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What is meant by 'between a rock and a hard place'?

Most people have heard the expression: "Between a rock and a hard place." Perhaps some of you have used the expression yourself. How many...

Man! I feel like a woman

As one might expect, or perhaps 'should expect', the State of California is at it again, changing the rules that God has set for us in...

Review of 'Stylized' for Strunk and White's 'Elements of Style' on their silver anniversary

Back in 1959, half a century ago, a slim volume came out of the press of Macmillan, called The Elements of Style. Most of it had circulated earlier...

Finds in the Valley of the Kings

On a recent archeology blog (Archaeorama), Dr. Zahi Hawass, Egypt’s premier archeologist discusses a few finds in the Valley of the Kings....

The origin of Halloween

In archaic English, the name for the Christian holiday of November 1st was All Hallows Day or All Hallow Mass. It meant the same thing as the...

Education 101: What is Ramadan?

Among Muslims in the United States (and many other countries), there are two calendars, the secular one and the religious one. The secular calendar...