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Monkfish was originally called goosefish, orange roughy was once called slimehead, and sea urchins were once whore’s eggs.
Rory Sutherland • Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life
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There is a reason why Latin has 25 words for a prostitute and none for a male virgin.[48] Those two facts were very much linked.
Glen Scrivener • The Air We Breathe: How We All Came to Believe in Freedom, Kindness, Progress, and Equality
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It was very natural for Suetonius to write Chrestus instead of Christus, as the former was a name in use among the Greeks and Romans. Among others, Cicero mentions a person of that name in his Fam. Ep. 11. 8.]
Suetonius • The Twelve Caesars (Annotated)
My Other Self
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An analysis of the cultural and ethnic anomalies along Central America's Caribbean coast, which deviate from typical Latin American norms.
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Now let's get on with it. The east coast of Central America is an anomaly for pretty much its whole length.
You might have an idea of what Central America feels like, its culture and society, but across each of the different countries which have a Caribbean coastline, for almost all of that coastline, there is a deviation from that cultural norm.
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