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| Woman facing stoning: I'm afraid to die Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:51:26 EDT In a letter to supporters, Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, writes of her fears of dying. Her stoning sentence was recently put on hold, but Iran's judiciary may release their final decision in the case next week. |
| Greek military to deliver fuel amid strike Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:34:14 EDT The Greek government ordered the country's armed forces to help deliver fuel as truck drivers voted to continue a contentious strike, state media reported. |
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| Boy in U.S. adoption case in orphanage Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:41:45 EDT A boy sent back to Moscow by his adoptive mother in the United States is in an orphanage, an attorney for the group that arranged the adoption says. |
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| More than 400 dead in Pakistan flooding Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:49:39 EDT Flooding caused by monsoon rain has killed more than 400 people across Pakistan, a provincial government official says. |
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| Calls to cancel 9/11 Quran-burning event Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:50:31 EDT In protest of what it calls a religion "of the devil," a non-denominational church in Gainesville, Florida, plans to host an "International Burn a Quran Day" on the ninth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks. |
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Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for July 31, 2010 is:
sirenian • \sye-REE-nee-un\ • noun
: any of an order (Sirenia) of aquatic herbivorous mammals (as a manatee, dugong, or Steller's sea cow) that have large forelimbs resembling paddles, no hind limbs, and a flattened tail resembling a fin
Example sentence:
"Looking humanlike in certain aspects, sirenians are thought to be the basis of the myth of mermaids." (Michael McCarthy, The Independent [London], February 28, 2009)
Did you know?
"Sirenian" traces back via Latin to Greek "seirēn," which is equivalent to our word for the sirens of Greek mythology. And what is the connection between sirens and sirenians? Modern sirenians do not resemble the half bird, half woman creatures who lured sailors to their doom with their sweet singing. But as our example sentence states, sirenians are considered by some to underlie the ancient legends about mermaids. In European folklore mermaids were sometimes called "sirens," and apparently this confusion resulted in the granting of sirenians the name they bear today.