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Word of the Day: Gargantuan - This word has a delightfully literary origin. It comes from Gargantua, the giant king in François Rabelais' 16th-century satirical novel Gargantua and Pantagruel (1534).

Appurtenance is a formal word for something that belongs to a larger item. Think of garages with houses or chargers for phones. These are appurtenances. The term comes from old French and Latin. It is ...

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Horatio Nelson is famous for besting Napoleon at sea. But what did he mean by “Kiss me, Hardy”—his supposed last words?

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