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Edited by seribulan at 4-5-2017 11:15 AM
The less romantically-named polar mesospheric clouds are visible in the upper atmosphere in deep twilight and noctilucent clouds are a hangover from this phenomenon. Noctilucent means ‘night shining’ in Latin. |
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Edited by seribulan at 4-5-2017 11:15 AM
Ceres is thought to be the smallest dwarf planet in the solar system and is named after the Roman goddess of agriculture. |
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Edited by seribulan at 4-5-2017 11:15 AM
‘Ecliptic’ also refers to an equivalent great circle on the terrestrial globe that passes through the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn. Back in the stars, though the great circle on the celestial sphere is inclined at 23.45° to the celestial equator. Do I sound like I know what I’m talking about?
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Edited by seribulan at 4-5-2017 11:13 AM
Another celestial body named after a Roman goddess, Vesta, the goddess of the hearth, Vesta has a diameter of about 530km. |
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Poor Pluto, discovered in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh and downgraded in 2006 to a dwarf planet. |
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Cassiopeia is one of the most conspicuous constellations in the skies. Shaped like a W and located near the Pole Star, Cassiopeia has been identified as the remnant of a supernova. Cassiopeia got her name from Greek myth where she is the wife of King Cepheus and after giving birth to her daughter Andromeda is changed into a constellation.
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Although the indigenous Australian language of Wagiman is near-extinct, the word murr-ma – which means to walk along in the water searching for something with your feet – was given new life recently when it was chosen by a student design team as the name of their innovative design for an amphibious prosthetic leg.
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An oceanid is a figure from Greek mythology. Made up of the three thousand daughters of Titan gods Oceanus and Tethys, Oceanids are patronesses of bodies of water.
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willow12 replied at 3-5-2017 07:21 PM
The idea maybe came from mid life crisis. But for people at 30s belum dikategorikan sbg mid life ( ...
Yup....agreed |
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New terminology ni specific utk term english je ke tt @seribulan?
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any language...kan ada pelbagai bahasa depan tu
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The allision of two ships is different to a collision in that one of the ships must be stationary at the time. If this word isn’t currently used in automobile accident insurance claims then it should be. Like, there you were, minding your own business when suddenly another driver rams into you causing an inconvenient allision in the grocery store car park.
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Ever heard the idiom, ‘in the offing’? No? Well, now you have. If something is ‘in the offing’, it means it is a thing that’s soon to come, something that can be seen to approach from the shore.
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Although ‘abyssopelagic’ originates in the colorful and evocative Greek language its usage is primarily scientific these days and refers to a layer of the oceanic zone at depths between around 4,000 and 6,000m. The depth at which, I imagine, you find the things with no name.
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The beautiful thing about this word is that it does not just mean moonlight. Gumusservi is not just any old moonlight shining down on any old surface. No, gumusservi is specifically the moonlight that reflects on the surface of water. Gorgeous.
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contact high-five
n. an innocuous touch by someone just doing their job—a barber, yoga instructor or friendly waitress—that you enjoy more than you’d like to admit, a feeling of connection so stupefyingly simple that it cheapens the power of the written word, so that by the year 2025, aspiring novelists would be better off just giving people a hug. |
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slipcast
n. the default expression that your face automatically reverts to when idle—amused, melancholic, pissed off—which occurs when a strong emotion gets buried and forgotten in the psychological laundry of everyday life, leaving you wearing an unintentional vibe of pink or blue or gray, or in rare cases, a tie-dye of sheer madness. |
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Zielschmerz
n. the exhilarating dread of finally pursuing a lifelong dream, which requires you to put your true abilities out there to be tested on the open savannah, no longer protected inside the terrarium of hopes and delusions that you created in kindergarten and kept sealed as long as you could, only to break in case of emergency. |
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mahpiohanzia
n. the disappointment of being unable to fly, unable to stretch out your arms and vault into the air, having finally shrugged off the ballast of your own weight and ignited the fuel tank of unfulfilled desires you’ve been storing up since before you were born. |
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