The Logan County High School Library/Media Learning Center is a primary source for information and curriculum support. The library program functions as the information center for the school by providing access to a full range of information resources and opportunities to acquire information literacy skills. The mission of the school's library is to promote reading and ensure that all students and staff become literate, life-long effective and responsible users of ideas and information.
Idiom of the Day
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A sign, either real or imagined, of ill fortune or catastrophe in the future.
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Today's Holiday
Fête des VigneronsHeld only five times during each of the 19th and 20th centuries in Vevey, Switzerland, the Fête des Vignerons is a pageant of music, dance, and song depicting the passage of the seasons in winegrowing country and honoring the most talented workers in the vineyards. It lasts more than two weeks and has a cast of thousands, drawn from the local population. The pageant takes place in an open-air theater, specially constructed each time the festival is held, with Lake Geneva and the mountains beyond as a backdrop. The festival was last held in 1999.
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Quote of the Day
As for jest, there be certain things which ought to be privileged from it—namely, religion, matters of state, great persons, any man's present business of importance, and any case that deserveth pity.
Francis Bacon
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Word Trivia
Today's topic: leaving
drawing room - A shortening of withdrawing room, the room to which the ladies withdrew, leaving the men to smoking and drinking. More... egression - The action of going out or leaving a place. More... bequeath - Etymologically, what you bequeath is what you "say" you will leave someone in your will—but the original sense "say, utter" died out, leaving the legal sense. More... exclaustration - Being expelled from or leaving a religious retreat; it is also the return to secular life by someone who has been released from their religious vows. More... |