Area 51, also known as Groom Lake, is an isolated site that is said to be a place where a UFO cover-up by the U. S. government is happening. It is a 6×10 mile block of land located at about 90 miles north of Las Vegas, Nevada. Inside this top secret military base, various towers, vast runways and buildings are …
Read More »What is anti-dumping duty?
If any company exports a product at a price lower than what it normally charges in its home market, then it is dumping the product. Opinions differ as to whether or not this is unfair competition, but many countries take action against dumping by imposing anti-dumping duty. Thus, anti-dumping duty is an extra import duty on a particular product from …
Read More »What is anthropophagy?
Anthropophagy means cannibalism – the practice of human beings eating other human beings. The word is a combination of Greek words: anthropos meaning human being, and phagein meaning to eat. Cannibalism might involve eating other humans after killing them intentionally or eating body parts of those whose death has occurred due to other causes. The practice of eating humans of …
Read More »What is an omnibus bill?
Although omnibus bills have become an increasingly popular way to pass legislation in the US Congress, critics say the bills contain numerous government measures that receive little debate. An omnibus bill, from the Latin “omnibus” meaning “for everything,” is a single document that is accepted in a single vote by a legislature but packs together diverse subjects into a single …
Read More »What is an ISBN number?
There are hundreds of thousands of publishers across the world, and millions of books get printed every year. Moreover, a book like The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a book that has been printed by several publishers. This makes the task of identifying a book very difficult. To overcome the problem of identifying books, publishers have came up with a …
Read More »What is an integrated city?
An integrated city is developed as a whole, by examining the existing city and identifying areas which have been neglected. ‘Civic software’ is still new and can be utilised to work out problems. Those who advocate this concept aim for at a ‘do-it-yourself ’ city which does not need government departments and funds. They look at integrating the city with …
Read More »What is an erratic?
In many parts of the world, you can find large boulders, called erratics, which rest on rocks of a different kind. How did they get there? One idea popular in the early 19th century was that they had been rolled there by strong currents during Noah’s Flood! In the 1830s, a Swiss professor, Louis Agassiz, studied the glaciers, which move …
Read More »Fancy Being Frightened of Me!
∼ Porter G., Hilda Offen, Pradera, Esme Eve, Alan Jesset, Richard Hooke
Read More »Everything I Do, I Do It For You – Bryan Adams
“(Everything I Do) I Do It for You” is a power ballad performed by Bryan Adams and co-written with Michael Kamen and Robert John “Mutt” Lange, featured on the soundtrack album from the film Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and on Adams’ album Waking Up the Neighbours. It was an enormous chart success internationally, sixteen consecutive weeks at number one …
Read More »Eight Tentacles – Julia Donaldson
∼ Julia Donaldson
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