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   Prepare For Passover With These Pertinent Terms
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   Words That Women Have Coined
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   Why Do We Have Leap Year?

   Even though the standard calendar year is 365 days, Earth actually takes 365 days 5 hours 48 minutes and 46 seconds to go completely around the sun. (This is called a solar year.) In order to keep the calendar cycle synchronized with the seasons, one extra day is (usually) added every four years as February 29. Where did this practice come from? Who came up …

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   New Year’s Eve Eve

   New Year's Eve Eve is the day before the final day of the year, or December 30 in the Gregorian calendar.
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   🍉 Watermelon emoji

   The Watermelon emoji 🍉 depicts a slice of watermelon. It is often used in the context of watermelons and watermelon-flavored food. Separately, the Watermelon emoji 🍉 is also used as a symbol of Palestine or…
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   Light Up Your Language For The Festival Of Lights
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   Prost! 9 Festive Emoji For Oktoberfest
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   okurrr

   Okurrr is a fun, sassy, and trilled way of saying OK, known as a catchphrase of rapper Cardi B.
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   thug life

   Especially in Black hip-hop culture, thug life refers to a determined and resilient attitude to succeed in life in spite of racism and injustice.
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    bars

    In hip-hop slang, bars refers to a rapper's lyrics, especially when considered extremely good.
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    12 Banned Books Speak For Themselves

    Here’s an uncontroversial statement: books have the power to teach us about people, places, cultures, and ideas—especially ones that are different or unfamiliar to us. For young people in particular, a book can be a window to the world beyond their everyday surroundings. But recently, a growing number of political leaders, school officials, and parents in several US states have worked to remove or ban …

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    16 Words That Explain British Royal Family Traditions

    Royalty is built on ceremony and tradition, and these ceremonies and traditions are excruciatingly planned down to the slightest detail, often years in advance. Here are some key terms that explain the intricacies of British royal rituals and the places they are performed, including the elaborate funeral of Queen Elizabeth II, coronations, royal weddings, and the final resting places of British monarchs. lie in state …