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That "unified Reich" was the Second Reich, the late 19th cy. German Empire, not the Third Reich. The First Reich was the Holy Roman Empire, a loose confederation that was none of these things.

This desert moss has the potential to grow on Mars | ScienceDaily Refers to that paper: Tingyun Kuang, Yuanming Zhang, Daoyuan Zhang. The extremotolerant desert moss Syntrichia caninervis is a promising pioneer plant for colonizing extraterrestrial environments. The Innovation, 2024; 100657...

How are the languages related? I'll start off with Indo-European. Germanic West Germanic: English, Dutch, German North Germanic: Norwegian Celtic: Gaelic, Welsh Italic: Latin Greek Indo-Iranian: Sanskrit Semitic: West Semitic: Central Semitic Northwest Semitic Aramaic Canaanite: Punic...

I like Roosevelt: "rose field" or "field of roses" in Dutch. The "velt" part is cognate to English "field", from Proto-Germanic *felthuz likely from Proto-Indo-European *pletH- "flat" inferred from Latin plânus "flat" and Greek platu- "flat" and English "flat" itself. The "roose" part is from...

Though she is not yet a President and may never be, Kamala Harris has a very unusual first name by President standards, though her last name is much more typical. So I decided to research the names of US Presidents and Vice Presidents with the help of The Meaning and History of First Names -...

It will still need liquid-water temperature and pressure to grow, however, and only a little bit of Mars's surface can have liquid water, and only for a little bit of the time. From the article, It needs "normal growth conditions" to grow - what are the researchers calling "normal"? There is...

Opinion | Joe Biden Is a Good Man and a Good President. He Must Bow Out of the Race. - The New York Times Could Democrats Replace Biden at the Top of the Presidential Ticket? - The New York Times - "While it is possible, it would most likely lead to political upheaval in the party unless the...

Major Democratic Donors Ask Themselves: What to Do About Biden? - The New York Times - "Some floated interventions and wondered about how to reach Jill Biden. Others hoped the president would bow out of the race on his own. Many came to terms with the low chances that he will do so." Who Might...

Biden’s Shaky Debate Performance Has Democrats Panicking - The New York Times - "President Biden’s shaky, halting debate performance has Democrats talking about replacing him on the ticket." Opinion | Kamala Harris Could Win This Election. Let Her. - The New York Times Memo Reveals Trump’s...

‘WTF’: Panicked Dems start looking for alternatives to Biden - POLITICO - "Three strategists close to three potential Democratic presidential candidates said they were bombarded with text messages."

Cross-linguistically, distinguishing singular and plural second-person pronouns is very common, so English is very exceptional. Some English speakers have tried to fix this loss by inventing new plural ones, like "you all", "you people" and "yous", but such forms have had only limited success...

Donald Trump Suffers Triple Primary Blow - Newsweek In South Carolina, Colorado, and Utah. List of endorsements by Donald Trump Endorsements by Donald Trump - Ballotpedia Most of his winning endorsements are of incumbents, and given how often incumbents win, they usually don't need his help...

Presidential debate tonight: Biden blunders dominate debate with Trump Democrats in "state of shock" over "awful" Biden debate performance

Unusual coin toss determines outcome of 7-7 tie in Eugene House primary Neither candidate bothered to go to the capital for this event, where the deputy elections director tossed a coin. "It landed tails up – a victory for Canning." DC was not allowed to run in any other party because of the...

One especially contentious part of the familiar 10 Commandments is Exodus 20:13: is it "murder" or "kill"? Strong's Hebrew: 7523. רָצַח (ratsach) -- to murder, slay H7523 - rāṣaḥ - Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (kjv) "Murder" seems to be the primary sense of the world, deliberate and illegitimate...

Dao De Jing [Tao Te Ching], by Lao Zi [Lao Tzu] in Side-by-Side Translation: Chapter 1 - the Chinese original, Mandarin pronunciation, word-for-word English. 道可道，非常道。 dào kě dào, fēi cháng dào. way can way, not lasting way. 名可名，非常名。 míng kě míng, fēi cháng míng. name can name, not lasting...

...go sell your possessions and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure[aa] in heaven. Then come, follow me.” 20 The young man *said to Him, “All these things I have kept; what am I still lacking?” 21 Jesus said to him, “If you wish to be complete, go and sell your possessions...

Symbol-based language? What do you mean? Spoken Chinese and spoken Sanskrit are like any other spoken language, like spoken English. Like English dog ~ Sanskrit śvan ~ Mandarin gǒu ~ Cantonese gau2 (phonetic transcriptions for Sanskrit and Chinese) Writing? List of writing systems Sanskrit is...

Some more translation. In order, Richard Carrier, R.D. Hicks, Ed. (Perseus Digital Library), The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers | Project Gutenberg and Lives of the philosophers : Diogenes Laertius : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive - A. Robert Caponigri 1...

Who was Mal Colston?