| Toady's tidbits for today / Don't skip breakfast! Start the day with some food for thought. | ||||
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Words to keep
"We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter but with guns." —Paul Joseph Goebbels (1936) (Goebbels was director of propaganda in Nazi Germany.) |
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| Kyushu & Japan The term kamikaze, Japanese for "divine wind", originated in the history of Fukuoka. When Kublai Khan tried to invade this part of Kyushu in the year 1274, his fleet was destroyed by a typhoon. He made a second attempt seven years later, and it happened again. After that he gave up. Those timely typhoons gave rise to the conception of a divine wind that protects Japan from invasion. That became the desperate mission of the Special Attack Force pilots in the last months of World War II. The combined kanji characters for "god" and "wind" can be read either as kamikaze or as shinpu, the name actually used for the Special Attack Force. |
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| Toady's teaser for today / Look tomorrow! | ||||
| Q: What images appear in color to some people and in black-and-white to others, and are visible without light? | ||||
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Yesterday's teaser
Q: Why is it that most of the essential verbs in English are hard to learn? A: Because most of them are irregular. A few examples are go/went/gone, do/did/done, think/thought/thought, and sleep/slept/slept. |
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Toady's triathlon for today /
Here are three quick exercises to get you going! [Note: The exercises may not work in all browsers.] |
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