A few months ago a team of 30 Russian scientists led by Dmitry Itskov, a Russian billionaire and founder of the “2045 Initiative,” announced that they have laid out the plan for their project that envisions living forever – or humans being immortals. The project aims…
Many beautiful phrases have been created to describe what music really is all about. We call it the magic that is music. In truth, no matter how we try to understand what it is exactly about music that touches people in a very mysterious way,…
May the Fourth Be with You! Millions of fans all over the world, or perhaps, the galaxy, prepare to celebrate what they consider to be Star Wars Day. May the Fourth be with you is a clever wordplay or translation from the movie’s famous line May…
Irish Gaelic, or Gaeilge, or simply Irish, is the national language of the Republic of Ireland. The language is related to Scottish Gaelic, as well as Manx, a language used in the “Isle of Man.” “Gaelic” is actually a term that describes various languages the…
In Sanskrit, the name Sri Lanka means “Venerable Island.” The name comes from the words sri, meaning venerable, and lanka, which means island. The island nation is surrounded by the Indian Ocean, though it is in close proximity to India and Maldives. Sri Lanka is…
All American as apple pie? Not necessarily so. Though many American dishes are considered to be all American staples such as cornbread, chicken fried steak, hotdogs and ice cream, many of our most loved American dishes and smorgasbord items may not necessarily have originated in the United…
Spanish. One of the romance languages. A language spoken by roughly 406 million native speakers; with 60 million people speaking it as their second language and around 20 million more studying it as a foreign language. Spanish is the second most spoken language in the…
On Monday, April 15, Concord, Massachusetts, is taken back in time as the city celebrates a state holiday, Patriots’ Day. On this day, Massachusetts commemorates the 1775 Battle of Lexington and Concord. This unique holiday is only celebrated in New England, in the states of…
Annyeonghaseyo! This is the basic greeting that you are bound to hear when you meet a Korean national. This is a formal greeting that is applicable to everyone, particularly for people that you have just met and for elders. The informal greeting is a shortened…
The Kingdom of Sweden is located in Northern Europe. This Scandinavian nation is the third largest country in the EU, with land measuring over 460,000 square kilometers and populated by almost ten million people. It is from Sweden that many of the most useful things…
Change is the one thing we can expect. Whatever social and cultural changes are going on in the world, our language is the first to reflect it. We have to constantly come up with new words and new definitions for new things that we do….
Vietnamese or “tiếng Việt” in the vernacular, is the official and national language of the Vietnamese people or “Kinh” living in Vietnam and the Vietnamese people located in many parts of the world since 1954. Several ethnic minorities in Vietnam also speak Vietnamese as their…
