○○○ miller ⪢⪢
And although my eyes were open. They might have just as well
been closed.
And so it was that later. As the _____ told his tale.
That her face, at first just ghostly. Turned a whiter shade of pale. #song #lyrics
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=7002
○○○ Ben Zimmer ⪢⪢
Ben Zimmer writes about language for the Wall Street Journal. He says, "There has
been a lot of debate recently about something that has
been in our language for centuries."
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=9414
○○○ erosion ⪢⪢
The reason we don't see the asteroid impacts on earth the same way we see the craters on the moon is because on earth those craters have
been wiped away by the action of weather and erosion and weathering and the movement of tectonic plates.
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=10140
○○○ Tuesday ⪢⪢
Tuesday is Mars day. But the Anglo-saxons had their own sky god of war named Tiw or Tyr in Norse Mythology known as the one-handed war god (due to his hand having
been bitten off by a wolf). #front #Greece
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=10356
○○○ charge ⪢⪢
A British-Australian man imprisoned in Iran on spying charges has
been released, reportedly in exchange for three Iranians jailed in other countries.
2020-11-27
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=11791
○○○ bestow ⪢⪢
Since we've
been able to look up at the Sun, we've
been aware of light. As darkness is one of very few things that we instinctually fear, we have always bestowed light with godlike properties.
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=15278
○○○ Erik ⪢⪢
The voice belonged not to an angel but to Erik, a strange musical genius who had forever
been living in opera and was also called the phantom of the opera by the opera patrons.
→ patron
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=20771
○○○ bedrock ⪢⪢
Finally and most importantly, mountains have deformed bedrock, meaning the layers of rock beneath the surface have
been folded, faulted and tilted by the movement of Earth's crust.
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=16113
○○○ Yunnan ⪢⪢
The herd of 14 has
been roaming around China's Yunnan province. They are a different group from that famous herd of elephants who've
been traveling across China for the past several months.
2021-07-17
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=16160
○○○ cryogenic ⪢⪢
_____ engines are the most prestigious rocket engine technology. Due to their design and operational complexity, only a few countries have actually
been able to develop this intriguing engine. #bookmark
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=17953
○○○ each ⪢⪢
In this example, we're asked to estimate the number of degrees each of the shaded figures has
been rotated and state the direction of the rotation.
#math
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=20619
• Present Perfect
Scientists say they have found evidence of a giant planet in the solar system. There have only
been two true planets discovered since ancient times. Planets have
been predicted before and then were not found.
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=4149
• Nataruk fossils
Scientist Lahr said the findings raised the question of whether warfare has
been part of human experience much longer than previously thought.
→ Marta Mirazon Lahr, Anna Metteo, club, Turkana
#listening
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=3327
• Planet Nine
○ The scientists are with the California Institute of Technology or Caltech.
○ Pluto had
been considered the ninth planet until 2006 when it was renamed a dwarf planet.
○ Anna Matteo, Konstantin Batygan, Mike Brown, Robert Massey
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=3289