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The Russia fable of the eagle and bee
Amos Townes lives in Reston he is a Mennonite who was called due to a Fentanyl overdose.
Kolach(e)
Black ice
USGS stands for United States Geological Survey
Azimuthal Equidistant
to retool their skills,
Le disque Blu-ray (Blu-ray Disc, abréviation officielle BD)
During the eight-day Jewish observance of Passover, the eating of
hametz, leavened bread, is prohibited.
Woodrow Wilson was the first U.S. President to earn a PhD.
J.S. Bach’s “Goldberg Variations” were originally designed to help an insomniac
nobleman sleep.
The narrowest bone in the leg, the fibula, is Latin for “clasp.”
Astrophysicist Lyman Spitzer first conceived of the idea of a space based
telescope, which would ultimately result in the Hubble Telescope, in 1946, 11
years before Sputnik was launched.
Often misused, the Greek term “hoi polloi” mean the common people or the
masses
Solar, lunar, equinoctial, and sidereal are all types of year in astronomy.
A modern airplane’s “black box” is actually colored bright orange to make it
easier to find among wreckage.
The tomb at the center of the Taj Mahal contains the remains of Mumtaz
Mahal and Shah Jahan.
Teddy Roosevelt tried unsuccessfully to remove “In God We Trust” from U.S.
currency because, as a devout Christian, he felt putting God on money was
sacrilege.
The Chinese Manchu dynasty introduce the queue (or pigtail) hairstyle for men
in the 1600s as a sign of submission to the emperor.
American businessman John Jacob Astor IV was the wealthiest person to die
during the sinking of the Titanic and among the wealthiest men in the world at
the time.
Abbreviated Wb, a weber is a unit of magnetic flux.
From Sanskrit, hatha literally means “force yoga.”
The U.S. graduate school system was largely modeled on that of Germany.
Over 1,000 years old, the Danish monarchy is the oldest extant monarchy in
Europe.
The X in Xmas is actually the Greek letter “Chi,” an abbreviation of the word
Christ.
The Artic gets its name from the Greek word “arctos” meaning bear because its
proximity to Ursa Major.
Lemniscate is the name of the sideways 8 used to represent infinity.
Bearskin is the name of the tall, fuzzy, black hats worn by the guards at
Buckingham Palace.
While Medusa is the most commonly known from Greek myth, her sisters
Stheno and Euryale were also gorgons.
Shakespeare characters Romeo and Juliet appear as letter codes in the NATO
phonetic alphabet.
A symbol of fertility in mythology, the pomegranate been called“Nature’s most
labor-intensive fruit.”
The absolute limit to the height of a tree is around 130 meters as it is
impossible for them to get water any higher.
With temperatures as low as -94 F., Oymyakon in Siberia is the coldest
permanently inhabited place on Earth.
Its Latin name, Helvetia, appears on the coins and stamps of Switzerland.
The name of Canada may come from a word meaning “collection of huts.”
The Canary Islands were named for their large population of wild dogs (the
Latin root of dog is canaria).
Men being clean shaven in the U.S. became popular after WWI because
returning soldiers were clean shaven so that gas masks would fit properly.
In Jewish folklore, before Eve, Adam was married to the she-demon Lilith
C2H5OH is the formula for ethyl alcohol the intoxicant in most alcoholic
beverages.
Mules are sterile because they have an odd number of chromosomes and
cannot produce viable gametes.
The Scottish surname prefix Mac means “son of.”
Elijah Bond patented the Ouija board in 1891.
