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Blue Moon – 31st December 2009
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009This month is a blue moon month! Commonly speaking, we call a moon ‘blue’ when there are two full moons in the same calendar month. This happens every 2.8 years. An alternative definition declares a moon to be blue when it is the fourth full moon of a season, marked by equinoxes. This definition was [...]
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Thursday, September 10th, 2009This is a grammatically correct sentence: Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo Amazingly, eight buffalo’s in a row conforms to the rules of English grammar. The word “buffalo” in the sentence is used as a noun, a verb and an adjective (the place name Buffalo). The sentence was devised by William J. Rapaport, [...]
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