 如此“John Henry ・布朗”通常告诉“约翰・布朗”。[translate] ainterested with 感兴趣与[translate] ...