Word: grewing
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...future] it won't be the same kind of city I grew up in and want to come back to," he said. "I don't want to come back and [find] it's just a bunch of rich white people. That just doesn't sound like...
Browne also holds an interest in the social and cultural history of zoos. His love for zoos began during his childhood in England; he grew up next to the London...
...fact, this mostly blue-eyed, blond or reddish-haired people who originated in what is now Scandinavia were primarily farmers and herdsmen. They grew grains and vegetables during the short summer but depended mostly on livestock--cattle, goats, sheep and pigs. They weren't Christian until the late 10th century, yet they were not irreligious. Like the ancient Greeks and Romans, they worshiped a pantheon of deities, three of whom--Odin, Thor and Freya--we recall every week, as Wednesday, Thursday and Friday were named after them. (Other Norse words that endure in modern English: berserk and starboard...
...turf building were found in 1961. The most spectacular discovery from the Greenland colonies was made in 1990, however, when two Inuit hunters searching for caribou about 55 miles east of Nuuk (the modern capital) noticed several large pieces of wood sticking out of a bluff. Because trees never grew in the area, they reported their discovery to the national museum. The wood turned out to be part of an enormous Norse building, perfectly sealed in permafrost covered by 5 ft. of sand: "definitely one of the best-preserved Norse sites we have," says archaeologist Joel Berglund, vice director...
...just off the bat that I'm from Chicago, and grew up cheering for the Bulls more than any other sports team. I toiled for years as Michael Jordan and company lost repeatedly to the Detroit Pistons, the self-proclaimed Bad Boys, in some of the most intense and thrilling playoff series I have ever seen...