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SIDDI KIMPOLE
@SIDIKIMPOLE (3480)
• Eldoret, Kenya
19 Feb 25
I like to take some time online to study Latin American countries. Peru, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay are just but the few whose interest has taken much of me. Lately I learnt that Chile has one of the longest coastal strips...
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Arthur Chappell
@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
4 Aug 21
Initially the idea of a karaoke party singalong is a sound one. Many drinkers like to sing, but don’t know all the words to many songs, so a screen that scrolls the words and provides a cue on which bits to sing next are a big...
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eileenleyva
@eileenleyva (27555)
• Philippines
10 Dec 20
Today we celebrate the feast of the Pope Damasus I, the Bishop of Rome from 366 to 384, an apostle who spoke strongly against heresies but ardently encouraged the veneration of saints.
That is why we have saints.
Pope Damasus I...
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DW Davis
@DWDavis (25797)
• United States
2 Aug 19
During an introspective inspection of my navel today, the word superfluous popped into my head. The first thing I wondered was what is so super about being fluous. Then, I wondered just what it meant to be fluous. A chat with the...
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Diana B.
@BloggerDi (3121)
• United States
15 May 19
Pluviophile is an odd-sounding word. I wouldn't have guessed that it had anything to do with rain. Pluvia is the Latin word for rain, so that explains its origin.
Last week, we had a lovely rain shower during the afternoon, with...
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Arthur Chappell
@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
24 Jan 18
The Prioress offers a loud, excessively pious prayer for the skill and ability to tell her story well and then launches immediately into the most controversial story in the Canterbury Tales, given its anti-Semitic tone and child...
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Arthur Chappell
@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
12 Sep 16
You would be forgiven if you mistook this Catholic parish church for a Cathedral, as it has the third tallest spire in the UK, at 309 feet, and the two taller ones are on cathedrals, at Salisbury and Norwich. It is the most...
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Inlemay
@Inlemay (17712)
• South Africa
31 May 16
Upon my humble home
the wall,
a water painted horse
befall,
Equiferus his name
to be
Hung and strung for
all to see.
~ Lany Olivier
poem dedicated to the first painting, painted by my daughter Inge.
My daughter had her first...
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Inlemay
@Inlemay (17712)
• South Africa
17 May 16
This might be debatable but let me give you my side of the story.
When I was a girl I studied Latin for 5 years, and many a lesson would refer us to an easier way to explain the Latin lesson via the Italian version.
One day our...
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Vivenda
@Vivenda (583)
• Portsmouth, England
19 Nov 15
Yesterday, I tried to use a Bad Word, and was told that I couldn’t post my Discussion until I changed it! Obviously, I won’t be able to tell you exactly what it was, because I won’t be allowed to, but it was the Latin word...
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paopaolar
@paopaolar (226)
• Philippines
5 Apr 11
Have you heard of the expression "carpe diem"? It's a French word for "seize the day". It has a connection with the idea that life is nasty, brutish, short, and solitary and therefore you must seize every day. In short, live life...
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ricextreme
@ricextreme (964)
• Ecuador
9 Jan 11
Memento mori is a Latin phrase translated as "Remember your mortality", "Remember you must die" or "Remember you will die" - literally".
Do you have any comment about this phrase. What do you think about our ephemeral life?
Do...
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