The 5 best US cities to celebrate New Year's Eve, ranked The personal finance website WalletHub compared 100 of the biggest US cities on entertainment, food, costs, safety, and accessibility. 12/27/2024 - 9:05 pm | View Link
After a punishing year for Britain’s royals, the Windsors hope for a brighter 2025 This may be one of those years Britain’s royal family will not want to dwell on. Few of the Windsor clan would have anticipated the challenges they’d have to face in the infancy of King Charles III’s ... 12/27/2024 - 4:01 pm | View Link
Passages 2024: Who we lost this year Reflect on the lives of influential figures we lost this year. From music legends to cultural icons, explore the legacies of those who shaped history. 12/27/2024 - 1:37 pm | View Link
51-year-old man missing after going overboard during Caribbean cruise An extensive search for the man was conducted Thursday after he fell, but it was unsuccessful, Norwegian Cruise Line said. 12/27/2024 - 8:24 am | View Link
A look back at the year's biggest stories through our best photographs and illustrations NBC News worked with artists to capture the biggest stories from the year. Here are a few stunning illustrations and photography from 2024. 12/27/2024 - 4:35 am | View Link
expressions A year-end review is a review of something held at the end of the year. The year in review could be used as the name of this year-end review, but it can also simply be a phrase describing the period (one year) that is being reviewed. Here's an example of year in review from 1888, which is one of the earliest uses Google Books can find: 12/26/2024 - 12:14 am | View Website
Year Division by Quarters: any terms to express halves of years or ... It is of course possible to find special terms, but they are not in frequent use. What is usually done is to specify a fraction of a year or a number of days, weeks, or months. One might say "a third of a year" or "four months." Fractions using sixths or twelfths are rare. Most would say "seven months" rather than "seven twelfths of a year." 12/25/2024 - 11:02 pm | View Website
grammar The answer to your title question is general reference: 'mid-year exams' (or rarely, 'middle-of-year exams'), but 'end-of-year exams' or less commonly 'year-end exams'. As to why, perhaps it's because 'end-year' would seem to imply 1918 or 1945 say rather than December, but people feel uncomfortable using 'year-mid' as 'mid' as a noun is ... 12/25/2024 - 10:05 pm | View Website
Which one is correct: "1yr" or "1yr." or "1 yr"? As reported by the Oxford Living Dictionaries (and similarly by the copy of the New Oxford American English that was installed on my Mac Mini) yr. is an English abbreviation, but it could be both the abbreviation of year or years, while yrs. is the abbreviation for years or yours. 12/25/2024 - 9:29 pm | View Website
word choice For the word 'year' to be preceded by 'an' it must sound like it's beginning with a vowel. The reason why it is a tad tricky is because of the difference in the way people pronounce it. Some people pronounce the word 'year' as 'ear' with 'y' silent, thereby wanting 'an' to precede and feeling discomfort with 'a'. e.g. 12/25/2024 - 5:26 pm | View Website
Moon Alert: There are no restrictions to shopping or important decisions today. The New Moon peaks in Capricorn at 5:27 p.m. EST (2:27 p.m. PST).
Happy Birthday for Monday, Dec. 30, 2024:
As a natural leader, you create order out of chaos. You’re organized and see how to make improvements. Exciting changes brought opportunities this year.
Today is Monday, Dec. 30, the 365th day of 2024. There is one day left in the year.
Today in history:
On Dec. 30, 2006, former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein was executed by hanging after being convicted of crimes against humanity by the Iraqi High Tribunal.
Also on this date:
In 1860, 10 days after South Carolina seceded from the Union, the state militia seized the United States Army arsenal in Charleston.
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PLAINS, Ga. — Newly married and sworn as a Naval officer, Jimmy Carter left his tiny hometown in 1946 hoping to climb the ranks and see the world.
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