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Word of the Day for Tuesday, June 21, 2011pullulate \PUHL-yuh-leyt\, verb: 1. To exist abundantly; swarm; teem. Swept along by events, we have not had time to sketch in the comic race of courtiers who pullulate at the court of Parma and passed droll comments on the events we have been recounting. I do not want to describe it; a chaos of heterogeneous words, the body of a tiger or a bull in which teeth, organs and heads monstrously pullulate in mutual conjunction and hatred can (perhaps) be approximate images. Pullulate derives from the Latin pullulatus, "to grow or sprout," and relates to the Latin noun pullus, "a young animal." | |||||||||
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  Wait a minute, is this solstice "Midsummer's Eve?" Let us explain . . . The Gregorian calendar tells us that the summer solstice marks the longest day of the calendar year and the beginning of the summer season in the northern hemisphere. However, literature refers to a point called Midsummer's Night. So which, and when, is it? This is a celestial quandary that involves the sun, the earth and...William... | |||||||||
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