The use of the word computer for a person who assists by doing calculations goes back to the beginning of the seventeenth century. Also, our female mathematician obsessed authors missed a golden opportunity here as one of the people who worked together with Clairaut on his calculation was the ...
When this divine mercy is discussed in theological works, it is typically described in terms that are closely associated with the concept of the feminine. It is enough here to point out that the Arabic word for “mercy,”rahma,is practically identical with the word for “womb”,rahm.God’s...
In this walk, Richards and Curl also included a number of wine bars (or as they had it, places that were “not a pub in the true sense of the word, but included as a drinking establishment”), which they chose to letter from A to F, rather than number like pubs. All but one of...
Pow-wow, from the Algonquian word for a gathering of people, began to be used in Oklahoma around 1900. Soon the dance on the Southern Plains took the form of the traditional Straight Dance: traditional dancers move proudly and sedately. On the Northern Plains each tribe developed its own un...