2024年12月2日 · Abbas the Great, fearing potential rebellions from within his own family, had three of his sons blinded to prevent them from claiming the throne, effectively removing them from power and disqualifying them as future rulers; this act was a result of his growing paranoia and suspicion towards his own family members https://www.khanacademy.org ...

2024年10月9日 · The Great Hurricane of 1780 Forms (1780) The Great Hurricane of 1780 was the deadliest Atlantic hurricane in recorded history. Coming during a very active hurricane season, the storm formed on October 9 and struck Barbados the next day with winds possibly exceeding 200 mph (320 km/h).

2024年8月30日 · White Mouse Nancy Wake (1912) went by many different fake names, confusing and frustrating the Gestapo so greatly that she earned the nickname “White Mouse.” By 1943, Wake was the Gestapo’s number one most wanted person. Wake’s life was at risk with every escape, every Allied enemy she helped – and the Gestapo wasn’t blind to her work.

2025年1月21日 · portentous (adjective) Marked by pompousness; pretentiously weighty. Synonyms: overblown, pompous, grandiloquent, pontifical Usage: His hands, large and coarse, were plentifully bedecked with rings; and he wore a heavy gold watch-chain, with a bundle of seals of portentous size, and a great variety of colors, attached to it.

2015年11月12日 · I grew up in the 1960s hearing my father use the term "might white of . . .", and in the 1970s and 1980s "free, white, and over 21!". The first usually meant being a decent human being, and the second capable of doing as one wished. The southern part of the United States of America was not an always nice place to be during those times.

2022年7月21日 · But in fact Fleet Street, not to mention my head, was a rather seasick and earthquaky sort of thing to stand on. On the whole, I think I owe my success (as the millionaires say) to having listened respectfully and rather bashfully to the very best advice, given by all the best journalists who had achieved the best sort of success in journalism ...

2025年1月18日 · The Great North American Ice Storm Strikes (1998) Daemon: 0: 1,297: Saturday, January 4, 2014 12:00 AM by Daemon : Deadly Incident at Experimental US Nuclear Power Reactor (1960) Daemon: 6: 2,358: Friday, January 3, 2014 12:19 PM by IMcRout : Mercurius becomes Pope John II (533 CE) Daemon: 1: 2,117: Thursday, January 2, 2014 7:10 …

2016年7月27日 · (all) great minds run in the same channel Wise or intelligent people tend to have the same ideas or think in a similar way. Often used humorously regarding unremarkable thoughts occuring simultaenously between two or more people.

2010年2月18日 · It is about meaning of "pleasure". If you use it as a kind of feeling, it becomes uncountable. So you can't say "a great pleasure". But if you use it as a kind of activity, it becomes countable, and you can say "a great pleasure". Don't forget that: you can use "a/an" with only countable nouns.

2024年12月30日 · I can’t think of a better way to honour Jimmy Carter, a US Democratic ex president, than by donating to Habitat for Humanity. He and his wife Rosalynn first began volunteering with the nonprofit in 1984 — 3 years after leaving the White House. They volunteered every year until 2020, eventually helping to build and repair 4,390 Habitat homes.