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A subsequent influential and humorous, and polemical, essay by Geoffrey K. Pullum repeated Martin's critique, calling the process by which the so-called "myth" was created the "Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax". Pullum argued that the fact that the number of word roots for snow is about equally large in Eskimoan languages and English indicates that ...
A collection of alternate history essays. 1935 It Can't Happen Here: Sinclair Lewis While Hitler is coming to power in Europe, a fascist candidate becomes President of the USA taking complete control as a dictator. 1939 Lest Darkness Fall: L. Sprague de Camp: An American archaeologist is transported to 6th century Rome (AD 535).
A world map in 1945. According to William T. R. Fox, the United States (blue), the Soviet Union (red), and the British Empire were superpowers. Prime Minister Winston Churchill, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and General Secretary Joseph Stalin, meeting at the Yalta Conference in Crimea in February 1945, near the end of World War II
10 Ideas For Leading A Simpler, More Fulfilling Life. Wilder Shaw. July 27, 2023 at 3:00 PM ... Life is fast-paced and tough, and any time spent improving your quality of life is time well-spent.
Storyworth is a subscription service that prompts users to answer a question about their life, their beliefs, or their values, all of which get recorded and printed at the end of the year.
While the Chinese were trying to bring the Xiongnu under control, something of high significance happened: cross-cultural encounters. A large variety of people (such as traders, ambassadors, hostages, parents in cross-cultural marriages, etc.) served as helpers that passed on ideas, values, and techniques across cultural boundary lines.
"Hopefully, we can continue to get in people's living rooms and entertain them the way we have over the last seven years," he says of the future of the Dutton universe
A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.