HYEW (Have you ever wondered) With dGrammarQueen
Triangles have 3 sides. Squares are 4-sided. So, have you wondered why we say 3 square meals? The phrase may have originated from the period when the Royal Navy’s meals …
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Triangles have 3 sides. Squares are 4-sided. So, have you wondered why we say 3 square meals? The phrase may have originated from the period when the Royal Navy’s meals …
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It was a Sunday afternoon in the year 1992. On my way back from church, I had stopped at a secondary school classmate’s house to deliver a message. She wasn’t home. Her brother, King, who was also my classmate, was home. He told me they were not back from church. After exchanging some pleasantries, I made to leave. He held me by the hand and pulled me back with, ‘Where you think say you dey go?’
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At almost ninety years old, this tall slim, enigmatic man is still very busy. His book, DARE TO LIVE MY PASSION; Memoirs of an authentic Railway Man, will be launched on the 18th of July in Lagos. At an age when most men would have retired and gone to bed, Pa Nath (as he is fondly called) is blossoming, his fertile mind and incredible writing skills still getting better. The RADICAL REBEL (as he refers to himself) has authored several books – all of them after retirement
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The Book “Everyday Greatness” by Steven Covey captivated me on the first day of September 2013 when I first set my eyes on it. Reading it enabled me re-define my life’s call.
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July 5, 1643 : First recorded tornado in USA in the Essex County, Massachusetts. July 5, 1687 : Sir Isaac Newton published Principia which contained his Laws of Motion and …
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Boy meets girl and they fall hopelessly in love. Then follows a season of whirlwind romance, a fairy tale wedding, and they live happily ever after…That’s the storybook version of …
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Let me add to your snippets, particularly on Justin Obi and Sam Okoye. Both were not your usual smart fellows; they were absolutely brilliant minds.
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I stood between the Pillars of Hercules Looking unto the lamp of Heaven In the direction of the silver streak With the father of the waters behind me The chanticleer …
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The responsibility to nurture the population by the State is the basis of the numerous rights that people could claim in the State and their demands on the State.
The ideology that informed the [African] State and its policies included the culti¬vation of population growth by the integration of immigrants, war captives, and so on, on the grounds that “people shield the king or the community as the case may be”. In other words, more people meant more security and prosperity in all spheres – economic, military, and so on.
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