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STORM CENTER: Douty’s philanthropy lives on in Pipestone
Pipestone County Star· 12 hours agoOxford’s english dictionary defines philanthropy as “the desire to promote the welfare of others.” No one lived that more than the late Joe Douty, who died ...
25 FUNNIEST reactions to Trump being too dumb to know what 'ambidextrous' means
Pride via Yahoo News· 7 days agoSomeone needs to buy this guy a dictionary! Trump says he’s able to focus on his campaign and his...
The Supreme Court Saves the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
The New Republic via Yahoo Finance· 13 hours agoThat originalist argument persuaded Thomas and most of his colleagues. He reviewed the English...
A new campaign wants to redefine the word 'nature' to include humans—here's why this linguistic...
Phys.org· 4 days agoNow a new campaign, We Are Nature, aims to persuade dictionaries to include humans in their definitions of nature. This campaign, a collaboration between a group of lawyers and a design company ...
2:00PM Water Cooler 5/10/2024 | naked capitalism
Naked Capitalism· 7 days ago~ Today's Water Cooler: Politics, pandemics: (1) New swing state polling, Hillary Clinton on the ignorance of youth, Trump will love jail, potential nasal spray, and you'll never guess from whom. ~
Author Rita Mae Brown on Her Latest Novel 'Femme Fatale'
Parade· 3 days agoIconic author Rita Mae Brown shares some of her favorite books, including the baby blue cover that...
It's more important to stop the fighting than whether to call wars genocide | Opinion
Cincinnati.com | The Enquirer via Yahoo News· 4 days agoObviously, as a mere word, genocide is a composite of "geno" and "cide" which roughly can be traced...
Are These Foods Actually from Where Their Name Says?
MediaFeed via AOL· 6 days agoIn Germany, they are referred to as “weinerwurst” or “wieners,” the term for residents of Vienna. The first entry in the Oxford English Dictionary for...
American white pelicans nesting on Utah island for first time in 80 years
KTVX via Yahoo News· 6 days agoAmerican white pelicans have once again returned to a local nesting colony they abandoned last year,...
Surgeon who fled communist China, changed lives of blind orphans is the subject of inspiring new...
Fox News· 5 days agoA new film out Memorial Day weekend tells the inspiring real-life story of how a poor Chinese...