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Robert William Shields (May 17, 1918 – October 15, 2007) was an American minister and high school English teacher best known for writing a diary of 37.5 million words, which chronicled every five minutes of his life from 1972 until a stroke disabled him in 1997.
18 million: 70 years: 1859–1890: Witt (1799–1892) was born in Germany, lived in Peru, and wrote in English. [9] Arthur Crew Inman: 17 million: 44 years: 1919–1963: 155 volumes. [10] Other accounts state 10 million words. [11] Nella Last: 12 million [12] 28 years: 1939–1967: Participant in Mass Observation project. Dr. John Henry Salter ...
The term 30-million-word gap (often shortened to just word gap) was originally coined by Betty Hart and Todd R. Risley in their book Meaningful Differences in the Everyday Experience of Young American Children, [1] and subsequently reprinted in the article "The Early Catastrophe: The 30 Million Word Gap by Age 3". [2]
The 1,000th Wordle puzzle ran in March, a milestone for the popular game where players tend to stick to a formula, with 2.8 million people using the same starting word every day as proof.
For example, if s=2, then ๐(s) is the well-known series 1 + 1/4 + 1/9 + 1/16 + …, which strangely adds up to exactly ๐²/6. When s is a complex number—one that looks like a+b๐, using ...
Just 67% of eighth-graders score at or above a basic level. American students’ reading skills are at their lowest level since testing began over 30 years ago
"Gliding Over All" is the eighth episode and mid-season finale of the fifth season of the American television drama series Breaking Bad, and the 54th overall episode of the series. Written by Moira Walley-Beckett and directed by Michelle MacLaren, it aired on AMC in the United States on September
Of the 58 million children out of school: [4] 23% attended school in the past but left; 43% are likely to never enter school; 34% are likely to enter school in the future; Roughly half of all out-of-school children come from just a few countries, many of them characterized by conflict, instability, and extreme poverty.