Indigen Definition: (noun) One that is native or indigenous to an area. Synonyms: Aborigine, Native Usage: Because they had physical characteristics known to be conductive to life in the cold, we thought they must be indigen of Alaska.
By Steven Simineri When Mike Mussina called it a career following his first 20-win campaign in 2008, longtime Yankees captain Derek Jeter, who doesn’t just throw around compliments, said that all of Mussina’s accomplishments “represent a Hall of Fame career.” […]
Follow-up Investigation at Botanical Garden? by David Greene The NYPD’s Highway Patrol was back on the scene of a fatal accident, possibly conducting a rare follow-up investigation. Inquiries were first made after members of the Crash Investigation Squad of the […]
By Robert Cole With much of the basketball media’s attention on the St. John’s vs. Creighton game played in Queens, there was a college basketball team in the Bronx making their own claim for some of that attention. The Lady […]
On this date in 1914 Henry Ford announced that he would reduce the workday eight hours, and pay a minimum wage of $5 a day,
Jeremy Lin is valuable to teams as a draw for Asian-American fans but he is still treated as a novelty, a one-trick pony.
The beginning of this month 50 years ago, the first fluoridation law in the U.S. went into effect.
The National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) has released its 2016 report on human trafficking, also known as slavery. Since 2003, every state has enacted laws establishing criminal penalties for traffickers seeking to profit from forced labor or sexual servitude. […]
Lucretia Coffin Mott (1793) Mott was an American social reformer and women’s rights advocate. She attended a Quaker boarding school near Poughkeepsie, New York, where she later taught, and became an official Quaker minister in 1821. She was active in […]
The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history. George Eliot (1819-1880)
Concomitant Definition: (adjective) Occurring or existing concurrently; attendant. Synonyms: Accompanying, Consequent, Ensuant, Resultant, Sequent, Incidental Usage: There is scarce any human good without it’s concomitant evil.
If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go; perchance it will wear smooth—certainly the machine will wear out. Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
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