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Ever wondered what the term for cloud watching is called? It is Nephelococcygia. The word comes from the play The Birds by the Greek playwright Aristophanes. Nephelococcygia Definition: The act of seeking and finding shapes in clouds.
The Global Language Monitor released its list of the top words of the year on Monday. And Sarah Palin’s word “Refudiate” made it to the top no.4. However, the New Oxford American Dictionary named “Refudiate” as the 2010 word of…
Today, November 9, 2010, is the first day that ACT Scores for the October 23, 2010 exam date will be posted online. If you took the ACT Plus Writing, your Writing scores will be posted online as soon as they…
Are you aiming for a high SAT Test score? Well, who does not? You should listen to Milo Beckman, 14, who tested and confirmed his hypothesis that students who wrote longer SAT essays scored higher. ABC reported: [Beckman] asked his…
NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship (NESSF) Program NASA announces a call for graduate fellowship proposals to the NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship (NESSF) program for the 2011-2012 academic year. This call for fellowship proposals solicits applications from accredited…
Graduate student Karen Owen wrote a very unusual thesis at Duke University entitled “An Education Beyond the Classroom: Excelling in the Realm of Horizontal Academics”. She came up with a list containing all the men that she was sexually involved…
The British counterpart of the German Marxian revisionists and heavily influenced by the English Historical school, the upper-middle-class intellectual group – the “Fabian Society” – emerged in 1884 as a strand of latter-day utopian socialism. They became known to the…
American River College (ARC) is a California community college located in the southern edge of unincorporated Foothill Farms in Sacramento County, California. American River College was named as “Military Friendly College” by G.I. Jobs Magazine. Current enrollment is 35,000 full-time…
Williams College, a small college in Massachusetts, has been ranked by Forbes.com as the Best U.S. College in 2010. Williams College beat Princeton University, Stanford University, and Harvard University. Here is the list of the Top 25 Best Colleges and…
The Princeton Review of the top Party Schools for 2010 to 2011 are out. University of Georgia is on top of the list. 1. University of Georgia 2. Ohio University 3. Penn State 4. West Virginia University 5. University of…