The phrase pathetic fallacy is a literary term for the attribution of human emotion and conduct to things found in nature that are not human. It is a kind of personification that occurs in poetic descriptions, when, for example, clouds seem sullen, when leaves dance, or when rocks seem indifferent. The English cultural critic John Ruskin coined the term in the third volume of his work Modern Painters (1856).

An eggcorn is the alteration of a word or phrase through the mishearing or reinterpretation of one or more of its elements, creating a new phrase that is plausible when used in the same context.

The administration had informed state and local officials on Oct. 21 that it would send two teams of two Department of Justice (DOJ) monitors to the polls in the city on Election Day. No other city in Connecticut was set to receive such visits, according to the secretary of the state’s office.

A skeuomorph (also spelled skiamorph, /ˈskjuːəˌmɔːrf, ˈskjuːoʊ-/) is a derivative object that retains ornamental design cues (attributes) from structures that were necessary in the original.

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The Day of the Dead is a longstanding tradition in Mexico, but the practice of holding a parade in Mexico City began in 2016 after being inspired by the 2015 James Bond film Spectre, which featured a fictional parade at the beginning of the film. Because of the interest the film generated, the government decided to organize a similar event.

Metal whiskering is a phenomenon that occurs in electrical devices when metals form long whisker-like projections over time. Tin whiskers were noticed and documented in the vacuum tube era of electronics early in the 20th century in equipment that used pure, or almost pure, tin solder in their production.

Last Glacial Maximum refugia were places (refugia) in which humans and other species survived during the Last Glacial Period, around 25,000 to 18,000 years ago. Glacial refugia are areas where climate changes were not as severe, and where species could recolonize after deglaciation.