The longest word in the English
language featuring alternating consonants and vowels,
honorificabilitudinitatibus appears only once in Shakespeare's works—in
Love's Labour's Lost (1598). Its use has been cited by Baconists as
evidence that Francis Bacon was the real author of Shakespeare's plays. They see
in it an anagram for hi ludi, F. Baconis nati, tuiti orbi, meaning "these
plays, F. Bacon's offspring, are preserved for the world." What does the
original word mean?More...
The Old Man of the Mountain was
an iconic rock formation in the Franconia Notch mountain pass of New Hampshire.
Protruding from the side of a cliff, about 1,200 feet (366 m) above a lake, it
looked like a craggy, 40-ft (12-m) human face. Years of freezing weather and the
feature's already precarious position caused the beloved local symbol and
tourist destination to collapse in 2003. American statesman Daniel Webster once
said that the Old Man was God's way of saying what?More...
Inge worked as a teacher and newspaper critic
before winning recognition as a dramatist. His plays sympathetically portray the
aspirations and frustrations of Midwestern small-town life. He first earned
notice in 1950 with Come Back, Little Sheba, and he won the Pulitzer
Prize in 1953 for Picnic. Several of his works were made into films. By
the 1960s, his reputation as a dramatist declined, and he turned to writing
novels. Plagued by alcoholism and illness, he died in what way?More...
Humans have been using wind power for
millennia, and in the past several decades, as part of an effort to reduce greenhouse
gas emissions linked to global warming, there has been a surge in the number
of power-producing wind farms.
However, this so-called clean energy
source may also have unintended weather effects. Measurements of ground
temperatures around wind farms show that nighttime temperatures on the ground
have increased, likely because the turbines' blades pull down warmer air as they spin. Over about a decade, the nighttime air
around the wind farms became about 1.3° F (0.72° C) warmer, compared with the
surrounding area. More on the subject...
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