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palliative

Definition: (noun) Moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear.
Synonyms:alleviative, lenitive, mitigatory
Usage:Hospital administrators in the US only began to recognize the importance of palliative care for terminally ill patients relatively recently.
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Dango

A dango is a Japanese dumpling made from rice flour. Three or four of these dumplings are often served on a skewer accompanied with green tea. Savory, sweet, or both, they are flavored with a number of different ingredients, including eggs, green tea, sesame, soy sauce, and the especially popular anko—a red bean paste. The dish is so popular that it even inspired a Japanese proverb—hana yori dango, or "dumplings rather than flowers." What is the message of this proverb? More...
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Once Upon a Time, In a Galaxy Far, Far Away

Astronomers have confirmed that a galaxy detected by the Hubble telescope is the most distant object ever observed. This galaxy, called UDFy-38135539, is 13.12 billion light-years from Earth. Because of the time it takes for light from such a distant galaxy to reach Earth, experts believe the light they observed was emitted when the universe was just 600 million years old. Prior to this finding, the most distant confirmed galaxy was one 12.93 billion light-years from Earth and the most distant observed object of any kind was a gamma-ray burst that originated 13.09 billion light-years away. More...
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The Springhill Mine Bump (1958)

Just two years after an explosion killed 39 miners in Springhill, Nova Scotia, Canada, the most severe "bump," or underground shockwave, in North American mining history devastated the mining town again. Of the 174 miners in the mine at the time of the collapse, 100 were rescued by draegermen—rescue miners—who spent days trying to make contact with those below. Seventy-four miners were killed in the tragedy. Why were the bodies of the dead removed from the mine in airtight aluminum coffins? More...
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Pierre Larousse (1817)

Larousse was a French publisher, lexicographer, and encyclopedist. In 1852, he founded a publishing house called Librairie Larousse, producing textbooks, grammar books, and dictionaries, but his major work, reflecting his desire "to teach everyone about everything," was the combined dictionary and encyclopedia Grand dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle, or Great Universal 19th-Century Dictionary, which took more than 10 years to complete. Who finished it after Larousse's death? More...
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