Devils Tower (Lakota: Matȟó Thípila or Ptehé Ǧí, which means “Bear Lodge” and ”brown buffalo horn”, respectively) is an igneous intrusion or laccolith located in the Black Hills near Hulett and Sundance in Crook County, northeastern Wyoming, above the Belle Fourche River. It rises dramatically above the surrounding terrain and the summit is above sea level.
Devils Tower was the first declared United States National Monument, established on September 24, 1906, by President Theodore Roosevelt. The Monument's boundary encloses an area of .
In recent years, about 1% of the Monument's 400,...
As far as I know 'dude' is a slang used to address a male, preferably a friend.
But I came across few of the source on internet which pass an information "A 'Dude' is an infected hair on an elephants butt" (pardon me for nuisance if you felt) ..
I believe its wrong! I couldn't find this absurd ...
On this one, etymonline really let me down. It says:
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1883, "fastidious man," New York City slang of unknown origin. The vogue word of 1883, originally used in reference to the devotees of the "aesthetic" craze, later applied to city slickers, especially Easterners vacationing in the W...
Mount Athos (; , ) is a mountain and peninsula in Macedonia, Greece. A World Heritage Site and self-governed state in the Hellenic Republic, Athos is home to 20 stavropegial Eastern Orthodox monasteries under the direct jurisdiction of the patriarch of Constantinople. Today Greeks commonly refer to Mount Athos as the "Holy Mountain" (). In Classical times, the peninsula was called Akté (Ακτή) (sometimes Acte or Akte).
The peninsula, the easternmost "leg" of the larger Halkidiki peninsula, protrudes into the Aegean Sea at a width of between and covers an area of . The actual Mount...
The Club Dumas (original Spanish title El Club Dumas) is a 1993 novel by Arturo Pérez-Reverte. The book is set in a world of antiquarian booksellers echoing his previous work, The Flanders Panel.
The story follows the adventures of a book dealer, Lucas Corso, who is hired to authenticate a rare manuscript by Alexandre Dumas, père. Corso's investigation leads him to seek out two copies of a rare book known as De Umbrarum Regni Novem Portis (The Book of the Nine Doors of the Kingdom of Shadows). Corso encounters a host of intriguing characters on his journey of investigation, including de...
"A Big Piece of Garbage" is episode eight in season one of Futurama. It originally aired in North America on May 11, 1999. The episode was written by Lewis Morton and directed by Susie Dietter. Ron Popeil guest stars in this episode as himself. Nancy Cartwright also has a brief cameo as a Bart Simpson doll. Much of the episode is a spoof of Armageddon; however, instead of Earth being threatened by an asteroid, it is threatened by a giant ball of garbage.
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Professor Farnsworth invites the crew of Planet Express to join him at the Academy of Inventors' annual symposium, where inventors ...
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Why doesn't “its” have an apostrophe?
Is there any generic guide available for the correct usage of apostrophes, especially to differentiate between possessiveness and plurality, and specifically "its" vs "it's".
(ESL if it matters)
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