“The Unsinkable” Molly Brown (1867) Though remembered as a socialite, Brown was actually a working class girl who married a miner. She only became wealthy upon the success of her husband’s engineering developments in the mining industry. In the sinking […]

I never make exceptions. An exception disproves the rule. Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)   sal

pagination Definition: (noun) The system of numbering pages. Synonyms: folio, paging Usage: The editions of Holy Writ are so numerous that he could hardly suppose that two copies would have the same pagination.  

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Ismail I (1487) The young Ismail I went into hiding after his father’s death and emerged at age 14 to proclaim himself Shah of Iran. Despite his youth, he was able to reunify Iran and establish the Safavid Empire, which […]

It’s all very well to read about sorrows and imagine yourself living through them heroically, but it’s not so nice when you really come to have them, is it? Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942)  

exhalation Definition: (noun) The act of expelling air from the lungs. Synonyms: breathing out, expiration Usage: He drew the first whiff of smoke deep into his lungs and expelled it in a long and lingering exhalation.  

Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen (1872) Amundsen was a Norwegian polar explorer who led the first expeditions to traverse the Northwest Passage and to reach the South Pole. Turning to air exploration, in 1926 he and Umberto Nobile succeeded in flying […]

He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it—namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain. Mark Twain (1835-1910)  

comeuppance Definition: (noun) A punishment or retribution that one deserves; one’s just deserts. Synonyms: deserts Usage: The central character is an evil man who gets his comeuppance in the end.  

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Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (1608) When Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III ascended the throne, the Thirty Years’ War had been raging for 20 years. After his accession, the war took a disastrous turn. Though he prohibited religious freedom in […]

For he that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears. Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)  

deep-seated Definition: (adjective) (Used especially of ideas or principles) deeply rooted; firmly fixed or held. Synonyms: deep-rooted, implanted, ingrained, planted Usage: He divined the fanatical love of freedom in her, the deep-seated antipathy for restraint of any sort.