Was watching a DVD about the race to place a man on the moon. The DVD opened with the comment about the sixth decade of the twentieth century being the time when man left the Earth and first travelled to another world. That statement was of course incorrect and the person who made it had [...]

On a show I was watching the other night someone stated that the reason for the discrepancy between the actual year of Jesus’s birth and the year we have numbered from was due to the person who worked out the count using the year of Emperor Augustus’s reign to work it out but with their [...]

Thinking about the teaching I do both in person and over the web had me thinking about the dictionary meanings of certain terms relating to what the students hopefully do. learn verb to acquire knowledge of or skill in by study, instruction, or experience. Present tense – learning, past tense learnt. learned adjective having much [...]