When someone sneezes, we often use the wordachooto describe the sound. Every time we hear anachoo, we are often compelled to answer with aBless youorGod bless you. But why? Where did the wordachoocome from, and why do we feel the need to bless someone whenever we hear a sneeze? Whe...
Like its neighboring monthsSeptember,November, andDecember, the month of October kept its numerical name, even after Julius Caesar expanded the calendar year from 10 months to 12.Octoberentered Old English via Old French, replacing the English vernacular termWinterfylleð(“Winter full moon”). ...
Section BDirections: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages．At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions．Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once．After you hear...
aJamal Khalifa, his best friend at the university in Jidda and later also his brother-in-law, told me bin Laden was driven not only by a desire to implement what he saw as God's will but also by a fear of divine punishment if he failed to do so. So not defending Islam from what...
Who did Orpheus worship? Orpheus, during the end of his life, worshipped no gods except the sun, whom he called Apollo. One day, he went to pay tribute to the sun near the oracle of Dionysus, where he was caught by the Maenads, and was killed for being an infidel to the god Diony...
Where Did the F-Word Come From? Is media same as press? from yahoo answer: "Press" generally refers toprint media(i.e. off the printing press) like newspapers and magazines. "Media" is a broader term that includes TV, radio, Internet etc. ...
Thomas said, "Lord, we don't even know where you are going! How can we know the way?" English Revised VersionThomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; how know we the way?GOD'S WORD® TranslationThomas said to him, "Lord, we don't know where you're going...
Some FB pals (well one) has expressed a certain level of ignorance about the aforementioned John. I don’t feel inclined to help them out when they can easily google it, which is what I did in the first place. There’s a lot of stuff out there on tinterweb about Johnny boy, as ...
and where be all his wondrous works which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt? but now the LORD hath cast us off, and delivered us into the hand of Midian.GOD'S WORD® TranslationGideon responded, "Excuse me, sir! But if the LORD is with us...
Susan Sontag’s essay ‘The Aesthetics of Silence’ inAgainst Interpretation(1966) is too well known to summarize, but she was one of the first to sound the ‘postmodern’ note, without using that now current but meaningless term. David Lodge’sThe Modes of Modern Writing – Metaphor, Metony...