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15 hours ago · Etymology The English word sun developed from Old English sunne. Cognates appear in other Germanic languages, including West Frisian sinne, Dutch zon, Low German Sünn, Standard German Sonne, Bavarian Sunna, Old Norse sunna, and Gothic sunnō. All these words stem from Proto-Germanic * sunnōn. This is ultimately related to the word for sun in other branches of the Indo-European language ...
15 hours ago · The usual English proper name for Earth's natural satellite is simply Moon, with a capital M. The noun moon is derived from Old English mōna, which (like all its Germanic cognates) stems from Proto-Germanic *mēnōn, which in turn comes from Proto-Indo-European *mēnsis "month" (from earlier *mēnōt, genitive *mēneses) which may be related to the verb "measure" (of time).
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15 hours ago · New York ' s mooring cables could not take the sudden strain and snapped, swinging her around stern-first towards the Titanic. A nearby tugboat, Vulcan, came to the rescue by taking New York under tow, and Titanic ' s 62-year-old Captain Edward Smith, the most senior of the White Star Line's captains, ordered her engines to be put "full astern".
- Collision with iceberg on 14 April
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- 14–15 April 1912; 111 years ago
15 hours ago · Etymology Main articles: Ēostre and Names of Easter The modern English term Easter, cognate with modern Dutch ooster and German Ostern, developed from an Old English word that usually appears in the form Ēastrun, Ēastron, or Ēastran ; but also as Ēastru, Ēastro ; and Ēastre or Ēostre. [nb 4] Bede provides the only documentary source for the etymology of the word, in his eighth-century ...
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- Celebrates the resurrection of Jesus
15 hours ago · Philosophy of religion article index. v. t. e. The afterlife or life after death is a purported existence in which the essential part of an individual's stream of consciousness or identity continues to exist after the death of their physical body. [1] The surviving essential aspect varies between belief systems; it may be some partial element ...
15 hours ago · Phobos ( / ˈfoʊbəs /; systematic designation: Mars I) is the innermost and larger of the two natural satellites of Mars, [10] the other being Deimos. The two moons were discovered in 1877 by American astronomer Asaph Hall. It is named after Phobos, the Greek god of fear and panic, who is the son of Ares (Mars) and twin brother of Deimos .
15 hours ago · Waiting for Godot ( / ˈɡɒdoʊ / ⓘ GOD-oh [1]) is a play by Irish playwright Samuel Beckett in which two characters, Vladimir (Didi) and Estragon (Gogo), engage in a variety of discussions and encounters while awaiting the titular Godot, who never arrives. [2] Waiting for Godot is Beckett's reworking of his own original French-language play ...
