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The phrase "Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad" first appears in English in exactly this form in the Reverend William Anderson Scott 's book Daniel, a Model for Young Men (1854) and is attributed to a "heathen proverb." The phrase later appears in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 's poem "The Masque of Pandora" (1875) and other places.
Image credits: Cosimia1964 #2. My mom was dying. A friend told me "you have your whole life to freak out about this-- *don't do it in front of her.* "It really helped me to understand that my ...
An influx of social media users around the world have reported the site being down and having log-in issues, according to Downdetector. Reports of the issue started rolling in around 8 a.m. CT and ...
To kill someone Literary: Go/send to Belize To die/to kill somebody Euphemism From Season 5 of the television series Breaking Bad: Send (or go) to the farm To die Euphemism Usually referring to the death of a pet, especially if the owners are parents of young children e.g. "The dog was sent to a farm." Sewerslide To commit suicide Humorous
Emma (Petra) Fagley. William Hughes Mearns (1875–1965), better known as Hughes Mearns, was an American educator and poet. A graduate of Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania, Mearns was a professor at the Philadelphia School of Pedagogy from 1905 to 1920. Mearns is remembered now as the author of the poem "Antigonish" (or "The ...
Facebook's outage reports reached 183,731 as of 10:42 a.m., according to Downdetector. Seventy-five percent of users reported issues with log-in, 17% reported issues with the app and 8% reported ...
"Boots" is a poem by English author and poet Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936). It was first published in 1903, in his collection The Five Nations. [1]"Boots" imagines the repetitive thoughts of a British Army infantryman marching by forced marches in South Africa during the Second Boer War (which had ended in 1902).
According to the most recent figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there are now more than twice as many suicides in the U.S. (45,000) as homicides; they are the 10th leading cause of death. You have to go all the way back to the dawn of the Great Depression to find a similar increase in the suicide rate.