◎◎◎ coronavirus ⪢⪢
Coronaviruses are a large group of viruses. They consist of a core of genetic material surrounded by an envelope with protein spikes. This gives it the appearance of a crown. 'Crown' in Latin is called 'corona' and that's how these viruses get their
name.
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○○○ Ebola ⪢⪢
Ebola is caused by six species of virus with four known to cause sickness in humans and each is
named after the locations of their outbreaks. The first known species was Zaire Ebola virus discovered in 1976 near Zaire's Ebola river.
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=7206
○○○ pneumonia ⪢⪢
In December 2019, there was a cluster of pneumonia cases in China. Investigations found that it was caused by a previously unknown virus, now
named the 2019 Novel Coronavirus.
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=7218
○○○ Kathy Larsen ⪢⪢
This song was written by Bart Howard in 1954. And it was first
name, 'In Other Words', and for some reason it didn't take off at all. But in 1962 it was re
named the first five words of the lyric, 'fly me to the moon'. And it was an overnight success.
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=6843
○○○ transgender ⪢⪢
For example, "they" is used for people who identify as transgender. When former Olympic athelete Bruce Jenner took a female identity last year, he changed his
name to Caitlyn Jenner.
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=9416
○○○ would ⪢⪢
The new use of "they" would replace "he" and the word "their" would replace "his". For example, "They changed their
name to Caitlyn Jenner."
#conditional ▲→▲
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○○○ Sunday ⪢⪢
In ancient Latin Sunday was Dies Solis for the Sun God but in the Christian era it was re
named Domonicas for lord's day.
Most of the Romance languages use a desendant of that but in English and Germanic languages it is still
named for the sun. #Greece
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=10327
○○○ Tuesday ⪢⪢
Tuesday is Mars day. But the Anglo-saxons had their own sky god of war
named Tiw or Tyr in Norse Mythology known as the one-handed war god (due to his hand having been bitten off by a wolf). #front #Greece
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=10356
○○○ Pluto ⪢⪢
When _____ was discovered in 1930, it was
named the 9th planet of the solar system. More than 75 years later, that planetary status revoked and _____ was demoted to a dwarf planet.
→ revoke, demote #Greece
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○○○ for now ⪢⪢
In sleep he sang to me.
In dreams he came.
That voice which calls to me and speaks my
name.
And do I dream again?
For now I find the phantom of the opera is there inside my mind. #song #lyrics
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○○○ Bastille ⪢⪢
The wands of smoke are rising from the walls of the Bastille and through the streets of Paris runs a sense of the unreal.
The Kings have all departed.
Their servants are no where.
We burned out their mansions in the
name of Robespierre. #song #lyrics
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=19651
○○○ Anglo-Saxon ⪢⪢
For example, we took the
names for animals but while in the fields and farms where the Anglo-Saxon peasants worked, they kept the Germanic
names, on the tables where the Roman nobles dined, they got the Romance
names.
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=24879
◌◌◌ plague
Named after the emperor at the time, the Plague of Juastinian is estimated to have wiped out about half of Europe's population.
→ Yersinia Pestis, impetus, Justinian, moniker, sanitation, catapult, Byzantine, vulnerable
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