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Saturday, June 05, 2004
It's often said that Latin is a dead language Lingua Latina saepe dicitur mortua esse LEEN-gwah lah-TEE-nah SIGH-pay DEE-kih-tuhr MOHR-too-ah EHS-seh Baloney! Nugas! NOO-gahss! Refdesk Thoughts of the Day "The newer people of this modern age..." "The newer people of this modern age are more eager to amass than to realize." - Rabindranath Tagore "The optimist proclaims ..." "The optimist proclaims we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true." - James Branch Cabell "Books are the quietest..." "Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers." - Charles W. Eliot The Refdesk Sites of the Day are: The Alternative Fix Americans are spending billions on alternative medical treatments. And major hospitals and medical schools are embracing them. But do they work? This PBS/Frontline site examines the issue in this companion site to their special 'The Alternative Fix.' CNN/Mayo Clinic Health Library An extensive library of health information with topics ranging from Fitness and Nutrition to Exercise and Weight Control. Voice from the Days of Slavery Voices from the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories provides the opportunity to listen to former slaves describe their lives. These interviews, conducted between 1932 and 1975, capture the recollections of twenty-three identifiable people born between 1823 and the early 1860s and known to have been former slaves. Several of the people interviewed were centenarians, the oldest being 130 at the time of the interview. The almost seven hours of recordings were made in nine Southern states and provide an important glimpse of what life was like for slaves and freedmen. Friday, June 04, 2004
It's often said that Latin is a dead language Lingua Latina saepe dicitur mortua esse LEEN-gwah lah-TEE-nah SIGH-pay DEE-kih-tuhr MOHR-too-ah EHS-seh Refdesk Thoughts of the Day "A living language..." "A living language is like a man suffering incessantly from small haemorrhages, and what it needs above all else is constant transactions of new blood from other tongues. The day the gates go up, that day it begins to die." - H.L. Mencken "Friendship is born..." "Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You, too? Thought I was the only one." - Clive Staples Lewis The Refdesk Sites of the Day are: OneLook Reverse Dictionary OneLook's reverse dictionary lets you describe a concept and get back a list of words and phrases related to that concept. Your description can be a few words, a sentence, a question, or even just a single word. Just type it into the box above and hit the "Find words" button. Keep it short to get the best results. In most cases you'll get back a list of related terms with the best matches shown first. FirstGov FirstGov.gov, the official U.S. gateway to all government information, is the catalyst for a growing electronic government. Our work transcends the traditional boundaries of government and our vision is globalˆconnecting the world to all U.S. government information and services. On FirstGov.gov, you can search more than 186 million web pages from federal and state governments, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories. Most of these pages are not available on commercial websites. FirstGov has the most comprehensive search of government anywhere on the Internet. Someone good at Scrabble (From Pamela, our Bay Ridge correspondent.) Someone out there either has too much spare time or is deadly at Scrabble. (Wait till you see the last one)! GEORGE BUSH: When you rearrange the letters: HE BUGS GORE DORMITORY: When you rearrange the letters: DIRTY ROOM EVANGELIST: When you rearrange the letters: EVIL'S AGENT PRESBYTERIAN: When you rearrange the letters: BEST IN PRAYER DESPERATION: When you rearrange the letters: A ROPE ENDS IT THE MORSE CODE: When you rearrange the letters: HERE COME DOTS SLOT MACHINES: When you rearrange the letters: CASH LOST IN ME ANIMOSITY: When you rearrange the letters: IS NO AMITY MOTHER-IN-LAW: When you rearrange the letters: WOMAN HITLER SNOOZE ALARMS: When you rearrange the letters: ALAS! NO MORE Z'S A DECIMAL POINT: When you rearrange the letters: I'M A DOT IN PLACE THE EARTHQUAKES: When you rearrange the letters: THAT QUEER SHAKE ELEVEN PLUS TWO: When you rearrange the letters: TWELVE PLUS ONE And for the grand finale: PRESIDENT CLINTON OF THE USA: When you rearrange the letters (with no letters left over and using each letter only once): TO COPULATE HE FINDS INTERNS Monday, May 31, 2004
Memorial Day 2004 From Refdesk. Faces of the Fallen This is a collection by the Washington Post of information about each U.S. service member who died in Iraq. |