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TheFreeDictionary.com now allows you to create your own personal homepage by adding and removing, dragging and dropping, and "using or losing" existing content windows. In addition, you can add your own bookmarks, weather information, horoscope, and RSS feeds from anywhere on the web.Definition:(verb) Make psychologically or physically used (to something).Synonyms:habituateUsage:Endeavor, then, to accustom yourself to our manner of living in these northern climes as you did to those of Rome, Florence, Milan, and Madrid. Discuss. Play Using the Present PerfectThe present perfect tells us about something that occurred at some indefinite period in the past. However, if something happened at a specific point in time in the past ("last night," "two years ago," "yesterday," etc.), then we must use what tense? More... Discuss Pillar-SaintsThe Pillar-Saints, or stylites, were Christian ascetics who preached while living atop pillars—sometimes for decades at a time. One of the first such stylites, if not the first, was Simeon the Elder of Syria. Expelled from a monastery for excessive austerity, he stood on a column for more than 35 years until his death in 459. He was revered throughout the Christian world and attracted a following. What did Saint Alypius do when he could no longer stand on the pillar he had occupied for 53 years? More... Discuss Alcock and Brown Embark on First Nonstop Transatlantic Flight (1919)In 1918, the Daily Mail newspaper renewed its £10,000 prize for the first nonstop flight across the Atlantic. The next year, British aviators John Alcock and Arthur Brown claimed it after completing a treacherous 16-hour flight from Newfoundland to Ireland. Along the way, Brown had to repeatedly climb onto the wings of their biplane to remove ice, and snow filled the open cockpit. Upon reaching Ireland, they attempted to land in what they thought was a field, but it turned out to be what? More... Discuss Margaret Bourke-White (1904)One of the original staff photographers at Time, Life, and Fortune magazines, Bourke-White was noted for her coverage of World War II. The first woman photographer to serve with US armed forces, she photographed the liberation of Buchenwald and was the only foreign correspondent in Moscow during the German invasion. Her pictures of the rural American South and her portraits of world leaders are also celebrated. What actress portrayed her in the movie Gandhi? More... Discuss I call therefore a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war. John Milton (1608-1674) Discuss Match each word in the left column with its antonym (opposite) on the right. When finished, click Answer to see the results. Good luck! A bouquet of 15 flower words. Teeth, turbans, and taxonomists—the surprising seeds of some of your favorite flowers' names. Match each word in the left column with its synonym on the right. When finished, click Answer to see the results. Good luck! Welcome to WordHub!Use the letters in the wheel to create as many words as you can before time runs out!Play with mouse: Click letters to add or erase them. Click the red circle to delete all.Play with keyboard: Type to add and Backspace to erase. Press Escape to delete all.Good luck! If you leave this page, you'll lose your results. Log in with one click to save your game! Share your results and see if your friends can find more words than you! Connecticut Early Music FestivalThe term "early music" refers to music from the medieval, renaissance, baroque, and classical periods, up to and including Beethoven and Schubert, performed on period instruments. Since 1983, the residents of southeastern Connecticut have been able to hear early music performed on such unusual instruments as the slide trumpet, sackbut, viola da gamba, and the clavichord. The concerts are held in small rooms or churches so that the subtleties of the instruments can be heard particularly the Noank Baptist Church in Noank and the Harkness Chapel at Connecticut College in New London. More... Discuss

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