December 2010
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A thousand years ago, a man built a barn in a spooky forest. Then, 3 ghosts popped out of the ground, some ghosts went to the barn and some went to his car. And when he got to his barn he was a monster. AAAGGHHHH!
This is the title of an article about some industrial complex moving out of beijing to make way for condos:
Metallic Giant Draggles to Ocean_English_Caixin
draggle |ˈdragəl|verb [ trans. ]
make (something) dirty or wet, typically by trailing it through mud or water : [as adj. ] (draggled) she wore a draggled skirt.• [ intrans. ] hang untidily : red hairs draggled from under her cap.• [ intrans. ] archaic trail behind others; lag behind : they draggled at the heels of his troop.ORIGIN early 16th cent.: diminutive and frequentative of drag.
-noun
The inability to recall the correct word.
Oh good. Now I can fail to remember this after I’ve failed to remember the word I wanted to use.
Exploring Chongqing.
If you don’t want to brave the December chill, or if your weather doesn’t cooperate for lunar viewing, NASA has you covered!
A live video feed of the lunar eclipse will be embedded on this page on the evening of Dec. 20 by approximately 6 p.m. EST. The camera is mounted at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.