◎◎◎ troops ⪢⪢
For comparison, this is nearly the same size as the entire Ukrainian military and about the same number of troops sent by United States when invading Iraq in 2003.
┆soldiers or
armed forces "UN peacekeeping troops"
→ forces
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=20194
◎◎◎ take measures ⪢⪢
China says it will take measures against unnamed US officials following new US visa restrictions for Chinese officials whose policies are linked to human rights abuses.┆a step planned or taken as
a means to an end
"took strong measures against the rebels"
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=12137
◎◎◎ perigee ⪢⪢
Now about half
a month later, the moon has orbited halfway around its path and it gets to its closest point to the earth. We refer to this as perigee.
→ apogee, perihelion
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=9985
○○○ Somewhere beyond the sea, ⪢⪢
somewhere waiting for me, my lover stands on golden sands and watches the ships that go sailing.
Somewhere beyond the sea, she's there watching for me.
If I could fly like birds on high, then, straight to her
arms, I'd go sailing.
#song
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=7018
○○○ James Clerk Maxwell ⪢⪢
Figures like Newton and Huygens worked with light in the 17th century but
a more sophisticated description of light which we call classical electromagnetism was developed largely by James Clerk Maxwell in the 19th century.
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=7097
○○○ flank ⪢⪢
Flanked by officers, Kim strolls slow-mo out of
a military installation like they are Peaky Blinders and Reservoir Dogs.
→ peaky, blinders, plank, frank
#bookmark
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=5637
○○○ ransomware ⪢⪢
The cyber attack was described by experts as ____. Companies, government agencies and hospitals around the world lost control of their computer's data. Affected computers received
a message demanding p
ayment of $300 to regain control of the data.
→ ransom
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=11751
○○○ get-rich-quick ⪢⪢
The only free cheese is in the mousetrap.
Be careful of those offering you a _____ scheme or a system or
a miracle cure because it's most definitely a trap.
You are the mouse and they are holding up the free cheese.
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=9909
○○○ mortal ⪢⪢
Who could have believed that
a mortal father and son had mastered the art of flight? ┆ Who could have believed that
a mortal father and son had mastered the art of flight if anyone had looked up just then?
#conditional ◁→◁
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=10019
○○○ Wednesday ⪢⪢
The reason that _____ is spelled so funny is because it's actually Woden's day. Woden was the big guy of Germanic mythology and the creator of the universe and master of hunting and war while the Roman god Mercury was
a mere messenger to the gods. #Greece
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=10384
○○○ Syria ⪢⪢
In northwestern Syria, several civilians, including children, were killed in
a missile strike on a building housing displaced people from other parts of the country.
2019-12-24
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=12114
○○○ pull ⪢⪢
U.S. President Donald Trump defends a decision to pull U.S. troops from Northern Syria. The Trump
Administration says Turkey will go forward with a planned operation into the area. 2019-10-07
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=12404
○○○ wreckage ⪢⪢
Chinese emergency workers find nine bodies in
a mine that collapsed two weeks ago in Shandong province. On Sunday, China pulled eleven survivors from the wreckage. One person died earlier; another remains missing.
2021-01-25
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=1660
○○○ will ⪢⪢
Johns, hold me in your
arms and say once again you love me. And if your love is true, everything _____ be just as wonderful. You'll hold me in your
arms and say once again...
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=14673
○○○ wonderful ⪢⪢
Someday we shall return to this place upon the meadow.
We'll walk out in the rain.
Hear the birds above singing once again.
You'll hold me in your
arms and say once again you love me.
And if your love is true, everything will be just as _____.
#lyrics
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=14728
○○○ FDA ⪢⪢
News media report that the U.S. food and drug
administration is expected to approve for emergency use Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 12 to 15 by next week.
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=15325
○○○ Wuhan ⪢⪢
According to the Wall Street Journal, an intelligence report said that three employees at this Wuhan lab for studying viruses were hospitalized in November 2019,
a month earlier than the first reported cases of COVID-19.
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=15451
○○○ plateau ⪢⪢
Like
a mountain a plateau tends to have high elevation different though in that it has very little relief it tends to be fairly flat. Most importantly plateaus do not have deformed bedrock rather they have horizontal or flat bedrock layers.
→ prairie
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=16114
○○○ shine on ⪢⪢
Things that look white are reflecting
almost all of the visible light shining on them. Things that look black are absorbing
almost all of the visible light shining on them.
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=16168
○○○ vertebrate ⪢⪢
Snakes are also vertebrates which means that they have a backbone. Actually snakes are
almost ALL backbone! A snake's skeleton is most made of its skull, the vertebrate (or bones of the spine) and ribs.
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=16217
○○○ founder ⪢⪢
A ship off the coast of Japan split in two spilling oil into the ocean. The two halves of the Crimson Polaris could be seen foundering in the water near Japna's
Aomori prefecture.
2021-08-13 #bookmark
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=16458
○○○ DARPA ⪢⪢
Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency, abbreviated DARPA or the Office of Advanced Research Projects of the United States Department of Defence was established in 1958,
almost immediately after the launch of the USSR's Sputnik-1.
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=1057
○○○ Kamila Valieva ⪢⪢
There is
a mystery still swirling around the Russian figure skating team. That is 15 year old phenom _____ who could face disqualification after reportingly testing positive for a banned heart medication.
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=19014
○○○ Bonaparte ⪢⪢
Inside the midnight councils, the lamps are burning low on you sit and talk all through the night but there's just no place to go.
And Bonaparte is coming with his
army from the south.
Marat, your days are numbered and we live hand to mouth. #song #lyric
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=19653
○○○ amass ⪢⪢
And immediately prior to this declaration, the Russian
army had amassed around 200,000 soldiers along with their tanks, artillery, equipment and field hospitals across their border and many others inside of Belarus along their border with Ukraine.
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=20193
○○○ missile ⪢⪢
Video from the state emergency services shows
a missile hitting the regional
administration building in Ukraine's second largest city. The central freedom square and residential areas were also targeted.
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=20224
○○○ 1962.10.25 ⪢⪢
On that same day, the US embassadar to the United Nations, Adlai Stevenson, confronted the Soviets in the UN assembly revealing photographic evidence that forced the Soviet Union to
admit the missile bases existed.
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=20293