Rhyme schemes help usrelate different parts of the poem. Poets can use the rhyming words for lines across stanzas to tie ideas between them; or to reinforce those ideas each time by use of the rhyme scheme. And refrains kind of do double duty with these concepts. Again, conversely, like ...
The reason I get nervous when I don’t see really concrete information is that I just removed a father for George Sr. The 1st Earl of Elgin, Thomas Bruce, was attached to his profile earlier this year (2024). Earls have pretty good family trees and lots of records, and Thomas Bruce h...
The reason I get nervous when I don’t see really concrete information is that I just removed a father for George Sr. The 1st Earl of Elgin, Thomas Bruce, was attached to his profile earlier this year (2024). Earls have pretty good family trees and lots of records, and Thomas Bruce h...
Unless we see some really surprising data, either crazy strong implying the Fed is going to stop easing, or crazy weak implying we are in a recession, I see no reason for this process to end heading into the new year and President Trump’s inauguration. Again, in that scenario, I think...
The syllables ká, fí, bí, sá, rú are long for the same reason why the syllables mul, waj, kal are so, that is, because the accent in the transliteration corresponds to a quiescent Arabic letter, following a moved one. The same simple criterion applies to the whole list, in which...
I'd be willing to bet that most Americans have no clue what the Johnson-Reed Act was. Passed in 1924, and in 1929 setting an annual immigration quota of 150,000, the act was a continuation of restrictive immigration laws that were enacted before 1900. As