A muscle-bound serial rapist was tossed from his court sentencing in Manhattan yesterday when, confronted by one victim, he jumped out of his seat in a rage — and then was slapped with a record 428-year prison sentence. Vincent Heyward, 23, was convicted of attacking five petite women during a brutal...
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Sonia was three years old when her parents and uncles were killed during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in Delhi. IMAGE: 1984 anti-Sikh riots survivor Darshan Kaur breaks down during a press conference on ...
11/2/2024 - 2:10 am | View Link - 2nd Bonus Issue Next Week After 17 Yrs: Auto Stock Jumps 30.17% In 5-Days, Buy Or Sell?
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11/2/2024 - 12:47 am | View Link - Indus creed: What we’re still learning about the Harappan Civilisation, 100 yrs on
It stretches far further than we thought. It was largely rural. And it’s possible we haven’t cracked the script... because it’s largely names and numbers.
11/1/2024 - 9:51 pm | View Link - Seismic change in Botswana as party that ruled for 58 yrs loses power
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11/1/2024 - 9:25 pm | View Link - India sees hottest October in 124 yrs; November won't be much different
October 2024 was the warmest October in India in the last 124 years (since 1914), with an average temperature of 26.92 degrees Celsius — exceeding expected levels by 1.23 degrees Celsius, according to ...
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- Is there a word for "25 years" like "bicentennial" for 200 years? Is it ...
I like the word “quarticentennial” suggested by Ellie Kesselman above. Like the words decennial, every 10 years, and bicentennial, it’s a consistent pairing with the “-centennial “ or “-cennial” root and Latin prefixes.
11/1/2024 - 9:03 pm | View Website - punctuation
First, is it the right abbreviation? No. The common abbreviation is to use "yr" for year. As for the plural, we commonly use "yrs". Now to your examples. They're both different. In the first sentence, you'd write the full words like this. The project took exactly 5 years, 2 months and 18 days to complete. As for the second sentence, it would be ...
11/1/2024 - 11:59 am | 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.
11/1/2024 - 9:07 am | View Website - british english
@EdwinAshworth Well, I wouldn't say registers, which are too broad and speak to overarching social phenomena.. More formal in certain jargons (technical languages), that is, specific to certain trades and industries, not in certain social contexts or among a specific demograp
11/1/2024 - 7:12 am | View Website - Meaning of the valediction "Yours, &c."
The 'et cetera' or '&c' part of the valediction 'Yours &c' is a contraction for a common valedictory statement used during earlier eras of English, as stated before, when relationships between the sender and recipient were more clearly defined--the contraction being of the formal. "I remain, sir, your most loyal and faithful servant".
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