Putonghua is more commonly known as Mandarin.- Pamela Wallin returned to the Senate this past week after being suspended two years ago over disputed expenses.
- The 2015 ‘word’ of the year is the suffix ‘-ism’ but only as it is attached to certain words, such as socialism, fascism, racism, feminism, capitalism, communism and terrorism.
- In 1816 Mohr (lyrics) and Gruber (music) composed ‘Silent Night’, or ‘Stille Nacht’, in the small Austrian village of Oberndorf, just a matter of hours before Christmas mass.
- A collective noun for cobras is quiver.
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