Maid Marian, the Queen of the May in the morris dances, also one of Robin Hood's companions, is recorded by 1520s, perhaps from French, where Robin et Marian have been stock names for country lovers since 13c. Maid of Honor (1580s) originally was "unmarried lady of noble birth who ...
Zen Buddhist Names - ancient, old and contemporary: an online haphazard (truly a Magpie's Nest) catalog. Canberra: www.ciolek.com - Asia Pacific Research Online. http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVLPages/ZenPages/ZenNames.html Internet Archive Wayback Machine https://web.archive.org/web/*/www...
The basic Old Norse name was usually composed of two name elements, although some names had only one element. Some good examples of single-element names might include:Male Egill Biorn Fálki Úlfr Female Auðr Bera Drífa Finna Two-element names are combinations of single-elements. These ...
zwaan[zʋaːn] (swan) in Dutch,Schwan[ʃvaːn] (swan, the constellation Cygnus) in German,sonar[soˈnaɾ] (to sound, ring) in Spanish,suonàre[swoˈna.re] (to play [an instrument], to sound, to ring) in Italian, and possiblydzwon[dzvɔn] (bell) in Polish [...
She was a Polish lady who ran a good store. Forget her last name. Dad always ordered mayo on his hoagie. Whatever. For me - I like “salt, sage and oil” but to each his own. Dad used to like mayo on his cheesesteaks too. I shudder to think about THAT one but I was always...
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this guy looked like he started school during the Kennedy Administration. If I brought up the name of Red Sox great Carl Yastrzemski, he’d probably think I was talking about the Polish ambassador in Ottawa. He was still more interested in the goose, now cleaning his tailfeathers. He stood...
During Stalin’s purges the prisoners in Siberian Gulags would alleviate their suffering by brewing alcohol from boot polish. Subsequently, a freed chemist used the formula to develop liquid shoe polish and sold the method to Reckitt’s Ltd in the UK. ...
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In line with the Latin expression “sed parva forti” meaning “small but mighty,” the family Parvoviridae contains many of the smallest known viruses, some of which result in fatal or debilitating infections. In recent years, advances in metagenomic vi