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gasbag: Word of the day for August 23, 2016

gasbag , n : A bag or bladder to hold a reservoir of gas, as in a hot-air balloon. (figuratively) A person who is overly garrulous or prone to making empty, unsupportable statements; a windbag.

Picture of the day for August 23, 2016

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Living statue in Annecy, France..

John Oliver Explains That Trump's Best Option Is To Call It Quits And Walk Away 'A Legend'

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John Oliver Explains That Trump's Best Option Is To Call It Quits And Walk Away 'A Legend'

gasbag: Word of the day for August 23, 2016

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Word of the day is gasbag : A bag or bladder to hold a reservoir of gas, as in a hot-air balloon. (figuratively) A person who is overly garrulous or prone to making empty, unsupportable statements; a windbag.

The Uber Killer: The Real Story of One Night of Terror

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The Uber Killer: The Real Story of One Night of Terror

Article of the day for August 23, 2016

The Article of the day for August 23, 2016 is Handel's lost Hamburg operas . Of the four operas written by the youthful composer George Frideric Handel (pictured) between 1703 and 1706 when he lived and worked in Hamburg, only the first, Almira, has survived complete. The music for the others is lost apart from a few orchestral fragments. Handel learned the rudiments of opera composition while employed as a violinist at the Oper am Gänsemarkt, Hamburg's famous opera house, and was able to get Almira and a second opera, Nero, performed there during the temporary absence of the theatre's director, Reinhard Keiser. Almira was successful, Nero less so. Handel's last two Hamburg operas, Florindo and Daphne, were not produced at the Gänsemarkt before Handel left Hamburg. No music that can be definitively traced to Nero has been identified, although scholars have speculated that some of it may have been used in later works, particularly Agrippina, which has a similar plot and

The Uber Killer: The Real Story of One Night of Terror

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The Uber Killer: The Real Story of One Night of Terror On a Saturday evening in February, a 45-year-old Uber driver and father of two named Jason Dalton got into his car, left his home near Kalamazoo, Michigan, and began shooting people. But the strangest, most unfathomable thing about the night that Dalton killed and killed again is what he did in between.