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Laborious/Easy
Laborious: adjective - assiduous, industrious,
hard-working; characterized by or involving labour or exertion; necessitating
labour in execution.
Easy: adjective - comfortable, quiet, tranquil; characterized by ease or
rest; conducive to ease or comfort; an action or task that can be completed
with little effort.
'As the eldest daughter, Dubaku,
was forced into the laborious task of providing water for the whole family by
walking two miles each way to the well, carrying two ewers, four times every
day.'
'Fadil led an easy life,
as a married man with three wives and seven daughters, he had nothing to do all
day but sit and talk with his contemporaries, whilst the women did all the work
and kept him fed and comfortable.'
1431 - King Henry VI of
England was crowned king of France; just think, if subsequent wars hadn't
intervened, the English and French would now be a single nation!
1631 - Mount Vesuvius,
Italy erupted, destroying 6 villages and killing 4,000 local inhabitants. It
was this eruption that led to the discovery of Pompeii. There is strong
evidence to suggest it will erupt again in the near future, which, with over
2,000,000 people living within the immediate vicinity, could cause significant
loss of life.
1653 - Oliver Cromwell was
sworn in as English Lord Protector, ostensibly replacing the late King Charles
I as head of the nation. As usually happens with leaders, he quickly forgot his
dislike of dictatorship and became a tyrant.
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