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- This plant species is likely called Mother-In-Law’s Tongue because its leaves are pointed and sharp, like your mother-in-law’s tongue. But there’s no official record of when, where, or how this colloquial name originated.
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Jun 21, 2024 · Have you ever wondered, “How did the months of the year get their names?” The months’ names reflect a mix of gods, goddesses, rulers, and numbers. Discover how our calendar developed into what it is today.
3 days ago · New York’s northernmost borough takes its name from a Swedish sea captain turned farmer, Jonas Bronck.
Jun 23, 2024 · Since Trill mill stream was a substantial watercourse in the early Middle Ages, it seems probable that the lane derived its name from its position 'across the river' (ofer ie) rather than from the Overhee family recorded in the early 14th century: cf. P.N. Oxon. (E.P.N.S), i. 152.
Jun 22, 2024 · Hand and Shears: this famous City of London pub got its name owing to Bartholomew Fair. Tailors would gather in the pub the night before the fair and wave their shears announcing that the fair should begin. Magna Charta in Lowdham, Nottinghamshire, has its name spelled differently from the historic document after which it is named.
6 days ago · CROYDON. Name. The name of this place in Doomsday, is called Croindone, and is frequently so spelt in records of a later date: I can find nothing satisfactory with regard to its etymology. Situation, boundaries, and extent. Soil. Croydon is a market town, situated ten miles south of London.
3 days ago · Taiwan was referred to as Xiaodong dao ("little eastern island") and Dahui guo ("the country of Dahui"), a corruption of Tayouan, a tribe that lived on an islet near modern Tainan from which the name "Taiwan" is derived. By the late 16th century, Chinese from Fujian were settling in southwestern Taiwan.
1 day ago · While various sub-groups of the virus acquired human infectivity at different times, the present pandemic had its origins in the emergence of one specific strain – HIV-1 subgroup M – in Léopoldville in the Belgian Congo (now Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo) in the 1920s.
