In the 1840s, a series of strange books started to appear in Copenhagen. The books were credited to outlandish pseudonyms: Victor Eremita ("victorious hermit"), Hilarious Bookbinder, Vigilius Haufniensis ("the watcher in ...
Social Sciences
Apr 21, 2021
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Brand names are often written using a combination of uppercase and lowercase letters. Others defy convention by using all lowercase, such as amazon or ebay, or all uppercase, such as IKEA.
Economics & Business
Apr 12, 2021
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Four primary schools in regional South Australia have been involved in the discovery and naming of new species of wasp as part of a trial of a new citizen science project led by the University of Adelaide.
Plants & Animals
Mar 26, 2021
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Researchers from University of Calgary, University of Montana, HEC Paris, and University of Cincinnati published a new paper in the Journal of Marketing that explores the linguistic aspects of a name that can influence brand ...
Economics & Business
Feb 17, 2021
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The Singapore Zoo has welcomed a lion cub named Simba to its animal kingdom following artificial insemination that officials said Tuesday was a first for the city-state.
Plants & Animals
Jan 26, 2021
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Millions of years ago, in the warm Pacific Ocean off the coast of Southern California, walrus species without tusks lived abundantly.
Archaeology
Nov 16, 2020
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Meteorologists were forced to break out the Greek alphabet Friday to name Atlantic storms for only the second time ever after the 2020 hurricane season blew through their usual list, ending on Tropical Storm Wilfred.
Environment
Sep 19, 2020
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There have been so many Atlantic hurricanes and tropical storms this year that the world is running out of names for them, the United Nations said Tuesday.
Environment
Sep 15, 2020
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In a letter to James AH Murray in 1879, the writer ME Lewes wrote "I wish always to be quoted as George Eliot." She perhaps would not have been pleased by a new campaign from The Women's Prize for Fiction and its sponsor, ...
Social Sciences
Aug 19, 2020
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An Alabama high school student named NASA's first Mars helicopter that will be deployed to the red planet later this summer.
Space Exploration
Apr 30, 2020
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