Foray

Foray: Word In Context

Grammar Police Always Stages A Midnight Foray

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Fortuitous

Happening By Chance = Fortuitous

Word In Context

Things Always Dont Happen By Chance

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Things Always Dont Happen By Chance

Choice - Chance -Change

Forage

Forage 

 Foraging

Foraging: Collection Of Nectar and Pollen by Bees

Classification Of Foraging Behaviour

Types Of Foraging

Current Events

Expect higher prices, not food shortages due to coronavirus pandemic, expert says

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Xenon

Xenon

Xenon In Greek Means Foreign (Out Of This World)

Xenon: Medical Imaging 

Ventilation Lung Scan: Xenon 133

Other Radiopharmaceuticals

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How does India, a country of 1.3 billion people, have around 1,000 coronavirus deaths?

"India didn't wait for the problem to escalate," India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on April 14, as he extended the country's 21-day nationwide lockdown until May 3. "Instead, as soon as the problem appeared, we tried to stop it by making swift decisions. I can't imagine what the situation would have been had such quick decisions not been taken."

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Dagon

The Philistines, a community of Canaanites, were an Aegean people who settled on the southern coast of the area we now know as Israel during the 12th century B.C. Their pagan god Dagon, also referred to as Dagan, was a fertility deity who eventually morphed into an important Semitic god.

Dagon was represented by both grain and fish, symbols of fertility and multiplying. Often depicted with the torso of a man and the tail of a fish, he may very well be the first merman, predating even the merfolk (mermaids and mermen) of Greek mythological legends.

In the Hebrew Semitic dialect, the root of Dagon, dag, means fish, and Dagan or Dagon is an endearing term, meaning little fish. Some linguists interpret the name as meaning grain in the ancient language of the Canaanites.

Origin

The first known appearance of Dagon is in the records of Mari, Syria, in ancient Mesopotamia from 2500 B.C. Later, he was mentioned in the inscriptions of Assyria and Babylonia as a protector and warrior god. In the texts of the port city of Ugarit in ancient Syria a temple in his honor stood in this ancient place. 

It seems the ancient Dagon was a big part of the life of the ancient Philistines, Assyrians and Babylonians and other Canaanites. 

He is mentioned several times in the Hebrew Bible.

 In the Hebrew Bible, Dagon is particularly the god of the Philistines with temples at Beth-dagon in the territory of the tribe of Asher (Joshua 19.27), and in Gaza (see Judges 16.23, which tells soon after how the temple is destroyed by Samson as his last act).

Dagon symbolism permeates Catholicism

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Radon

Radon Contributes To Thousands Of Deaths Each Year

Radon: Naturally Occurring Radioactive Gas That Can Cause Lung Cancer

Indoor Air Pollutant: Radon

Derived from the natural decay of Uranium

Colourless/Odourless/Tasteless

Radon: Second only to Smoking as the leading cause of Lung Cancer 

Smoking VS Radon

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Sweden says its coronavirus approach has worked. The numbers suggest a different story

Sweden has been an outlier during the coronavirus outbreak. The country has not joined many of its European neighbors in imposing strict limits on citizens' lives, and images of people heading to work on busy streets, or chatting at cafes and bars have raised eyebrows.

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