Picture of the day for January 9, 2018
Picture of the day on January 9, 2018: Aurora in Estonia.
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Watch Oprah Winfrey's Absolutely Incredible Speech At The Golden Globes
Watch Oprah Winfrey's Absolutely Incredible Speech At The Golden Globes Oprah is the first black woman to receive the Cecil B. DeMille award. By the end of her speech, there wasn't a dry eye in the house. January 8, 2018 at 02:08PM
The Rockefellers vs. the Company That Made Them Rockefellers
The Rockefellers vs. the Company That Made Them Rockefellers The family that pioneered the oil industry in America wants to expose what Exxon hid from the public about climate change.
Watch Oprah Winfrey's Absolutely Incredible Speech At The Golden Globes
Watch Oprah Winfrey's Absolutely Incredible Speech At The Golden Globes
man down: Word of the day for January 9, 2018
man down , v : (transitive, idiomatic) To lose courage or cause to lose courage. (transitive) To reduce in manpower. (transitive, chiefly falconry) To train (a raptor or other type of bird) to become accustomed to the presence of people; to man.
Article of the day for January 9, 2018
The Article of the day for January 9, 2018 is Der 100. Psalm . Der 100. Psalm (The 100th Psalm), Op. 106, is a composition in four movements by Max Reger in D major for mixed choir and orchestra, a late Romantic setting of Psalm 100. Reger began composing the work in 1908 for the 350th anniversary of Jena University. It premiered simultaneously on 23 February 1910 in Chemnitz, conducted by the composer, and in Breslau, conducted by Georg Dohrn. Reger structured the text in four movements, as a choral symphony. He scored it for a choir of four to eight voices, a large symphony orchestra, and organ. Reger used late-Romantic features of harmony and dynamics, along with polyphony in the Baroque tradition. The last movement is a double fugue, with an instrumental cantus firmus of Luther's chorale "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott" as its climax. The biographer Eugen Segnitz considered the work unique in the sacred music of its period, with a convincing musical interpretation of ...