The Rudiments of English Grammar (1761) was a popular English grammar textbook written the 18th-century British polymath Joseph Priestley. While a minister for a congregation in Nantwich, Cheshire, Priestley established a local school; it was his first successful educational venture. Believing that all students should have a good grasp of the English language and its grammar before learning any other language, and dismayed at the quality of the instruction manuals available, Priestley wrote his own textbook: The Rudiments of English Grammar (1761). The book was very successful—it was re...

English as She Is Spoke is the common name of a 19th-century book written by Pedro Carolino, and falsely additionally credited to José da Fonseca, which was intended as a Portuguese-English conversational guide or phrase book, but is regarded as a classic source of unintentional humour, as the given English translations are generally completely incoherent. The humour appears to be a result of dictionary-aided literal translation, which causes many idiomatic expressions to be translated wildly inappropriately. For example, the Portuguese phrase chover a cântaros is translated as raining ...

Pico- (symbol p) is a prefix in the metric system denoting a factor of 10−12 or . Derived from the Spanish pico, meaning peak, beak, bit, this was one of the original 12 prefixes defined in 1960 when the International System of Units was established. The radius of atoms range from ~25 picometers (hydrogen) - 260 picometers (caesium). References

The term francs-tireurs (, French for "free shooters") was used to describe irregular military formations deployed by France during the early stages of the Franco-Prussian War (1870–71). The term was revived and used by partisans to name two major French Resistance movements set up to fight against the Germans during World War II. It is sometimes used to refer more generally to guerrilla fighters who operate outside the laws of war. Background During the wars of the French Revolution, a franc-tireur was a member of a corps of light infantry organized separately from the regular army. T...