Word: birthed
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Richard Eyre, father of nine and author of Teaching Our Children Values, says he introduced the concept of "real/imaginary" to his children when they were little. "The birth of Jesus is real/real," he says. "It's an actual historical event that we celebrate. Invisible friends are imaginary/imaginary. Santa Claus is real/imaginary. He's in-between." Eyre says his kids were relieved to be offered an option of believing in the spirit of Christmas without having to be too literal about Santa Claus, and that the tradition of real/imaginary has been passed on to his grandchildren...
...Papa's got a brand new shirt--or two. One with a facsimile of Ernest Hemingway's birth certificate and the other with this year's annual commemorative portrait. Perfect for cleaning your trawler...
...What better way to toast the 200th anniversary of Alexander Pushkin's birth than with a Pushkin vodka and a box of Pushkin chocolates? Perhaps with a visit to Yakutia, which touted itself as the place where Pushkin's friends were exiled...
...sesquicentennial of Goethe's birth, 250 illuminated busts of the German poet were lined up in a meadow in downtown Weimar. Fans could buy stockings imprinted with his lyrics or a vibrator bearing his likeness. An exhibition of his drawings was hung at Buchenwald...
...frozen embryo implanted in a house cat. But she's not the first rare animal to use a common species' womb. A bongo antelope was born to an eland in 1984 at the Cincinnati Zoo, and two Holsteins, one in Cincinnati and one at the Bronx Zoo, have given birth to gaur, a rare species of wild cattle...