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Article of the day for September 6, 2017

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Article of the day is 2014 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Final. Check it out: http://ift.tt/1oWeX6W

Picture of the day for September 6, 2017

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Allegorical frieze bas-relief on Admiralty Building Central Frieze in Saint Petersburg, Russia..

trope: Word of the day for September 6, 2017

trope , n : (art, literature) Something recurring across a genre or type of art or literature, such as the ‘mad scientist’ of horror movies or the use of the phrase ‘once upon a time’ as an introduction to fairy tales; a motif. (rhetoric) A figure of speech in which words or phrases are used with a nonliteral or figurative meaning, such as a metaphor. […] (music) Musical senses. A short cadence at the end of the melody in some early music. A pair of complementary hexachords in twelve-tone technique. (Judaism) A cantillation pattern, or one of the marks that represents it. (Roman Catholicism) A phrase or verse added to the Mass when sung by a choir. […]

Picture of the day for September 6, 2017

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Picture of the day on September 6, 2017: Allegorical frieze bas-relief on Admiralty Building Central Frieze in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Water a plonker: Lazy construction worker listlessly shovels puddle up ramp like host from westworld

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Water a plonker: Lazy construction worker listlessly shovels puddle up ramp like host from westworld

Water a plonker: Lazy construction worker listlessly shovels puddle up ramp like host from westworld

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Water a plonker: Lazy construction worker listlessly shovels puddle up ramp like host from westworld We're not even mad, we're impressed by how inefficient and listless this is. September 5, 2017 at 04:16PM

The War on Public Schools

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The War on Public Schools

trope: Word of the day for September 6, 2017

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Word of the day is trope : (art, literature) Something recurring across a genre or type of art or literature, such as the ‘mad scientist’ of horror movies or the use of the phrase ‘once upon a time’ as an introduction to fairy tales; a motif. (rhetoric) A figure of speech in which words or phrases are used with a nonliteral or figurative meaning, such as a metaphor. […] (music) Musical senses. A short cadence at the end of the melody in some early music. A pair of complementary hexachords in twelve-tone technique. (Judaism) A cantillation pattern, or one of the marks that represents it. (Roman Catholicism) A phrase or verse added to the Mass when sung by a choir. […]

Article of the day for September 6, 2017

The Article of the day for September 6, 2017 is 2014 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Final . The 2014 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Final was the 101st edition of the oldest competition in American soccer, played on September 6, 2014, at PPL Park (pictured) in Chester, Pennsylvania. Seattle Sounders FC won the match before a crowd of 15,256, defeating the Philadelphia Union. Philadelphia and Seattle both play in the top tier of American soccer, Major League Soccer, and bypassed the initial stages of the tournament with entries into the third round of play. The Sounders were in the midst of a Supporters' Shield-winning regular season, while the Union's start was so poor that their coach was replaced a week prior to their first game in the competition. The Union's Maurice Edu gave his team the lead with a goal in the first half, but the Sounders equalized with a second half strike by Chad Barrett, and the match went into extra time. Clint Dempsey took the lead for Seattle, and Obafemi M...

The War on Public Schools

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The War on Public Schools Americans have underestimated the value of public education — and forgotten its purpose.

New edit in the Article on Google

On September 5, 2017 at 03:20PM, made an edit the Article on Google . The edit was about /* Google data centers */ corrected wording.

New edit in the Article on Google

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Google Custom Search Engine edited the Article on Google http://ift.tt/1oWeX6W