"Pernicious nonsense!" exclaims Professor J. Frank Parnell, the ill-fated nuclear physicist in the 1984 movie Repo Man. It is wonderful little phrase, which is well suited to application in litigation ...

An ancient English cemetery filled with headless skeletons holds proof that the victims lost their heads a long way from home, archaeologists say. Unearthed between 2004 and 2005 in the northern city ...

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Meaning “listen attentively,” from Old English heorcnian. Used in phrases like “Hark! The herald angels sing,” often in literature, poetry, and historical speech. Meaning “enemy or opponent,” from Old ...