Posting a bit of news from down under. http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/nsw-bushfires-continue-to-ravage-state-as-residents-forced-to-evacuate-20131018-2vqe2.html
Apparently these are the worst bushfires we've had in a decade. And it's only October... If this is what we're getting for spring, what on earth will January bring?
New York City is believed to be home to over 800 different languages but many are spoken in very small numbers and some by only a handful and are in real danger of dying out.
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