The Greeks said, “We want the room on the fourth floor. In Greece, 4 is a lucky number.” The South Korean said, “We don’t like number 4 or 13. 4 sounds like ‘death’ and 13 is an unlucky number in the west.” The tourists from the west said, “Oh, we love number 7. ...
If nicknames are a measure of popularity, rose campion wins the race: Bloody William, Catch Fly, Mullein Pink, and Lampflower (ancient Greeks supposedly used the hairs as wicks for lamps). Botanists, too, must love this plant, because they’ve been bandying Latin names about in the name ...
I also doubt if the Greeks and Romans were anywhere near as careful in copying their texts over the years as were the Hebrew scribes. The MT text was put together later but the Hebrew texts came from somewhere even though we might not have access to them now. I would venture to...
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