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- Dictionarymonster/ˈmɒnstə/
noun
- 1. a large, ugly, and frightening imaginary creature: "a monster with the head of a hyena and hindquarters of a wolf" Similar
- 2. a thing of extraordinary or daunting size: "this is a monster of a book, almost 500 pages"
verb
- 1. criticize or reprimand severely: informal British "my mum used to monster me for coming home so late"
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Sep 7, 2015 · The etymology of monstrosity suggests the complex roles that monsters play within society. 'Monster' probably derives from the Latin, monstrare, meaning 'to demonstrate', and monere, 'to warn'. Monsters, in essence, are demonstrative. They reveal, portend, show and make evident, often uncomfortably so. Though the modern gothic monster and the ...
Dec 21, 2021 · The largest-ever fossil of a giant millipede – as big as a car – has been found on a beach in the north of England. The fossil – the remains of a creature called Arthropleura – dates from the Carboniferous Period, about 326 million years ago, over 100 million years before the Age of Dinosaurs. The fossil reveals that Arthropleura was ...
Scelidosaurus: illustration by John Sibbick. One hundred and sixty-two years ago, some fossilised bones were collected from the shore beneath Black Ven at Charmouth in west Dorset. They were sent to Richard Owen at the British Museum in London, who was at the time the acknowledged expert on fossils in Britain – among many other achievements ...
Dec 2, 2013 · Jennings was a key figure in the process that saw the decolonisation of dozens of countries that made up the British Empire in the mid-20 th century. Born in Bristol in 1903, he was educated at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge University, and towards the end of his career returned to the University to hold a number of prestigious posts.
Oct 6, 2014 · Throughout history ‘mistress’ was a term with a multiplicity of meanings, like so many forms of female address. In his Dictionary of 1755, Samuel Johnson defined mistress as: '1. A woman who governs; correlative to subject or servant; 2 A woman skilled in anything; 3. A woman teacher; 4.
Feb 9, 2016 · The language and literature of chastity. In her debut book, Dr Bonnie Lander Johnson (Faculty of English) shows how deeply the Christian virtue of chastity was embedded into the culture of the early Stuart world. In the struggle between the newly established Church of England and Roman Catholicism, chastity was a powerful construct that was ...
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Apr 12, 2014 · In the mid-16th century, there were as many as eight Royal mints licensed to strike coins. Outside the mints, counterfeiting was widespread and practised by all manner of “naughty persons”. Records noting the occupations of arrested counterfeiters (punishment for those found guilty of the most severe crimes was hanging) reveal that the came ...
Sally Raudon’s talk, Last call: how different cultures deal with death, will take place on 28 March at 6pm at the Old Divinity School, St John’s College, Cambridge. This article was originally written for Matter, the Cambridge Festival newspaper. There were almost 70 million deaths around the world in 2021.
Apr 21, 2022 · Mutations are what cause the copies of the genome we are born with to diverge. Most mutations have little or no effect on how our cells function. Some are harmful to their hosts. Cancer is a painful example of how somatic mutations can cause disease. In crucial, rare cases, mutations can exhibit positive changes.
