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1 day ago · Definitions. A tornado is a violently rotating column of air, in contact with the ground, either pendant from a cumuliform cloud or underneath a cumuliform cloud, and often (but not always) visible as a funnel cloud. [18] For a vortex to be classified as a tornado, it must be in contact with both the ground and the cloud base.
7 hours ago · The narwhal is an agile and medium-sized whale. Adult males are around 4.1 m (13 ft) long from nose to tail tip, and females average 3.5 m (11 ft); the overall body length of 3.0 to 5.5 m (9.8 to 18.0 ft) is suggested for both males and females.
7 hours ago · Look at images of the Sussexes three-day tour of the West African nation from last week and it is a discombobulating (there’s another word) experience, with the main beats looking eerily like ...
7 hours ago · Today in 1752, Timothy Dwight IV, minister, scholar, theologian, war chaplain, songwriter, political leader, travel writer, college president, and one of a group of early American poets and writers known as the Hartford Wits, was born. The eldest of 13 children born into an influential family in Massachusetts, Dwight graduated….
1 day ago · Great Expectations at Wikisource. Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel. It depicts the education of an orphan nicknamed Pip (the book is a Bildungsroman, a coming-of-age story). It is Dickens' second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person.
- Charles Dickens
- 544 (first edition 1861)
- 1860
- Novel, Bildungsroman
7 hours ago · Nigerian President Calling Out Meghan Markle's Overbearing Behavior. R M 0. Meghan Markle's recent trip to Nigeria, aimed at supporting the Invictus Games, took an unexpected turn, catapulting her once again into the spotlight of controversy. The Duchess of Sussex found herself embroiled in a diplomatic debacle, resulting in her being banned ...
7 hours ago · Robert Smith (musician) Robert James Smith (born 21 April 1959) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, and the co-founder, lead vocalist, guitarist, primary songwriter, and only continuous member of the Cure, an alternative rock band formed in 1978. His unique guitar-playing style, distinctive singing voice, and fashion ...
