Word: origin
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...Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin (reviewed March 28, 1860): "One of the most important contributions ever made to philosophic science . . . The doctrine of progressive modification by Natural Selection . . . will, in fact, make a revolution in Natural History...
...early counting of Yarmouth shepherds (ina, mina, tethera, methera) became "Eena, meena, mina, mo"; and Westmorland's hevera,devera,dick (eight, nine and ten) is the most likely origin of "Hickory, dickory, dock." In the 18th Century, "Hot Cross Buns / One a penny / Two a penny" was a street vendor's cry. "Baa, baa, black sheep / Have you any wool?" probably dates back to the export tax imposed on wool in 1275. The "Four and twenty blackbirds, baked in a pie" goes back to the Renaissance, when live birds really were put in pies, ready...
Doomed to be as persistent as the aura of myth surrounding the origin of the cry "Rhinehart," is that Hearst expressed his art-collecting yen too early and too casually. In short, his gift to several professors of their visages etched on the bottom of chamber-pots proved that the Harvard of President Eliot did not have the hinterland sense of humor...
Doomed to be as persistent as the aura of myth surrounding the origin of the cry "Rhinehart," is that Hearst expressed his art-collecting yen too early and too casually. In short, his gift to several professors of their visages etched on the bottom of chamber-pots proved that the Harvard of President Eliot did not have the hinterland sense of humor...
...When little Gregorius is born, he is cast adrift in a little boat, with a note that tells his story but not his identity. Gregorius is saved by fishermen and grows up in a monastery. In due time, of course, he goes out in the world to unravel his origin-and meets and marries the Duchess Sibylla...