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Picture of the day for December 24, 2016

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Interior of a chapel at the Vordere Niedere alp in the mountains near Andelsbuch, Vorarlberg, Austria. The chapel was designed by architects Cukrowicz Nachbaur and built in 2008..

sommelier: Word of the day for December 24, 2016

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Word of the day is sommelier : The member of staff at a restaurant who keeps the wine cellar and advises guests on a choice of wines; a wine steward, a wine waiter. Enjoy your Christmas Eve party!

Picture of the day for December 24, 2016

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Picture of the day on December 24, 2016: Interior of a chapel at the Vordere Niedere alp in the mountains near Andelsbuch, Vorarlberg, Austria. The chapel was designed by architects Cukrowicz Nachbaur and built in 2008.

sommelier: Word of the day for December 24, 2016

sommelier , n : The member of staff at a restaurant who keeps the wine cellar and advises guests on a choice of wines; a wine steward, a wine waiter. Enjoy your Christmas Eve party!

The Rockettes Have a Choice--Perform for Trump or Lose Their Jobs

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The Rockettes Have a Choice--Perform for Trump or Lose Their Jobs After they were confirmed to perform at Trump's inauguration, many Rockettes are disgusted with having to perform for the incoming president.

The Rockettes Have a Choice--Perform for Trump or Lose Their Jobs

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The Rockettes Have a Choice--Perform for Trump or Lose Their Jobs

'Morning Joe' Host Says Trump Told Her He Wants A Nuclear 'Arms Race'

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'Morning Joe' Host Says Trump Told Her He Wants A Nuclear 'Arms Race'

'Morning Joe' Host Says Trump Told Her He Wants A Nuclear 'Arms Race'

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'Morning Joe' Host Says Trump Told Her He Wants A Nuclear 'Arms Race' A day after Donald Trump tweeted that the US must "greatly expand its nuclear capability," "Morning Joe" host Mika Brzezinski said that she spoke on the phone with Trump and he stood by the tweet, saying "Let it be an arms race because we will outmatch them at every pass and outlast them all." December 23, 2016 at 02:11PM

Article of the day for December 24, 2016

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Article of the day is Themes in Maya Angelou's autobiographies. Check it out: http://ift.tt/1oWeX6W

Article of the day for December 24, 2016

The Article of the day for December 24, 2016 is Themes in Maya Angelou's autobiographies . Themes in Maya Angelou's autobiographies include racism, identity, family, and travel. Angelou (1928–2014), an African-American writer, achieved critical acclaim for her first of seven autobiographies, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969). That book and the second in the series, Gather Together in My Name (1974), are about the lives of Black women in America. Her autobiographies all have the same structure, a narrative of how she coped within the larger white society she inhabited. In her third autobiography, Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas (1976), she showed the integrity of the African-American character as she experienced more positive interactions with whites. The series continues with The Heart of a Woman (1981), All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes (1986), A Song Flung Up to Heaven (2002), and Mom & Me & Mom (2013). Angelou's a