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15 April 2011 

QUOTES


All you need is ignorance and confidence and success is sure.

--Mark Twain 

 

I never think of the future.  It comes fast enough.

--Albert Einstein 

 

And in today already walks tomorrow.  

--Samuel Taylor Coleridge 

 

All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter. 

--Sai Baba    

 

The ambition should be made of sterner stuff. 

--Wiliam Shakespeare 

 

All the world is full of suffering.  It is also full of overcoming.  

--Helen Keller

 

 

ART

 

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Artist Heather Jansch 

Devon Coast UK

www.heatherjansch.com 

WORD POWER


VOCABULARY   

Graduate Record Exam

 

requite: repay, revenge

 

fulgent: beaming; radient

 

doggerel: poor verse

 

fell: cruel, deadly

 

magnanimous:  generous

 

importune: beg earnestly

 

somnolent: half asleep

 

decant: pour over gently

 

interpolate: insert between

 

diffidence: shyness

 

horatory:  encouraging

 

cerebration:  thought

 

virago:  shrew

 

gloaming:  twilight

 

reprove:  censure

 

vellum: parchment

 

anathema: solemn curse

 

ordinance:  decree

 

adjure:  request solemnly 


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1. What country led the world in percentage of TV homes with a VCR by 1994? Japan

 

2.  What country would you be in if you visited the ancient ruins of Machu Picchu? Peru

 

3.  What U.S. City had 3 of the world's 5 tallest man-made structures in 1994?  Chicago

 

4.  What U.S. state has a difference iof 20,320 feet between its highest and lowest points? Alaska 

 

5.  What Iowa nickname honored Chief Black Hawk's fight against European expansionism? The Hawkeye State 

 
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