Labels: Videos
Yael Naim
The Shins
Slaughterhouse-Five
This Day in History
  Junko Tabei Becomes First Woman to Summit Mount Everest (1975)Tabei founded a climbing club for women in Japan in 1969 and, by 1972, was a recognized mountain climber. When Japanese newspaper and television companies sponsored an all-female expedition to climb Mount Everest, Tabei was one of the 15 women selected to go. In 1975, after months of training and preparation, the 35-year-old mother of two became the first woman to reach Everest's 29,035-foot (8,850-m) summit. What disaster partway up the slope nearly ended the climb? More... Discuss |
In the News
judder discuss | |
| Definition: | (verb) Shake or vibrate rapidly and intensively. |
| Synonyms: | shake |
| Usage: | The old engine was juddering and smoking, so I took the car to the mechanic. |
Quote of the Day
 As to the sufferers, whose sole inheritance was labor, and who had lost that inheritance; who could not get work, and consequently could not get wages, and consequently could not get bread; they were left to suffer on, perhaps inevitably left.Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855) Discuss |
