The origin of the word dominate is Latin, which students from St. John's Episcopal Parish Day School know all too well. ...more

March 3, 2010

It always helps to start at the beginning — in this case America. It begins with that Robert Frost moment of "two roads diverged in the wood" — and the road our founders took "made all the difference" — "the one less traveled by..." ...more

March 22, 2009

LONDON - On the streets of Birmingham, the queen's English is now the queens English. England's second-largest city has decided to drop apostrophes from all its street signs, saying they're confusing and old-fashioned. But some purists are downright possessive about the punctuation mark. ...more

February 1, 2009

Protesters swarmed Thailand's main international airport Tuesday, forcing the cancellation of departing flights just hours after their comrades opened fire on government supporters in a clash on the streets of the capital. ...more

November 26, 2008

At exactly 8:31 a.m. local time Thursday, after a two-year wait for the precise moment deemed most favorable by court astrologers for a successful reign, Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck, 28, became the fifth king of the small Himalayan nation of Bhutan. ...more

November 7, 2008

Almost 40 seventh- and eighth-graders from St. John's Episcopal Parish Day School attended a recent Latin Mini-Forum in Bradenton. The event prepares students for the Florida Junior Classical League Fora in the spring, an academic testing and Certamen event. Certamen is a game in which teams of students answer questions on topics such as Roman history and culture and Latin grammar and vocabulary. At the mini-forum, St. John's students won top awards in tests such as mythology, customs, grammar and history of the monarchy and republic. ...more

October 22, 2008

Hindu and Buddhist priests chanted sacred hymns and cascaded flowers over a 3-year-old girl who was appointed a living goddess in Nepal on Tuesday. ...more

October 8, 2008

Do you sometimes feel a little like the Army private who was being admonished by the colonel for not showing up for a war? The private replied, "Sir, I didn't get the memo." Of course, the private still went to the brig. ...more

August 21, 2008

The leader of the decade-long Maoist rebellion in Nepal was finally elected prime minister Friday, after four months of political wrangling. His victory sets the stage for the former rebel's toughest challenge: how to uplift the lives of 27 million people in one of the poorest countries in the world at a time of soaring food and fuel prices. ...more

August 16, 2008

Nepal's deposed king gave up his crown of peacock feathers, yak hair and jewels on Wednesday and left his palace forever. ...more

June 12, 2008