Cursive script (traditional Chinese: 草書; simplified Chinese: 草书; pinyin: cǎoshū; Japanese: 草書体, sōshotai; Korean: 초서, choseo; Vietnamese: thảo thư), often mistranslated as grass script, is a script style used in Chinese and East Asian calligraphy. It is an umbrella term for the cursive variants of the clerical script and the regular script.The cursive script functions primarily as a kind of shorthand script or calligraphic style; it is faster to write than other styles, but can be difficult to read for those unfamiliar with it due to its abstraction and alteration of character structures. People...

Sir John Bertrand Gurdon (born 2 October 1933) is a British developmental biologist. He is best known for his pioneering research in nuclear transplantation and cloning. He was awarded the Lasker Award in 2009. In 2012, he and Shinya Yamanaka were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for the discovery that mature cells can be converted to stem cells. == Early days == Gurdon attended Edgeborough and then Eton College, where he ranked last out of the 250 boys in his year group at biology, and was in the bottom set in every other science subject. A schoolmaster wrote a report stating...

Verb: kázat impf (perfective nakázat)

1. to preach
2. to moralize, to lecture

Adjective: darn tootin’

1. (chiefly US, countrified, idiomatic) Absolutely correct; speaking the truth.
2. (chiefly US, countrified, idiomatic) Absolute, utter, complete, very.
3. 2009, Lana Sweeten-Shults, "Look out 2009, here I come," Times Record News (Wichita Falls, Texas), 5 Jan. (retrieved 24 Jan. 2009):
4. I’ve decided that Wii Fit is darn tootin’ fun.

Adverb: darn tootin’

1. (chiefly US, countrified, idiomatic) Assuredly, absolutely, utterly, completely, you bet.
2. 2004, David Brooks, "Values, Values Everywhere," New York Times, 17 Jul. (retrieved 24 Jan. 2009):
3. In speech, in rapid responses, in interviews, Kerry and Edwards remind us these days how darn tootin’ chock full of values they really are.

Interjection: darn tootin’

1. (chiefly US, countrified, idiomatic) You are absolutely correct.
2. "Darn tootin’."

Seder-Masochism is a 2018 American animated musical biblical comedy-drama film written, directed, produced and animated by American artist Nina Paley. The film reinterprets the Book of Exodus, especially stories associated with the Passover Seder, such as the death of the Egyptian first-born, and Moses leading the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt. The film depicts these events against a backdrop of widespread worship of the Great Mother Goddess, showing the rise of patriarchy. Seder-Masochism is Paley's second feature film, following Sita Sings the Blues in 2008, an animated film loosely based...

This is an incomplete list of documented attempts to assassinate Adolf Hitler.All attempts occurred in the German Reich, except where noted. All attempts involved citizens of the German Reich, except where noted. No fewer than 42 plots have been uncovered by historians. However, the true number cannot be accurately determined due to an unknown number of undocumented cases. == See also == Operation Foxley Operation Spark (1940) Operation Valkyrie == References == == Further reading == Moorhouse, Roger (2006). Killing Hitler: The Plots, the Assassins, and the Dictator Who Cheated Death. New York...