Don’t Back Off on Your Handling of French Words
A Washington Star writer urges steady pronunciation of familiar French terms in English usage. Explanations cover ensemble chaise longue longue chauffer table dote and guidance to give all French syllables equal accent in speech.
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Learn the Great Insect Orders for Easy Classification
The article explains that while identifying every insect is beyond even the wisest entomologist, one can learn the major groups or orders in a few days. It lists Coleoptera, Lepidoptera, Hymenoptera, Diptera, Hemiptera, Orthoptera, Odonata, Mallophaga, Anoplura, and Neuroptera, noting 99 percent of encountered insects fit these orders.
Great Sphinx of Gizeh and Its Origins
The article discusses the unknown builders of the Sphinxes, notes the Great Sphinx near the pyramids as a guardian, and cites 1816 inscriptions claiming Fourth Dynasty origins around 8750 BC. It explains sphinxes as artistic conceptions linked to Ra and that faces were modeled on pharaohs, with smaller sphinxes found in Assyria, Babylonia, and Phoenicia.
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Danube River Lengthy and Historic in Europe
The Danube is Europe’s second longest river, rising from Brigach and Brege streams in Baden at 2264 feet. By Vienna it sits at 500 feet, running 1740 miles through six nations with about 400 tributaries and 100 navigable, forming borders between Germany Austria Hungary Yugoslavia Bulgaria and Romania. The river’s basin covers roughly 315000 square miles.
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What If the Sun Dimmed Forever in Eight Minutes
A speculative piece explains the chain of events if the sun suddenly vanished. Light would take eight minutes to disappear, plunging Earth into darkness. Tidal oceans would freeze, air would liquefy then solidify, and life would rapidly perish within days, leaving humanity and flora to perish.
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