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Just how big was Nuralagus? Well, the full name of this megafauna mammal is Nuralagus rex --which translates, roughly, as Rabbit King of Minorca, and not incidentally makes a sly reference to the much, much bigger Tyrannosaurus rex. The fact is that this prehistoric rabbit weighed over five times as much as any species living today; the single fossil specimen points to an individual of at least 25 pounds.

Spend more than five minutes in the news business and you'll be asked to cover a press conference. They're a regular occurrence in the life of any reporter, so you need to be able to cover them - and cover them well. But for the beginner, a press conference can be tough to cover. Press conferences tend to move quickly and often don't last very long, so you may have very little time to get the information you need.

A lede, usually used in feature stories, that can take several paragraphs to begin to tell a story, as opposed to hard-news ledes, which must summarize a story's main points in the first paragraph. Delayed ledes can use description, anecdotes, scene-setting or background information to pull the reader into the story.

An ethnic dialect is the distinct form of a language spoken by members of a particular ethnic group. Also called socioethnic dialect . Ronald Wardhaugh and Janet Fuller point out that "ethnic dialects are not simply foreign accents of the majority language, as many of their speakers may well be monolingual speakers of the majority language…Ethnic dialects are ingroup ways of speaking the majority language" ( An Introduction to Sociolinguistics , 2015).

Narodnaya Volya or The People's Will was a radical organization that sought to overturn the autocratic regime of the Tsars in Russia. Founded in: 1878 Home Base: St. Petersburg, Russia (formerly Leningrad) Historical Context Narodnaya Volya's roots can be found in the revolutionary impulse that swept Europe in the late 18th and 19th century.

America's birth is intertwined with the involvement of France in North America. French explorers and colonies scattered across the continent. French military forces were indispensable for America's independence from Great Britain. And the purchase of the Louisiana Territory from France launched the United States on a path toward becoming a continental, and then global, power.

Synecdoche (pronounced si-NEK-di-key) is a trope or figure of speech in which a part of something is used to represent the whole (for example, ABCs for alphabet ) or (less commonly) the whole is used to represent a part (" England won the World Cup in 1966"). Adjective: synecdochic , synecdochical, or synecdochal .

Based on archaeological and historical data, the medieval period of the 11th through 16th centuries AD was the heyday of Swahili Coast trading communities. But that data has also shown that the African merchants and sailors of the Swahili Coast began to trade in international goods at least 300-500 years earlier.

A lot of people take their first sociology course simply to fulfill a college requirement, not knowing much about the field before stepping into that first course. Soon after, however, many fall in love with the subject matter and decide to major in it. If this is you, you may be asking yourself, “What can I do with a degree in sociology?

The best tool for Java programmers as they begin writing their first programs is a debatable topic. Their goal has to be learning the basics of the Java language. It's also important that the programming should be fun. Fun for me is writing and running programs with the least amount of hassle. The question then becomes not so much how to learn Java as where.

Shizukani means "quiet" in Japanese, which is a good word to know if you're trying to sleep soundly on your vacation to Japan or if you have sensitive hearing. Japanese Characters 静かに。 （しずかに。）

The French expression: Tomber dans les pommes (pronounced [to(n) bay da(n) lay puhm]) means to faint or pass out. It has an informal register and literally translates to "to fall in the apples." You might also hear the variation partir dans les pommes (to leave in[to] the apples) Explanation The French expression tomber dans les pommes is a cute way of saying that someone fainted, but I wish I knew why/how apples are related to a state of unconsciousness.

The Volksgemeinschaft was a central element in Nazi thinking, although it has proved difficult for historians to determine whether this was an ideology or just a nebulous concept built from propaganda displays. Essentially the Volksgemeinschaft was a new German society which rejected old religions, ideologies, and class divisions, instead forming a united German identity based around ideas of race, struggle, and state leadership.

In algebraic functions, the slope, or m , of a line describes how rapidly or slowly change is occurring. Linear Functions have 4 types of slopes: positive, negative, zero, and undefined. Positive Slope = Positive Correlation A positive slope demonstrates a positive correlation between the following: x and y input and output independent variable and dependent variable cause and effect Positive correlation occurs when each variable in the function moves in the same direction.

The first phase of the Second Congo War led to a stalemate in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. On one side were Congolese rebels backed and guided by Rwanda, Uganda, and Burundi. On the other side were both Congolese paramilitary groups and the government, under the leadership of Laurent Désiré-Kabila, backed by Angola, Zimbabwe, Namibia, the Sudan, Chad, and Libya.

Cluster analysis is a statistical technique used to identify how various units -- like people, groups, or societies -- can be grouped together because of characteristics they have in common. Also known as clustering, it is an exploratory data analysis tool that aims to sort different objects into groups in such a way that when they belong to the same group they have a maximal degree of association and when they do not belong to the same group their degree of association is minimal.

The adjectives childish and childlike both refer to the characteristics of a child-but generally not to the same characteristics. Put another way, childish usually has negative connotations while childlike usually has positive connotations. Definitions Childish commonly means silly or immature. This adjective usually (but not always) points to unfavorable qualities.

Adverbs as Particles Adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections are called particles. Adverbs in Latin, as in English, modify other words in the sentence, especially verbs. Adverbs also modify adjectives and other adverbs. In English, the ending "-ly," added to an adjective, makes it easy to identify many adverbs: He walked slowly- where slowly modifies the word walked, and where slow is the adjective.

If you're working on pronunciation, these tips can help you use reading as a way to practice outside of class, either by yourself or with a couple of friends. Top Tips Choose a paragraph and read aloud. Choose a paragraph and mark each sentence with a sound script (helpful pronunciation markup). This will help you read more naturally, and thus pronounce correctly.

Allen Gant invented pantyhose in 1953. At the time Gant ran the Glen Raven Knitting Mill of North Carolina, which was founded by his father John Gant in 1902. Gant was inspired to invent the garment by his pregnant wife, Ethel. According to Gant's son, Allen Gant, Jr., Ethel complained that it was too uncomfortable to wear her garter belt while pregnant -- and at the time, this was the only way to hold up her stockings.