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Chile’s Coastal Strip makes it stand out

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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Why I Hate Karaoke

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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Do you know who compiled the Bible?

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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Superfluous

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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Weird Word Wednesday- Pluviophile

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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Book Review Chaucer The Canterbury Tale The Prioresses Tale

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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What you learned in school. Are you using it now?

Paula Tranchina @Ganma7 (3664) 24 Sep 17

Now at age 66 I was thinking about what things I learned in school that I have not used during my years since graduating high school in 1969. Latin is one. Chemistry oh how I struggled with that one. I know anything you learn...

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Interesting and useful Latin proverbs

Sanja Ilijev @sanyai (78) • Serbia 19 Sep 17

Cognito ergo sum I know that's why I am. Scio me nihil scire meaning I know that I don't know. Latin is not live language so we often use Latin proverbs in everyday speech and almost everyone knows its meanings like in...

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Maundy Thursday meaning

Denise @petatonicsca (7070) • Japan 13 Apr 17

Did you know that Maundy Thursday, today where I am, is the day when Jesus celebrated the Passover with his disciples, and thus gave us communion? Did you know that the word "Maundy" comes from the Latin phrase "Mandatum novum"...

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holy week

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Preston Heritage Weekend Tour – St Walburges Church

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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The Equiferus has been hung!

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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Italian the Most Romantic Language in the World

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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I Used a Bad Word!

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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Truffles (candies) - Name Origin

ivan88 @ivan88 (193) • Canada 29 Dec 12

It always puzzled me before - those chocolate candies aren't the same at all. I mean, the actual truffles are the mushrooms growing in France. They chocolate candies that are named the same way don't resemble mushrooms at all. In...

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Is jhoom the new zumba?

wrenfrost56 @wrenfrost56 (79) 9 Nov 12

During the last few years the fitness industry has been all about latin dance, do you think the next big thing will be the bollywood dance sensation jhoom? Have any mylotters tried zumba or jhoom and do they think that they...

is there someone here who knows latin?

sweetloveforeve @sweetloveforeve (13116) • Portugal 16 Oct 12

hi guys^^ i studied latin back in school. i still remember a few things but its been awhile. if someone here knows latin can help me please to translate something? a friend asked me for help. thanks so much.

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Speak Latin. Possessed?

HeartROB @HeartROB (434) • Philippines 26 Aug 11

I have watched a news lately today. The news was all about a group of children possessed because they were said playing "Spirit of the glass". I am not trying to be skeptical here. I am just wondering, they were said to be...

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Carpe diem!

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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life is short

live life to the fullest

seize the day

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Edgar Cruz Guitar Master

gain5758 @gain5758 (14) • Indonesia 1 Feb 11

Hi all, While ago,I've watched youtube video that contain a demonstration of a Guitar Master.That was absolutely awesome skills he got there.So I wonder who's the name of the guitarist...as same as the title.Edgar Cruz.I...

"Memento mori"

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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