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Things you didn’t know about Newspaper lingo.
The first issue of The New York Times was published 168 years ago, and to celebrate we're taking look at a brief history of some of our favorite newspaper words and slang. Before newspapers, there were government bulletins. The Acta Diurna or Daily Acts of ancient Rome were carved in metal or stone and posted in public places. In ancient China, tipao, news sheets produced by the government, were "handwritten on silk and read by government officials." In 16th century Venice, a monthly notice was published and sold for one gazeta, a small copper coin, which may be where we get gazette, another word for newspaper. However, gazeta also means…
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Annual Ice Cutting
It's been a long 2 weeks! For me a week is not Mon-Sun, a week is simply the last 7 days of my life. I rarely know what actual day it is until I'm on the computer. To look at a calendar tells me absolutely nothing except the month we 'may' be on. Let's re-cap my last 6 days or so. We have made some very interesting friends over the last few years here at Eliguk. Mostly people who are adventurous enough to find us out here all on their own. Sometimes by quad, but mostly those who have their private pilots license and venture out this far, no matter…
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Off Grid Life…is it Over-Romanticized?
The thought of leaving society and everyone around you to escape into the wilderness with the one person whom you want to spend the rest of your life with can seem very attractive, alluring…even romantic, right? Does your relationship have what it takes?