measure - definition and synonyms. What are red words? 90% of the time, speakers of English use just 7,500 words in speech and writing. These words appear in red, and are graded with stars. One-star words are frequent, two-star words are more frequent, and three-star words are the most frequent. The thesaurus of synonyms and related words is fully integrated into the dictionary.
Viral meme says United States has 'invaded' 22 countries in the past 20 years. By Louis Jacobson on Monday, March 31st, 2014 at 11:00 a.m. A reader sent us this Facebook meme, claiming that the United States had invaded 22 separate countries in the past two decades.hat's a textbook case of aggression and conquest, regardless of the casualties and what the opinion polls say in Crimea.. Our ruling. The Facebook meme said that the United States has invaded 22 countries in the past 20 years.
Some wars were veritable incubators of future presidents: fully one-third of our presidents served in either the Civil War or Second World War. The four men who served in two wars before becoming president are Andrew Jackson, Zachary Taylor, U.S. Grant, and Dwight D. Eisenhower. It will be interesting to see if any future American presidents are veterans of the Persian Gulf War (1991) or the Iraq War (2003-2004). No doubt the president with the most colorful military career was Andrew Jackson. Already as a 13-year-old boy, he was serving in the Continental Army as a messenger.