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Corona just means crown. We use the word for things that have, or seem to have, a crown. There’s a corona around the sun. There’s a corona a...

The King has flown the coop! Literally. Well, literally as far as flying is concerned. I understand he took a plane. He didn’t really live i...

I always had ambivalent feelings about the late Ugo Chavez, de facto President for life of Venezuela. He sometimes said and did things I f...

So Hugo Chávez is gone, despite the months of claims from the Venezuelan authorities that he was recovering. It calls to mind Spike Milliga...