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Drag Shírah
* Spanish performer and drag artist

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drag_Sh%C3%ADrah
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Photochromprints 1h ago

Taddiport from Castle Hill, Torrington, England between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900. Views of the British Isles England Torrington

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https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2002708185/

Johnny Game Over aka JGO 1h ago

Amiga Action – Issue 46 – July 1993 [ENGLISH] #magazine #retrogaming #reviews

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Amiga Action – Issue 46 – July 1993 [ENGLISH] #magazine #retrogaming #reviews

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The Language Garage 2h ago

I have a cold/the flu. I’m come down with a cold/the flu. #EnglishVocabulary for feeling sick. #English #ESL #EFL #LearnEnglish #Languages. https://thelanguagegarage.com/english-vocabulary-for-illness/

English Vocabulary for Illness

Learn essential English vocabulary for illness and feeling sick, from coughs and congestion to headaches, fevers, and more.

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The Language Garage 2h ago

Have they plowed the roads yet? #EnglishVocabulary for #Winter. #ESL #EFL #EAL #English #LearnEnglish. Visit us to #learn for #free. https://thelanguagegarage.com/english-winter-vocabulary/

Word of the Day 5h ago

February 10 Wikipedia featured article

The St Scholastica Day riot began in Oxford, England, on 10 February 1355. The disturbance began when two students from the University of Oxford complained about the quality of wine served to them in a tavern; the argument quickly escalated to a fight and the resulting mêlée turned into a riot. The violence continued over three days, with armed gangs entering the town from the countryside to assist the townspeople. University halls and students' accommodation were raided and the inhabitants murdered. Around 20 townsfolk were killed, as were up to 63 members of the university. King Edward III sent judges to the town to determine culpability. He came down on the side of the university, who were given additional powers to the disadvantage of the town's authorities. In an act of conciliation in 1955—the riot's 600th anniversary—the mayor of Oxford was given an honorary degree, while the university's vice-chancellor was made an honorary freeman of the city.

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Word of the Day 6h ago

📕 Word of the Day: besmirch

besmirch • \bih-SMERCH\ • verb

To besmirch the reputation, name, honor, etc. of someone or something is to cause harm or damage to it.

// The allegations have besmirched the company's reputation.

📝 Examples:
"... in 1895, a ruthless public smear campaign hinging on [Oscar] Wilde's queerness led to the author's imprisonment, outing, and eventual exile. ... Famously, the British press conspired to draw the dramatist's name through the mud, besmirching his literary legacy for generations to follow." — Brittany Allen, LitHub.com, 20 Oct. 2025

📜 Did you know?
The prefix be- has several applications in English; in the case of besmirch, it means "to make or cause to be." But what does smirch itself mean? Since the 1400s, smirch has been used as a verb meaning "to make dirty, stained, or discolored." Besmirch joined English in the early 1600s, and today smirch and besmirch are both used when something—and especially something abstract, like a reputation—is being figuratively sullied, i.e., damaged or harmed. Besmirch isn't unique in its journey; English has a history of attaching be- to existing verbs to form synonyms. For example, befriend combines be- in its "to make or cause to be" sense with the verb friend, meaning "to act as the friend of." Befuddle combines be- in its "thoroughly" sense with fuddle, meaning "to stupefy with or as if with drink." And befog combines be- in its "to provide or cover with" sense with fog, meaning "to cover with or as if with fog."

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DailyEnglish 6h ago

🇬🇧 **Word of the Day:** study

⬇️ Example sentences in the image below!

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Ainali 7h ago

Wikimedia Futures Lab, Claudia Garád – #350

http://wikipediapodden.se/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/350.mp3

Podcast: Download (Duration: 7:21 — 5.4MB)

This is the ninth episode in a series of ten short interviews recorded at the Wikimedia Futures Lab in Frankfurt. In this episode, recorded on day three, we meet Claudia Garád, the Executive Director of Wikimedia Österreich and board member of Wikimedia Europe.

All episodes in English (podcast feed)

Credits

The music and sound clips are from Surf Shimmy by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) [CC BY 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Image: WFL Header Icons (cropped and repeated) by Matthias Wörle CC BY 4.0

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The episode is also available on Wikimedia Commons.

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