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Jan 12, 2024 · Pomeranian dogs are descendants of robust Arctic sled dogs. The name “Pomeranian” derives from the Baltic region of Pomerania, meaning “on the sea”. The breed was originally called ‘Wolfspitz’ in Germany due to its wolf-like features and capabilities.
Nov 27, 2023 · The Pomeranian was bred from it’s Spitz breed ancestors, including the Norwegian Elkhound, the Schipperke, the German Spitz, the American Eskimo Dog and the Samoyed. Early Pomeranian’s were as big as 30 lbs and were even used as sled dogs. Later on, Queen Victoria was a huge fan of the Pomeranian and it is thought she is the reason they are ...
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Jun 6, 2008 · Mountain of Storms was released in 1968. It is a film about 5 friends who pile into an old van somewhere in California and surf, ski, and climb their way south toward the then still-mythical land of Patagonia, where they put up the first ascent of Cerro Fitz Roy’s Southwest Buttress, the so-called “California Route.”.
Aug 22, 2023 · Scholars believe that the name “Mississippi” originated from the Anishinaabe (Ojibwe or Algonquin) word “Misi-ziibi,” meaning “Great River” or “gathering of waters.”. This indigenous term was used to describe the massive river. Even back then people knew it to be one of the longest and most voluminous in North America.
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Chess took a millennium to conquer the known world. It first emerged in India in the early 7th century as chaturanga, finally reaching Iceland as skák around 1600 A.D. See Big Think’s Strange Maps piecefor an itinerary of the game and an overview of its various names across the world. As it moved west toward Europe—first passing through the Persian...
The notion of the pawn as a “foot soldier” is fairly consistent throughout the history of chess, with the Indo-European root for “foot” echoing all the way from the original Sanskrit padati, via the Latin pedester to modern French pion (and imported into modern Turkish as piyon) and English pawn. Other terms are available: In old French, pawns were...
From the very beginning of chaturanga, this piece—originally called asva, Sanskrit for “horse”—has firmly maintained its equine association. Of course, this is likely because it is the only piece that is able to jump over the heads of the other pieces. As the map shows, the variation in nomenclature is fairly limited: The piece is either named afte...
In the earliest versions of the game, this was a “chariot”—ratha in Sanskrit, rukhin Persian. Yet in many languages across Europe, this piece is known as a tower or a castle. How did that happen? One theory is that the Arabs transmitted the Persian term rukh almost unchanged to Europe, where it turned into old Italian roc or rocco. That’s virtually...
No chess piece elicits a wider range of epithets across Europe than the bishop. It starts as another elephant, except that this piece was actually called “elephant” in Sanskrit (hasti) and in Persian (pil). That was Arabized as al-fil, which was Latinized as alphilus. In French, that became fil, fol, and finally fou, which means “fool” or “jester.”...
While it may seem logical that the king has a queen by his side, that’s not how things started out. In the Indian original, this piece was the king’s “counselor” (mantri in Sanskrit). The Arabs used wazir (“vizier,” i.e., the ruler’s minister/secretary), which was Latinized to farzia, which became the French vierge(“virgin”). That was an intriguing...
Uniquely, the game’s central piece has maintained its original title throughout Europe. In the Indian game, it was called rajah, Sanskrit for “king.” The Persian equivalent shah gave rise to the name of the game itself in many other languages (e.g., échecs in French or skákin Icelandic). As is well known, “checkmate” derives from the Persian for “T...
Jun 6, 2023 · Besides being the inventor of the monkey wrench, Loring Coes was also a politician that was a member of the Massachusetts House of representatives between 1864 and 1865. The tool, which he called the “screw wrench,” was granted a patent on April 16, 1841. It was then manufactured by L. & A.
Sep 24, 2023 · Indiana’s official nickname is The Hoosier State, adopted on January 8, 1833. The State’s motto is “The Crossroads of America”. The Indiana state tree is the Tulip tree. The state flower is the peony, adopted in 1957. This ruling replaced the state’s original flower choice of zinnia that was in place from 1931 to 1957.
