The Purpose of Life Is to Be Happy Most of us understand that we want to be happy. Not everybody, however, knows how to be happy, or is particularly good at it. Humans tend to project cause and effect externally, in that ...
Travel and travail are doublets - that is to say, they have a common ancestor, but have split into separate words. Their ultimate source is medieval Latin trepalium, a term for an instrument of torture...
Algorithm comes from the name of an Arab mathematician, in full Abu Ja far Mohammed ibn-Musa al-Khwarizmi (c. 780 c. 850), who lived and taught in ...
Thing [OE] “The ancestral meaning of thing is time: it goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *thingam, which was related to Gothic theihs time, and may come ultimately from the Indo-European base *ten stretch (source ...
It's true, it's not the first tragic military action since the start of the communications renaissance; but it is the first to enter the western mind in a personal way, as if it's happening to you and I.
Explore the history of denim - 'Jeans of the sort we would recognize today - close fitting working trousers made of hard wearing, typically blue cloth - emerged in America in the mid-19th century...'
