This feature makes English fairly adaptable – which is a good thing for a world language – but it causes irregularity in spelling and pronunciation. I: English spelling baffles me, too.P: English also has the largest vocabulary. Often there are words for the same thing, one is Anglo-Saxon...
When did taxes start? A long time ago. Taxes have been around most likely for as long as there have been civilizations. The leaders of early cultures took goods, food, animals or labor from citizens to help pay for community improvements or the personal wealth of a local or regional ruler...
We checked out an administrative building at the top of a long path leading up from a lake that was once connected via river to the Caribbean; the building contained the tax office where those coming to trade stopped to make a payment. We also saw two or three contemporary altars where Ma...
A significant pinch-point was the desire of Padre Martinez to preside at the wedding of a favorite niece at Guadalupe Church where the Padre had been in charge for three decades. Father Taladrid, however, did not permit Padre Martinez to preside at the marriage. As a result, the Padre arr...
So much for the bills and the letters and the taxes and the mortgage… I felt a certain relief it was all closed and I just walked home. Then it washed over me all the silence all the still air and no rustling even of the trees because there are still no leaves.,.. the daffodils...
During the past year, I was searching for another full-time job, other than the one I had, but the extra special time came during the last 3 months where I was officially an unemployed, crap excuse for a human being (yes, it says so on my taxes) and I’m here to tell you that...
Reading would become a do anywhere sort of activity that might actually benefit children who don’t currently read nearly enough. Money would no longer define access to knowledge. This future world has a few problems, of course. The people who put creative talent into materials of all sorts ...
Why, instead, did an Israeli internal investigation, which released its findings just two weeks ago, say that a 2002 missile strike in Gaza that tore apart the small bodies of 8 children asleep in their beds was ‘justified’, and that there was ‘no wrongdoing’ committed by the ...
In a recent operationsupdatethe IRS has confirmed that 98% of regular paper and electronic individual refund returns received for the past tax year have been processed if the return hadno errorsor did not require further review (special handling). ...
But I’d been in Cuenca for just 2 weeks when everything stared shutting down. The city went into lockdown, and national borders started closing. I did move to my April/May Airbnb as planned, but Panama was, like, literally closed and I couldn’t go on. So I had to cancel the ...