Word: salaria
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...Good Fight even members of the Lincoln Brigade, now 75 to 85 years old, tell of the triumph and trauma of fighting in the Spanish Civil War. They tell why they went to Spain and what they lost or gained from the experience. One nurse, Salaria K. O'Reilly explains why she left safety in America to fight the fascists in Spain. "It's my world too. I'm not going to sit back and let people do what they want. Not when it's wrong...
...salt serve to flavor and preserve food, it made a good antiseptic, which is why the Roman word for these salubrious crystals (sal) is a first cousin to Salus, the goddess of health. Of all the roads that led to Rome, one of the busiest was the Via Salaria, the salt route, over which Roman soldiers marched and merchants drove oxcarts full of the precious crystals up the Tiber from the salt pans at Ostia. A soldier's pay-consisting in part of salt-came to be known as solarium argentum, from which we derive the word salary...
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