- to beat with or as if with a short heavy club
- to criticize severely
- Lizards communicate by doing push-ups.
- Snoopy is the most common dog name beginning with the letter S.
Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc was a French architect and author who restored many prominent medieval landmarks in France, including those which had been damaged or abandoned during the French Revolution. His major restoration projects included Notre-Dame de Paris, the Basilica of Saint Denis, Mont Saint-Michel, Sainte-Chapelle, and the medieval walls of the city of Carcassonne. His later writings on the relationship between form and function in architecture had a notable influence on a new generation of architects, including Antoni Gaudí, Victor Horta, and Louis Sullivan.
Joseph Robinette "Joe" Biden Jr. é um advogado e político norte-americano. Filiado ao Partido Democrata, foi o 47º vice-presidente dos Estados Unidos de 2009 a 2017. Entre 1973 e 2009, exerceu seis mandatos consecutivos como senador pelo Delaware, período em que presidiu importantes comitês do Senado dos Estados Unidos. Atualmente, é o presumível candidato democrata a presidente dos Estados Unidos na eleição de novembro de 2020.
Biden e sua família se mudaram para o Delaware em 1953. Tornou-se advogado em 1969 e foi eleito para o Conselho do Condado de New Castle em 1970. Em 1972, sua eleição para o Senado o converteu no sexto senador mais jovem da história norte-americana. No Senado, integrou por muitos anos e presidiu o Comitê de Relações Exteriores. Em 1991, se opôs à Guerra do Golfo, mas defendeu a intervenção dos EUA e da OTAN na Guerra da Bósnia em 1994 e 1995. Votou a favor da resolução que autorizou a Guerra do Iraque em 2002, mas se opôs ao aumento de tropas norte-americanas em 2007.
The Balkans theatre, or Balkan campaign, of World War I was fought between the Central Powers and the Allies.
The campaign began with Austria-Hungary's offensive into Serbia, which was repulsed. A new attempt led to the Austro-Hungarian and Bulgarian conquest of Serbia and Montenegro. That led to the Serbian army to retreat through Albania and to be evacuated to Salonika by the Allies. There, they joined with the Franco-British Allied Army of the Orient and fought a protracted trench war against Bulgarian forces on the Macedonian front. The allied army was stationed in Greece, which resulted in the National Schism on whether Greece should join the Allies or remain neutral, which would benefit the Central Powers. Greece eventually joined the Allies in 1917. In September 1918, the Vardar Offensive broke through the lines of Bulgaria, which was forced to surrender, leading to the liberation of Serbia, Albania and Montenegro.