"annals" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is a noun that typically refers to books or records of public events, or sometimes significant private events, such as births and deaths. For example: "The annals of this family have been kept for centuries, and tell a story of the family's travels and their many accomplishments."
In the west, of course, firestorms raged: the biggest fire in New Mexico history, and the most destructive in Colorado's annals.
The Igs spawned an accompanying journal, the Annals of Improbable Research, in turn no doubt inspiring the Journal of Universal Rejection, which rejects every submission received, and the recently launched Proceedings of the Natural Institute of Science, whose acronym (PNIS) speaks for itself.
Amid it all, the CEO of the biggest oil company in the world, Exxon, gave what may go down in the annals as the most poorly timed – not to mention, arrogant – speech in the firm's history: Rex Tillerson, speaking to the Council on Foreign Relations, admitted what his company spent many years denying, that humans were heating the planet.
Cute! See, Fey's Palin impression was a big hit for the show back in 2008, got marvellous ratings, and will long be remembered as a seminal SNL moment – but not, as one might think, because Sarah Palin was some wacky, harmless goofball destined to be a delightful footnote in the annals of election history.
She was almost frothing," he recalled, describing the day that is forever carved into the Tory annals as Wobbly Thursday.
So can it be true, as a report published in the Annals of Rheumatic Diseases suggests, that taking high doses for long periods can increase the risk of heart attacks or strokes?
This farce went down in the annals of German football as the ghostliest ghost goal ever – "Phantom-Tor" is the technical term – but hopes that this incident might push the league over the line, towards goal technology, were dashed six months later.
Indeed, all the members of this sable republic appear to have very loose notions of meum and tuum, and evince as much dexterity in appropriating the effects of their neighbours as any of the other worthies who have adorned the annals of the New Bailey [Manchester's main prison before Strangeways].
Star Trek communicators predated mobile phones by a good 20 years, while bionic limbs, video calling, touchscreen technology and CCTV were all predicted with eerie accuracy in the Mystic Meggian annals of sci-fi.
Barlow's crime may cause short-lived shame, but it could guarantee the Take That frontispiece an eternal place in the rock'n'roll annals that his music (a regular presence on David Cameron's Spotify account) might not.
IN THE verbose annals of Latin American integration, the declaration of Lima of April 2011 stands out for its rare combination of brevity and impact.
