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mendacity: Word of the day for January 8, 2018

mendacity , n : (uncountable) The fact or condition of being untruthful; dishonesty. (countable) A deceit, falsehood, or lie.

Titans' Quarterback Throws A Touchdown Pass To... Himself

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Titans' Quarterback Throws A Touchdown Pass To... Himself Sometimes you just have to do it all yourself.

The Freezing Cold East Coast Weather Has Made Massachusetts Look Like Antarctica

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The Freezing Cold East Coast Weather Has Made Massachusetts Look Like Antarctica Hello from North Falmouth, MA, where the water's looking very... solid. January 7, 2018 at 10:08PM

The Freezing Cold East Coast Weather Has Made Massachusetts Look Like Antarctica

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The Freezing Cold East Coast Weather Has Made Massachusetts Look Like Antarctica

Picture of the day for January 8, 2018

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Picture of the day on January 8, 2018: Buller's Albatross (Thalassarche bulleri) with a Short-tailed Shearwater (Ardenna tenuirostris) behind, East of the Tasman Peninsula, Tasmania, Australia.

mendacity: Word of the day for January 8, 2018

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Word of the day is mendacity : (uncountable) The fact or condition of being untruthful; dishonesty. (countable) A deceit, falsehood, or lie.

Article of the day for January 8, 2018

The Article of the day for January 8, 2018 is Periodic table . The periodic table is a chart of the chemical elements, ordered by their atomic number and electron configurations. The elements in each group (column) often have similar chemical properties. The table also shows four rectangular blocks with some similarities in physical and chemical properties. Six groups have generally accepted names, including the halogens of group 17 and the noble gases of group 18. The table provides a framework for analyzing chemical behaviour, and is extensively used in chemistry and other sciences. The Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev published the first widely recognized periodic table in 1869, and correctly predicted some properties of then-unknown elements that would be expected to fill in the gaps. Mendeleev's periodic table has been expanded and refined over time; elements 1–94 have all been found to occur naturally, and elements 95–118 have been synthesized in nuclear reactors or laborato