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Although Dr. Murray and Dr. Minor’s lives and circumstances were quite different, they had one tie which brought them together and cultivated a chance friendship: The Oxford English Dictionary. Their story is an extremely important one, especially when it comes to history,…

"Young lady, that is not proper! Where are your manners?". Why does it matter? I would think after being scolded for having my elbows on the table, not crossing my legs (whether in a skirt or not), or possibly making fart jokes. Does anybody even care, except for my grandmother? What I did not know at the time was that these small chidings were the slow steps of society molding me into their perception of proper. Proper is the complicated, dolled up character society pretends to be to impress…

In the first place, dictionaries with standardized and regulated words will help us maintain “conventions of usage” (Bryson, 1990, p.151). “We must agree to spell cat c-a-t and not e-l-e-p-h-a-n-t, and we must agree that by that word we mean a small furry quadruped that goes meow and sits comfortably on one’s lap and not a large lumbering beast that grows tusks and is exceeding difficult to housebreak” (Bryson, 1990, p.150). We seem to have so many names for the same items. Sub sandwich’s can…

surprising definition of balloon is fool. In Irish English, balloon is “a boast idiot.” Without doubt, language is ambiguous. Balloon is an object that produces happiness and which you can play with; even though, in Ireland, it is an insult. Words have power, their history shows the great changes that a word can have over time. One of the richest words that I found is flow, which later became flower. Flowers are important components in all events; I have used and received flowers innumerable…

Charles Demuth, called “Deem” by his friends, was the only child of Ferdinand and Augusta Demuth. When Charles was four, he fell and broke his hip. While he was bed-bound because of the injury, his mother presented him with his first art supplies. It was then that his love for art began. Charles' injury caused him to become lame. He was close to both parents, but especially to his mom because of his physical frailty. When Charles was at school, he hung out with the girls because they were not…

Peter Jennings Bio, Net Worth, Daughter, Height, Salary, and Wiki Short Bio Peter Charles Archibald Ewart Jennings who is shortly named as Peter Jennings who is a Canadian- American writer, TV hosts, and journalist by his profession. He was appointed as one and only the host of television news program of the channel i.e. ABC of the show named World News Tonight for twenty-two years until his death due to the lung cancer. He holds Canadian and American nationality and belongs to the family of…

“Education without the Bible is useless.” - Noah Webster. Noah webster was an American lexicographer, a lexicographer is a person who wrote, edited, and compiled dictionaries. Also, he taught millions of Americans to read and write. He has been called “The father of scholarship and education”. While Noah Webster was a student, and also a teacher in schools, he noticed that the American education system needed to be modernized. Despite Noah Webster’s poor education, he had the courage, the…

Regents of the University System of Georgia found that Georgia College has a $235 million impact on the local economy. That’s not just Baldwin County, but that also includes Hancock, Putnam, Wilkinson, Jones and Washington. There are more than 800 jobs created on campus and 2,000 off campus because of the university. We provide employment and also bring more people to Milledgeville to in turn spend their money here. We also have multiple…

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Herodotus to H-Net :The story of Historiography. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. In the book called Herodotus to he-net that was written by Jeremy Popkin talks about the idea of how historiography started overtime and how it developed. It happen during the Cold War where it began to change in the U.S and the other countries during that time like the civil right movements for equality with Africans and Latinos, in the universities the students begun to tell their professor to have…