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weird, weals, wears, wetly, wedge, weave, weeds, weigh, welts, wends
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Wanda seems to be a Polish name, possibly from the Wends, an old tribe of the region. As such, it has no Hebrew meaning at all.
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There are no words using all of these letters.
The longest words possible are dense, needs, sewed, swede, weeds, weens and wends.
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On the Mayan calender, it shows whether the world will end in 2012, so it would be on a wends-day
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Absolutely not! The Wends/Sorbs were a Slavic group that lived in the Lusatia region, which is now known as East Germany. Some still reside in East Germany today, while the majority migrated to Texas and Australia.
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The Amur starts in Manchuria near Ulan Bator and wends its way almost 3,000 miles east to the Strait of Tartary, just south of the Sea of Okhotsk. For most of its way it forms the border between Russia and China
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Vanda is a literal Italian equivalent of the English name "Wanda." The pronunciation of the feminine proper noun -- whose original meaning may be "agility" or "of or relating to the Wends (Slavs in predominantly German-speaking settlements)" -- will be "VAN-da" in Italian.
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The political leanings of people are private and confidential.
It would not be appropriate to delve into such matters.
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The epitaph on Gogarty's tombstone in Connemara is a stanza from his poem "Non Dolet":
Our friends go with us as we go
Down the long path where beauty wends
Where all we love forgathers, so
Why should we fear to join our friends?
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The Wendish Crusade took place in 1147 in the Holy Roman Empire. The Kingdom of Germany led the crusade. The Wends, who were pagan, had invaded Wagria, a district in northern Germany, and the intention of the crusade was to conquer and/or convert them.
There is a link below.
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According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 5 words with the pattern WEN--. That is, five letter words with 1st letter W and 2nd letter E and 3rd letter N. In alphabetical order, they are:
wench
wends
wenge
wenny
wents
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The cast of Fernando da Gata - 1983 includes: Renato Borghi Mateus Carrieri Osly Delano John Doo Marcos Frota Elizabeth Gasper Serafim Gonzalez Vilma Guerreiro Elizabeth Hartmann Carlos Koppa Antonio Leite Paulo Leite Paulo Moreno Roberto Orosco George Otto Marcos Rinaldi Maria Rita Luiz Serra Paulo Wends
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The word setting is a verbal noun formed from the English word set, which has neither Latin or Greek origins.
It is one of a huge number of English words derived from the Germanic dialects of northern Germany and southern Denmark, brought to England in the 5th century and the following few hundred years by Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Frisians, Wends, Franks and others.
The Old English verb was settan, to put or place.
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According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 16 words with the pattern -END-. That is, five letter words with 2nd letter E and 3rd letter N and 4th letter D. In alphabetical order, they are:
bends
bendy
fends
fendy
hends
kendo
lends
mends
pends
pendu
rends
sends
tends
tendu
vends
wends
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Probably this is unanswerable, since we can't ask him directly, but it is evident that he hated a variety of groups who he either disagreed with or for racial reasons. Essentially his philosophy, which made every and any method acceptable in its achievement, was full of hatred for particular groups such as Jews, Jehovahs Witnesses, Gypsies, the Wends and other slavic minorities in Germany - essentially anyone who he believed was a hindrance to his goals. Some Christian groups such as the confessing church also were imprisoned and some, like Bonhoeffer, killed.
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According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 11 words with the pattern -ENDS. That is, five letter words with 2nd letter E and 3rd letter N and 4th letter D and 5th letter S. In alphabetical order, they are:
bends
fends
hends
lends
mends
pends
rends
sends
tends
vends
wends
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Anglo-Saxon is a culture, not a language. Anglo-Saxon people spoke Old English.
Mercian is one of several Old English dialects, which reflect the varied Germanic tribes who settled in England from the 5th century AD. These included not only Angles, Saxons and Jutes but also Wends, Frisians, Danes and others.
Mercian is distinguished by the extensive use of the vowel a instead of æ, but it also features h instead of g in many words [ example: Mercian stihle for Old English stigele].
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The Angles (Latin: Angli) were originally a Baltic Germanic tribe who moved to north-western Germany and became allied to large numbers of the Saxons, Jutes, Frisians, Wends and Franks, who all then migrated to England after the withdrawal of Roman troops from the province of Britannia. The Angles gave their name to the languages spoken by all these groups (englisc) and to the country they occupied (england, the Land of the Angles).
It is a common misconception that only Angles and Saxons migrated to England, but many other Germanic groups were equally represented.
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typically, in my experience a fully grown female gibbon weighing around the 60kg mark will cost the average joe, middle class, hard working person around £500, ($800) bearing in mind this covers shipping, upkeep, and also the fact that it is actually illegal to own a pet gibbon. Due to this illegality, expect prices to be steep. Gibbons are a larger example of the ape family, so you can expect there to be some expense when it comes to upkeep of your new friend.
Diet
You can keep your gibbon on a human diet e.g. mcdonalds, KFC, wends etc...
However it plays havoc with their digestive system so it is advisable you feed them with fresh fruit, nuts and milk etc (good sources of carbs and nutrients)
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Yes, Mercian is an Anglo-Saxon dialect. It was spoken in the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia, which covered a region in the Midlands of England during the Early Middle Ages. Mercian was one of the major dialects alongside West Saxon, Northumbrian, and Kentish.
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The original spelling of Rambo is Rambow. The (w) at the end of Rambo denotes the smallest group of the Wends - a group of people who were nomads in Germany. The french version is Rambouliett - sheep-herders in France. They breed the finest sheep; it's their wool that makes cashmere. Rambo is NOT the German spelling; it's been altered to serve the purpose of the famed movie, Rambo - played by Stallone; of Italian descent. There are a number of John Rambow's that can be found not only on the German web-sites, but in America, as they migrated to America in the !790's..
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According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 58 words with the pattern WE---. That is, five letter words with 1st letter W and 2nd letter E. In alphabetical order, they are:
weald
weals
weamb
weans
wears
weary
weave
webby
weber
wecht
wedel
wedge
wedgy
weeds
weedy
weeke
weeks
weels
weems
weens
weeny
weeps
weepy
weest
weete
weets
wefte
wefts
weids
weigh
weils
weird
weirs
weise
weize
wekas
welch
welds
welke
welks
welkt
wells
welly
welsh
welts
wembs
wench
wends
wenge
wenny
wents
weros
wersh
wests
wetas
wetly
wexed
wexes
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According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 48 words with the pattern -EN-S. That is, five letter words with 2nd letter E and 3rd letter N and 5th letter S. In alphabetical order, they are:
bends
benes
benis
bents
cents
denes
denis
dents
fends
fenis
fenks
fents
genas
genes
gents
genus
hends
hents
kenos
kents
lends
lenes
lengs
lenis
lenos
mends
menes
mengs
menus
nenes
pends
penes
penis
penks
pents
rends
rents
senas
sends
sents
tends
tenes
tents
vends
vents
venus
wends
wents
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The earliest "invaders" were the Neolithic Beaker People, who probably originated in the area that later became Portugal and arrived in Britain some time around 2,500 BC.
Another invasion was by Celtic Belgae tribes from Gaul (modern France) into parts of southern Britain, at some time around 50 BC.
The Romans made their successful conquest of parts of Britain starting in 43 AD.
When the Roman government of the province of Britannia was removed in 411 AD, the vacuum was gradually filled by immigrants from north Germany and southern Denmark. For convenience these people are called "Anglo-Saxons" but in reality they consisted of Jutes, Franks, Frisians, Wends, Angles, Saxons and others.
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After the collapse of the Roman Empire in the west, many Germanic people from outside the former Empire began to migrate westwards. This is known as the Migration Period, because of the movement of large numbers of people across Europe at the same time.
The Romans had previously hired mercenary Saxon, Frisian and Frankish troops to help defend the province of Britannia; from around 449 AD these tribes and elements of the Jutes, Angles, Wends and others decided to migrate to the rich farmlands of southern England, simply because they were mainly farming people themselves. Together, these people are known today as Anglo-Saxons.
By the 6th century they were advancing into Wiltshire and towards the good farmland in Devon and Somerset - they had already established themselves in the Midlands and the eastern counties.
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If you mean the ancient Britons who were native to the Roman province of Britannia, they did not speak Welsh. They spoke a Celtic language known today as Brythonic or Brittonic, and they were a people who called themselves Pritani or Britani probably from the early Bronze age onwards.
This language is the ancestor of Welsh and Cornish (Kernowek) but there are many linguistic differences.
When the Roman Empire withdrew its support for the province of Britannia and all military and political structure collapsed, the migrating Saxons, Jutes, Angles, Wends, Frisians, Franks and others who arrived on these shores gradually pushed many of the native population towards the west, into Wales and Cornwall.
Here their Brythonic language slowly evolved into Welsh and Cornish, but Welsh as a separate language did not exist before about 550 AD ("primitive welsh"), becoming Old Welsh by the 9th century AD.
So ancient Britons could not have spoken Welsh, since it did not exist at that time.
English...............................Brythonic.............................Welsh
river....................................abona.................................afon
water..................................dubro..................................dŵr
border.................................canto-.................................cant
fire.......................................taneto................................tân
journey...............................sent, hent...........................hynt
white...................................wen....................................gwyn
yew tree..............................ebor....................................efwr
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The modern Germans derive from a whole mix of tribes, mostly western Germanic tribes. The Germanic languages were once a part of a subunit of the Indo-European languages, out of which eventually came the Germanic, Slavic and Baltic language families. Current thought has it that this group originated somewhat southwest of modern Lithuania, in old eastern Poland (modern Belarus/Russia). The Germanic peoples eventually split into two larger groups, the eastern and western, both of which contributed immensely to the so-called Germanic invasions of the late Roman era. The eastern Germanic peoples have since disappeared, either by destruction, or assimilation.
Modern Germany derives from many different Germanic tribes from Scandinavia, eastern Europe, and etc. As well, ancient Germania had many non-Germanic peoples - Celts, Slavs, and other peoples like the fabled Wends about whom we know almost nothing. If we include old Prussia, then Balts and Finns must also be included. In other words, like every modern European society, Germany's ethnic origins are very eclectic.
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England came about as a result of the unification of a number of small Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, such as Wessex, Mercia, and Northumbria, which fought with each other. If we are dealing with the English as begin people after that time, their primary enemies were the Danes and other Vikings, the Welsh, Normans, the Scots, and France. There were a number of others, but really none that would be likely to invade.
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ten, hen, men, den, when, then
Ben, den, hen, ken, men, ten
1 syllable
behn behne ben benn benne bren brenn chen chien dehn dehne den denn denne en fehn fen fenn gen. glen glenn gren Gwen hehn hen henn henne hren jen jenn jenne kehn kehne ken kenn kren krenn lehn lehne len men menn menne n n. pen penh penn prehn prenn rehn ren renn renne schwenn sen senn senne shen sten sven ten tenn then tien venn venne wen when wren wrenn yen yuen zen
2 syllables
again amen antenne beauchesne cayenne courchesne derouen duchenne dufresne jiawen lawmen magten ming-jen nguyen oilmen pitchmen po-jen salmen sheng-fen teng-wen un uren
3 syllables
adrienne cnn georgienne handymen LPN madeleine patrolmen sdn tienanmen vannguyen
4 syllables
comedienne knin sebastiane
5 syllables
asean cnnfn
the two words that ryhme with pen are hen and den
den,can
den
hen
men
ten
yen
zen
inn
fun
gun
nun
pun
run
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4-letter words
adds, ands, anes, anew, awed, awee, awes, awns, awny, ayes, dads, dawn, daws, days, dead, dean, deed, dees, dene, dens, deny, dews, dewy, deys, dyad, dyed, dyes, dyne, ease, easy, eddy, ends, ewes, eyas, eyed, eyen, eyes, eyne, nays, need, news, sade, sand, sane, sawn, seed, seen, send, sene, sewn, snaw, sned, snye, swan, sway, syne, wade, wads, wady, waes, wand, wane, wans, wany, ways, wean, weds, weed, ween, wees, wend, wens, wyes, wynd, wyns, yawn, yaws, yean, yeas, yens, yews
5-letter words
aedes, awned, dandy, dawed, dawen, dawns, deads, deans, deeds, deedy, denes, dense, dewan, dewed, dyads, dynes, eased, ended, needs, needy, newsy, sandy, saned, sawed, sedan, seedy, sewan, sewed, swede, waddy, waded, wades, wands, waned, wanes, waney, weans, weeds, weedy, weens, weeny, wends, wynds, yawed, yawns, yeans
6-letter words
dawned, deaden, deaned, dedans, deewan, desand, dewans, sadden, sanded, sawney, sended, snawed, swayed, sweeny, weaned, weensy, wended, yawned, yeaned
7-letter words
deadens, deewans, endways
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Napoleon (Died in 1821)
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher (Prussian general)
Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette (French Revolution)
Isaac Newton
Immanuel Kant (philosopher)
* John Adams, American statesman
* Samuel Adams, American statesman
* Ahmad Shah Abdali, Afghan King
* Ahmed III, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
* Hyder Ali, Ruler of Mysore
* Ethan Allen, American Revolutionary Army
* Anne, Queen of Great Britain
* Marie Antoinette, Austrian-born Queen of France
* Augustus III, Elector of Saxony, King of Poland, and Grand Duke of Lithuania
* Aurangzeb, Mughal Emperor
* Boromakot, King of Ayutthaya
* Boromaracha V, King of Ayutthaya
* William Cavendish, Anglo-Irish politician
* John Carteret, Anglo-Irish politician
* Catherine the Great, Tsaritsa of Russia
* Charles III, King of Spain, Naples, and Sicily
* Charles VI, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, King of Bohemia and Hungary
* Charles XII, King of Sweden, the Goths and the Wends;
* Charlotte Corday, French revolutionary
* Georges Danton, French revolutionary leader
* Farrukhsiyar, Emperor of Mughal
* Ferdinand I, King of Naples, Sicily, and the Two Sicilies
* Benjamin Franklin, American leader, scientist and statesman
* Juan Franscisco, Spanish naval officer and explorer
* Adolf Frederick, King of Sweden, the Goths and the Wends
* Frederick the Great, King of Prussia
* George I, King of Great Britain and Ireland
* George II, King of Great Britain and Ireland
* George III, King of Great Britain and Ireland
* Robert Gray, American revolutionary, merchant, and explorer
* Gustav III, King of Sweden, the Goths and the Wends
* Gyeongjong, King of Joseon Dynasty
* Abdul Hamid I, Sultan of Ottoman Empire
* Alexander Hamilton, American statesman
* Patrick Henry, American statesman
* Emperor Higashiyama, Emperor of Japan
* John Jay, American statesman
* Thomas Jefferson, American statesman
* Jeongjo, King of Joseon Dynasty
* John Paul Jones, American naval commander
* Joseph I, King of Portugal
* Joseph II, Austrian Emperor
* Kangxi Emperor, Chinese Emperor
* Karim Khan, Shah of Iran and King of Persia
* Marquis de Lafayette, Continental Army officer
* Louis XIV, King of France
* Louis XV, King of France
* Louis XVI, King of France
* Louis XVII, imprisoned King of France, never ruled
* James Madison, American statesman
* Madhavrao I, Peshwa/Prime Minister of Maratha Empire
* Madhavrao I Scindia, Marathan leader
* Mahmud I, Sultan of Ottoman Empire
* Alessandro Malaspina, Spanish explorer
* George Mason, American statesman
* Michikinikwa, Miami chief and warrior
* José Moñino y Redondo, Spanish statesman
* Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, French officer
* Mustafa III, Sultan of Ottoman Empire
* Nadir Shah, King of Persia
* Nakamikado, Emperor of Japan
* Horatio Nelson, British admiral
* Nanasaheb, Peshwa/Prime Minister of Maratha Empire
* Shivappa Nayaka, King of Keladi Nayaka
* Osman III, Sultan of Ottaman Empire
* Peter I (Peter the Great), Tsar of Russian
* Philip V, King of Spain
* Pontiac, Ottawa chief and warrior
* Qianlong, Emperor of China
* Rajaram II of Satara, Monarch of the Maratha Confederacy
* Francis II Rákóczi, Prince of Hungary and Transylvania, revolutionary leader
* Tadeusz Rejtan, Polish politician
* Paul Revere, American revolutionary leader and silversmith
* Maximilien Robespierre, French revolutionary leader
* Betsy Ross, American flag maker
* Shah Rukh of Persia, King of Persia.
* John Russell, Anglo-Irish politician
* Lionel Sackville, Anglo-Irish politician
* Sebastião de Melo, Prime Minister of Portugal
* Chattrapati Shahu, Emperor of Maratha Empire
* Selim III, Sultan of Ottoman Empire
* Charles Edward Stuart, English Jacobite exile
* Sukjong, King of Joseon Dynasty
* Alexander Suvorov, Russian military leader
* Maria Theresa, Austrian Empress
* Tokugawa Ieharu, Japanese Shogun
* Tokugawa Ienobu, Japanese Shogun
* Tokugawa Ieshige, Japanese Shogun
* Tokugawa Ietsugu, Japanese Shogun
* Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, Japanese Shogun
* Tokugawa Yoshimune, Japanese Shogun
* Toussaint L'Ouverture, Haitian revolutionary leader
* Túpac Amaru II, Peruvian revolutionary
* George Vancouver, British Captain and explorer
* Robert Walpole, Prime Minister of Great Britain
* George Washington, American general and first President of the United States
* James Wolfe, British officer
* Yeongjo, King of Joseon Dynasty
hope that helps! lol
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It may seem strange that the Serbian noun 'grlo' is related to English 'girl', and it may seem even stranger to speculate that girl has come from the corresponding Proto-Slavic word. However, it all becomes much clearer and plausible if we know that 'grlo' in Serbian also denotes a head of cattle, usually a horse, and also a household member. Aditionally, the original meaning of the noun girl was "child in general" (boy or girl, and that usually marked with plural). The emergence of meaning 'cheljade' (members of a household) in relation to the noun 'grlo' (neck in Serbian) is motivated in Serbian. Proto-IndoEuropean root *guer- gained its expansion -dlo only in BaltoSlavic languages (ProtoSlavic *grъdlo (grdlo) > O.C.S. гръло (grlo), Russian горло (gorlo), Polish gardlo, Old Prussian gircele). In Germanic languages an expected shift had occured: Old High German querka, querechela 'throat', Old Islandic kuerk 'throat, craw'. In Latin gurgulio 'throat, trachea' has l, but doesn't have the meaning of a housold member and could not produce meaning 'girl'. The explanation for this is quite down-to-earth and is verifiable by geography and history. Namely, what we have here is probably the case of Germanic loanword from some Slavic dialect from the north of today's East Germany, the area where West Slavs (Sorbs or Wends) and Anglo-Saxons had been in direct contact! Source of information: SRPSKO - ENGLESKI REČNIK ETIMOLOŠKIH PAROVA by Boris Hlebec
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According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 159 words with the pattern -EN--. That is, five letter words with 2nd letter E and 3rd letter N. In alphabetical order, they are:
bench
bends
bendy
benes
benet
benis
benne
benni
benny
bento
bents
benty
cense
cento
cents
centu
denar
denay
denes
denet
denim
denis
dense
dents
fence
fends
fendy
fenis
fenks
fenny
fents
genal
genas
genes
genet
genic
genie
genii
genip
genny
genoa
genom
genre
genro
gents
genty
genua
genus
hence
hends
henge
henna
henny
henry
hents
jenny
kenaf
kench
kendo
kenos
kente
kents
lends
lenes
lengs
lenis
lenos
lense
lenti
lento
menad
mends
mened
menes
menge
mengs
mensa
mense
mensh
menta
mento
menus
nenes
penal
pence
pends
pendu
pened
penes
pengo
penie
penis
penks
penna
penne
penni
penny
pents
renal
renay
rends
renew
reney
renga
renig
renin
renne
rente
rents
senas
sends
sengi
senna
senor
sensa
sense
sensi
sente
senti
sents
senvy
senza
tench
tends
tendu
tenes
tenet
tenge
tenia
tenne
tenno
tenny
tenon
tenor
tense
tenth
tents
tenty
tenue
venae
venal
vends
veney
venge
venin
venom
vents
venue
venus
wench
wends
wenge
wenny
wents
xenia
xenic
xenon
yenta
yente
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It might seem odd that the Serbian noun 'grlo' (in Cyrillic грло) is related to English 'girl', and it may seem even more peculiar to speculate that girl comes from the corresponding Proto-Slavic word. This reasoning is quite plausible if we take into account that 'grlo' in Serbian also denotes a head of cattle, usually a horse, and also a household member.
Additionally, the original meaning of the noun girl was "child in general" (boy or girl, and that usually marked with plural). The emergence of meaning 'čeljade' (members of a household) in relation to the noun 'grlo' (neck in Serbian) is motivated in Serbian. Proto-IndoEuropean root *guer- gained its expansion -dlo only in BaltoSlavic languages (ProtoSlavic *grъdlo > O.C.S. гръло, Russian горло, Polish gardlo, Old Prussian gircele). In Germanic languages an expected shift had occurred: Old High German querka, querechela 'throat', Old Islandic kuerk 'throat, craw'. In Latin gurgulio 'throat, trachea' has l, but doesn't have the meaning of a household member and could not have produced the meaning ‘girl’.
The explanation for this is quite sensible and is verifiable by historical and geographic sources. Namely, this is probably the case of a Germanic loanword from a Slavic dialect from the north of today's East Germany, the area where West Slavs (Sorbs or Wends) and Anglo-Saxons had been in direct contact.
The above-mentioned circumstances would explain why etymological dictionaries fail to pinpoint the most probable origin of some frequent English words such as boy, girl, berry, glad, etc. – they mostly neglect the Slavic influence on the Anglo-Saxon language stratum.
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I guess you are talking about men's costume, since women wore dresses. Medieval men's costume evolved only very slowly and it was essentially a continuation of late Roman fashions. Tunics had been worn by Celts, Romans, Greeks, Persians, Dacians, Spanish and other men of the Ancient world for thousands of years, sometimes alone and sometimes with additional leg-coverings.
The Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Frisians, Wends, Franks and other Germanic people who migrated to England during the 5th and 6th centuries AD wore tunics and trousers (bracae) because that was part of their ancient culture. The Romanised Celts already in England wore almost exactly the same.
Men continued to wear tunics throughout the medieval period, up to about 1500. So men have historically worn tunics for very much longer than they have not been wearing them. It's simply a matter of current fashions.
The medieval era's fashion was known for its tunics specially worn by men. Fashion in the Middle Ages was determined by the social class people were belonging to. During the Middle Ages, the people wore clothes that were influenced by the styles of clothing that was worn by the kings and queens of the kingdom. As with everything else in the Middle Ages, clothing that was worn was depicted by your social stance in the kingdom.
The basic garment worn by medieval men and women was "tunic" as that was the most simple cloth to wear. Women wore their tunics long, usually to mid-calf, which made them, essentially, dresses and men wore tunics up to their knees.
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No. Edward Herrmann is not a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (commonly called the "Mormon" Church). His wife is LDS (Mormon) a faith he respects. He himself is actually a Roman Catholic having converted to that faith after years of study and searching for a spiritual home. Most of his Roman Catholic friends were surprised he became a Catholic voluntarily. It is a difficult path to walk if one is a cradle Catholic but to enter upon it by choice? Nevertheless he practices the ancient Faith with some care.
It may seem contradictory to his Catholic religion, but his main interest philosophically is in the writings of Alfred North Whitehead, the English logician and metaphysician who wrote most of his seminal works while teaching at Harvard in the 20's and 30's. One of the most fruitful, profound and humane minds of the 20th Century, he is at the center of the movement generally known as Process Philosophy. While most of the brilliant young men and women of the first half of the century followed Wittgenstein out of Hamlin into the intellectual sea of no return crying "death to philosophy!", Whiteheads work was gradually eclipsed. As he himself wrote:
"Sceptics and believers are all alike. At this moment scientists and sceptics are the leading dogmatists. Advance in detail is admitted. Fundamental novelty is barred. This dogmatic common sense is the death of philosophic adventure. The Universe is vast."
He points out that science is fundamentally a methodology, one of humankind's greatest achievements. But as a habit of mind it prohibits the search for value, aim and meaning in the Universe. It is precisely because Whitehead laid so much emphasis on meaning and value that he evolved a metaphysical scheme that included God. The primordial nature of God is a hierarchy of value. This aspect of the nature of God is persuasive and not compelling. It constitutes what he calls "a lure to the good." He is under no illusion that the Good and Religion are synonymous. Quite the contrary. Yet no intellectually respectable philosopher of the past century has given such weight to the fundamental concerns of religion. As he puts it: Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness.
The new century may witnessing a turning of the worm, though I may be wrong. European philosophers who historically have found English philosophy a bit too comforting, not intellectually cruel enough, are beginning to find A.N.W. complex enough to be intriguing. At any rate Wittgenstein has less of a hold on current thought, though he has done great damage. There may be hope for the re-emergence of the classic search for meaning in the Creation. That this search was largely abandoned as futile after WW I is understandable. Indeed, the "Tractatus" was written under shell fire on the Italian Front. Smug assumptions of a benign Universe were very hard to sustain. Science is so much easier and more exciting, and logic so much more amenable to clear conclusions. But the gnawing question remains: Why? This is where Process Philosophy and Religion overlap and where E. Herrmann wends his solitary way.
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As I might be the "source" of this question, or at least one of the sources, her we go! ;-)
Your question holds a postulate: "Vikings rowed in shifts....". We do not actually know this, but my theory which I presented in a Danish daily newspaper on the 26th of January 1998 ( http://www.information.dk/16162 , later on the internet http://www.abc.se/~pa/publ/vikskift.htm and still later in English http://www.abc.se/~pa/publ/vikshift.htm ), I argued that there is a lingual connection between "rowing in shift" and the noun "viking". What is indisputeable is, that there in Northern Europe is an old sea measure, which means the distance between shifting rowers. In Low German this measure is called "Weke Sees", in Old Norse "vika sjóvar", in Danish "uge søs", in Norwegian "ukesøs", in Swedish both "veckusjö" and "sjövika". The Dutch and e. g. the Wends most likely have had their own names for this sea measure! The arguing is that from ON "vik" (the Eng. noun "turn" or "shift") is "vikja" (the Eng. verb "turn" or "shift") derived. From that the ON activity noun "viking" (the Eng. "turning" or shifting") is derived and from that the ON noun "vikingr" (the man who performed the "viking" activity) is derived! Compare with e. g. "sail" (the noun) => "sail" (the verb) => "sailing" => "sailor"!
Even if ON "vikingr" thus means "a man undertaking a long voyage", we don't today know how old and "archaic" the connection between ON "vik" and ON "vikingr" was at the period of time, which we today call the "Viking Age"! In this area people were rarely literate and it is quite possible that the vikings (the pirates) had no knowledge of the etymology of the ON "vikingr"!
Some years after I had written my article on this subject, I learnt that the Swedish admiral and chamberlain Bertil Daggfeldt had written this article http://fornvannen.se/pdf/1980talet/1983_092.pdf already 1983. Daggfeldt's article were very little spread among Swedish philoIogists and no one really understood how important it was. I contacted Bertil Daggfeldt and got his permission to also put his article on the net ( http://www.abc.se/~pa/publ/vik-rodd.htm . Later I also translated his article in to English, http://www.abc.se/~pa/publ/vik-oar.htm , and after that philologists from many countries began discussing the rower shifting etymology seriously!
So returning to your question! The viking ships, both the long boat and other types could be propelled by rowers alone; this was a great advantage in critical situations, but normally the vikings sailed or waited for favourable winds. In those cases, where the ship was propelled by oars, one has to consider the length of th ON "vika sjóvar". The shift would then probably have been two hours; Scolars have also been postulating that a shift was 1000 oar strokes, but this is not documented!
John Larsson, Hillerød, Denmark ( jodalela@gmail.com )
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No. Edward Herrmann is not a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (commonly called the "Mormon" Church). His wife is LDS (Mormon) a faith he respects. He himself is actually a Roman Catholic having converted to that faith after years of study and searching for a spiritual home. Most of his Roman Catholic friends were surprised he became a Catholic voluntarily. It is a difficult path to walk if one is a cradle Catholic but to enter upon it by choice? Nevertheless he practices the ancient Faith with some care.
It may seem contradictory to his Catholic religion, but his main interest philosophically is in the writings of Alfred North Whitehead, the English logician and metaphysician who wrote most of his seminal works while teaching at Harvard in the 20's and 30's. One of the most fruitful, profound and humane minds of the 20th Century, he is at the center of the movement generally known as Process Philosophy. While most of the brilliant young men and women of the first half of the century followed Wittgenstein out of Hamlin into the intellectual sea of no return crying "death to philosophy!", Whiteheads work was gradually eclipsed. As he himself wrote:
"Sceptics and believers are all alike. At this moment scientists and sceptics are the leading dogmatists. Advance in detail is admitted. Fundamental novelty is barred. This dogmatic common sense is the death of philosophic adventure. The Universe is vast."
He points out that science is fundamentally a methodology, one of humankind's greatest achievements. But as a habit of mind it prohibits the search for value, aim and meaning in the Universe. It is precisely because Whitehead laid so much emphasis on meaning and value that he evolved a metaphysical scheme that included God. The primordial nature of God is a hierarchy of value. This aspect of the nature of God is persuasive and not compelling. It constitutes what he calls "a lure to the good." He is under no illusion that the Good and Religion are synonymous. Quite the contrary. Yet no intellectually respectable philosopher of the past century has given such weight to the fundamental concerns of religion. As he puts it: Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness.
The new century may witnessing a turning of the worm, though I may be wrong. European philosophers who historically have found English philosophy a bit too comforting, not intellectually cruel enough, are beginning to find A.N.W. complex enough to be intriguing. At any rate Wittgenstein has less of a hold on current thought, though he has done great damage. There may be hope for the re-emergence of the classic search for meaning in the Creation. That this search was largely abandoned as futile after WW I is understandable. Indeed, the "Tractatus" was written under shell fire on the Italian Front. Smug assumptions of a benign Universe were very hard to sustain. Science is so much easier and more exciting, and logic so much more amenable to clear conclusions. But the gnawing question remains: Why? This is where Process Philosophy and Religion overlap and where E. Herrmann wends his solitary way.
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No. Edward Herrmann is not a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (commonly called the "Mormon" Church). His wife is LDS (Mormon) a faith he respects. He himself is actually a Roman Catholic having converted to that faith after years of study and searching for a spiritual home. Most of his Roman Catholic friends were surprised he became a Catholic voluntarily. It is a difficult path to walk if one is a cradle Catholic but to enter upon it by choice? Nevertheless he practices the ancient Faith with some care.
It may seem contradictory to his Catholic religion, but his main interest philosophically is in the writings of Alfred North Whitehead, the English logician and metaphysician who wrote most of his seminal works while teaching at Harvard in the 20's and 30's. One of the most fruitful, profound and humane minds of the 20th Century, he is at the center of the movement generally known as Process Philosophy. While most of the brilliant young men and women of the first half of the century followed Wittgenstein out of Hamlin into the intellectual sea of no return crying "death to philosophy!", Whiteheads work was gradually eclipsed. As he himself wrote:
"Sceptics and believers are all alike. At this moment scientists and sceptics are the leading dogmatists. Advance in detail is admitted. Fundamental novelty is barred. This dogmatic common sense is the death of philosophic adventure. The Universe is vast."
He points out that science is fundamentally a methodology, one of humankind's greatest achievements. But as a habit of mind it prohibits the search for value, aim and meaning in the Universe. It is precisely because Whitehead laid so much emphasis on meaning and value that he evolved a metaphysical scheme that included God. The primordial nature of God is a hierarchy of value. This aspect of the nature of God is persuasive and not compelling. It constitutes what he calls "a lure to the good." He is under no illusion that the Good and Religion are synonymous. Quite the contrary. Yet no intellectually respectable philosopher of the past century has given such weight to the fundamental concerns of religion. As he puts it: Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness.
The new century may witnessing a turning of the worm, though I may be wrong. European philosophers who historically have found English philosophy a bit too comforting, not intellectually cruel enough, are beginning to find A.N.W. complex enough to be intriguing. At any rate Wittgenstein has less of a hold on current thought, though he has done great damage. There may be hope for the re-emergence of the classic search for meaning in the Creation. That this search was largely abandoned as futile after WW I is understandable. Indeed, the "Tractatus" was written under shell fire on the Italian Front. Smug assumptions of a benign Universe were very hard to sustain. Science is so much easier and more exciting, and logic so much more amenable to clear conclusions. But the gnawing question remains: Why? This is where Process Philosophy and Religion overlap and where E. Herrmann wends his solitary way.
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yes. Slav. it means: slav - 6 dictionary result
/slɑv, slæv/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [slahv, slav] Show IPA-noun 1. one of a group of peoples in eastern, southeastern, and central Europe, including the Russians and Ruthenians (Eastern Slavs), the Bulgars, Serbs, Croats, Slavonians, Slovenes, etc. (Southern Slavs), and the Poles, Czechs, Moravians, Slovaks, etc. (Western Slavs).
-adjective 2. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the Slavs; Slavic.
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1350-1400; < ML Slāvus, var. of Sclāvus, akin to LGk Sklábos < a Slavic ethnonym, perh. orig. a name for all Slavic tribes (cf. Slovak, Slovene, ORuss Slověně an East Slavic tribe); r. ME Sclave < ML Sclāvus
Slavic.
Also, Slav.
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n. A member of one of the Slavic-speaking peoples of eastern Europe.
[Middle English Sclave, from Medieval Latin Sclāvus, from Late Greek Sklabos, alteration of Old Slavic Slověninŭ.]
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Slav Slav\, n.;pl. Slavs. [A word originally meaning, intelligible, and used to contrast the people so called with foreigners who spoke languages unintelligible to the Slavs; akin to OSlav. slovo a word, slava fame, Skr. [,c]ru to hear. Cf. Loud.] (Ethnol.) One of a race of people occupying a large part of Eastern and Northern Europe, including the Russians, Bulgarians, Roumanians, Servo-Croats, Slovenes, Poles, Czechs, Wends or Sorbs, Slovaks, etc. [Written also Slave, and Sclav.]
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slav
adjective 1. speaking a Slavic language; "the Slav population of Georgia"
noun 1. any member of the people of eastern Europe or Asian Russia who speak a Slavonic language
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Slav
1387, Sclave, from M.L. Sclavus (c.800), from Byzantine Gk. Sklabos (c.580), from O.Slav. Sloveninu "a Slav," probably related to slovo "word, speech," which suggests the name originally meant member of a speech community (cf. O.C.S. Nemici "Germans," related to nemu "dumb;" and cf. O.E. þeode, which meant both "race" and "language"). Identical with the -slav in personal names (e.g. Rus. Miroslav, lit. "peaceful fame;" Mstislav, lit. "vengeful fame;" Jaroslav, lit. "famed for fury;" Czech Bohuslav, lit. "God's glory;" and cf. Wenceslas). Spelled Slave c.1788-1866, infl. by Fr. and Ger. Slave. Adj. Slavic is attested from 1813; earlier Slavonic (c.1645), from Slavonia, a region of Croatia.
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The Romanised aristocracies continued to rule the various tribes and petty kingdoms. In the warfare between them, they imported mercenaries from Germania, who became so numerous and powerful that they progressively took control, bringing in more of their ilk in the process. This was the Angles, Saxons and Jutes takeover from the Britons, eventually establishing the Germainc petty kingdoms which came to make up England (Angle-land). The Picts, Scots, Welsh and Irish maintained their own areas, but Viking intrusions also impacted on them and particularly the eastern Germanic kingdoms bordering the North Sea.
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It would probablybe best to visit and gym and make a session with a personal trainer. He'll be able to set you up with a workout routine, and better yet, make sure you're able to do the exercise properly.
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If you're on the way to San Francisco, be sure to pack your most comfortable walking shoes. An adventurous trek awaits you, as you explore the hills of this welcoming Northern California town. Prepare for sensational dining, picturesque views and excitement around every corner-
The best place to start exploring San Francisco is aboard their world famous Cable Cars, often considered San Francisco's moving landmark. Try not to fall off when the driver screeches his way down Lombard Street. While not the steepest street in this city, Lombard is known as one of the 'crookedest' streets, especially the part below Hyde Street. Enjoy the incredible views of the San Francisco Bay while the cable car wends its way down to the waterfront.
Start your day at Fisherman's Wharf and Pier 39, along the Embarcadero - the main street of this beautiful waterfront district. Street performers entertain and souvenir shops beckon, but one attraction you will not want to miss is the loud bunch of playful seals that congregate just off Fisherman's Wharf. A couple of platoons have been taken over by these basking seals, and you can watch them sunbathe, swim, and fight from the pier. It is an amazingly entertaining show, and entirely free! While sometimes labeled a tourist trap, this colorful area is still the best place to grab some a hot cup of clam chowder in a sourdough bowl.
Once an illustrious chocolate factory, now a one-of-a-kind urban retail oasis, Ghirardelli Square is one of San Francisco's most precious jewels. Get in some shopping here before catching the ferry to Alcatraz, the former prison that remains one of the city's most popular attractions. Visitors can spend as long as they wish on self-guided tours of the cells that once housed criminals like Al Capone.
After Alcatraz, hail a cab and ask the driver to take you to the Golden Gate Bridge. No trip to San Francisco would be complete without a walk across this 8,891 foot-long marvel of engineering. Not only is this bridge one of the most photographed sites in the world, it offers awe-inspiring views of the bay and the adjacent hills that lead into Sausalito. Spend the afternoon walking the bridge and then wind your way into this waterfront village. Take in the art galleries, boutiques and scenic vistas, enjoy a fabulous seafood dinner at historic Cliff House, and take the Golden Gate Ferry back towards the neon lights of Ghirardelli Square.
Hop on a Powell Line Cable Car and be sure to get off at Union Square. One of the city's three original parks, this elegant square is ringed with tempting shops and the city's best hotels, including Sir Francis Drake Hotel. Shoppers will find a great selection of high end shops, like Tiffany & Co, Prada, and Louis Vuitton. The nearby theatre district and Museum of Modern Art are also nearby, offering a cultural flavor of this amazing city.
Many cities have a Chinatown of their own, but none are quite like San Francisco's. With some of the best Chinese food you will find anywhere, San Francisco's Chinatown has a flavor all its own. Catch a glimpse of the 'real Chinatown' in its side streets, shops and open air markets.
There is far more to do while in San Francisco, including museums, great restaurants, and entertainment, so be sure to set aside enough time to take it all in.
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According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 451 words with the pattern ---D-. That is, five letter words with 4th letter D. In alphabetical order, they are:
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Natural Features Are:
- Glymur: Iceland's tallest waterfall is nimble and graceful: Streamlets descend like ribbons of a maypole into a fathomless canyon mantled in bird nests and lush mosses. The hike there is somewhat treacherous, but those who brave it are rewarded with enchanting scenery -- and possibly total solitude -- all within easy range of Reykjavik.
- Gullfoss: This astounding waterfall crowns and climaxes the "Golden Circle," Iceland's most popular day tour from the capital. Gullfoss looks almost too perfectly landscaped to be real: The Hvita river hurtles over a low tier, turns 90 degrees, plunges into a cloud of spray, and shimmies offstage through a picturesque gorge. Clear skies guarantee a rainbow.
- Blue Lagoon: The central activity at this spa -- Iceland's top tourist attraction -- is bathing in a shallow, opaque, blue-green lagoon amid a jet-black lava field and smearing white silica mud all over yourself. The lagoon was artificially created from pumped-in seawater and runoff from a geothermal power plant -- not exactly a natural wonder, but it could make you feel like one.
- Raufarholshellir: With the right preparations and precautions, anyone can just saunter right into this lava-tube cave and wander more than a kilometer (3/4 mile) to its darkest depths, past eerie ice candles and tortured lava formations.
- Latrabjarg: These colossal sea cliffs at Iceland's westernmost point prove that the "ends of the earth" come with a bang, not a whimper. The sheer volume of birds is unbelievable, and the puffins are particularly willing to have their picture taken.
- Hornbjarg: These sea cliffs in Iceland's far northwest aren't easy to reach, but pilgrims are treated to the most arresting sight on the country's entire coastline. An undulating, razor-backed ridge is etched against the sky: On its inland side, a steep slope scoops down to a meadowed plateau; on its opposite side is a sheer 534m (1,752-ft.) drop to the sea.
- Aldeyjarfoss: In northwest Iceland, at the doorstep of the desolate highlands, these pummeling falls crash into a bizarre theater of columnar basalt. If you saw it in a science fiction movie, you might think they were overdoing it.
- Hverfell: Of all the monuments to Iceland's volcanism, this tephra explosion crater near Myvatn is the most monolithic: a jet-black bowl of humbling proportions, with a stark, elemental authority.
- Leirhnjukur: In a country with no shortage of primordial, surreal landscapes, this lava field in the Krafla caldera of northeast Iceland out-weirds them all. An easy trail wends its way among steaming clefts, each revealing a prismatic netherworld of mosses and minerals.
- Dettifoss: Europe's mightiest waterfall, located in northeast Iceland's Jokulsargljufur National Park, is a massive curtain of milky-gray glacial water thundering over a 44m (144-ft.) precipice. To stand next to it is as mesmerizing as it is bone rattling.
- Fja?rargljufur: Iceland has several dramatic gorges, but this one's spiky crags and vertiginous ledges virtually summon the mystics and landscape painters. Fja?rargljufur is close to the Ring Road, near the village of Kirkjub?jarklaustur in south Iceland, and the trail along the rim is a breeze.
- Laki Craters: This monstrous row of over a hundred craters, lined up along a 25km (16-mile) fissure, is scar tissue from the most catastrophic volcanic eruption in Iceland's history. Velvety coatings of grey-green moss soften Laki's terrible, bleak beauty.
- Jokulsarlon: Hundreds of sediment-streaked, blue-tinted icebergs, seemingly the work of some mad sculptor, waltz around this surreal glacial lagoon in the southeast, while seals join in the carnival procession.
- Askja: This staggering whorl of volcanic mountains, circling an 8km-wide (5 mile) bowl formed by collapsed magma chambers, is one of Earth's grandest pockmarks and the most sought-out destination in Iceland's desolate highland interior. Visitors can swim in a warm, opaque blue-green pond at the bottom of a steep crater: a real "if my friends could see me now" moment.
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Asparagus that almost resemble the traditional spring budding tulips, crocuses, and other heralds of spring, has it's own beauty--in its amazing nutrition. Whether you consider asparagus to be sensual looking, or pungent smelling, or it's already part of your diet, there's a lot to love about this wonderful stalk of nutrition. Considered to be a perennial garden plant, it does belong to the Lily family.
Interestingly enough, the asparagus looks sturdy but since Ancient times is considered a delicacy. It's long history goes back to Indian, and Asia . Some species have long been used in Ayurvedic medicine. Cultivation of asparagus dates back to early Egypt, Greece and Rome. Then became popular in France in the 18th century. It is widely grown here in the U.S.
The Benefits
Asparagus has been used both medicinally and as a prized vegetable. Research has shown evidence that asparagus contains phytonutrients, and saponins. Saponins in food have been shown in many studies to be anti-inflammatory and especially anti cancer. They also contribute to improved blood pressure, improved management of blood fat levels and improved blood sugar control. Saponins have more recently been shown to be an aid in Lou Gehrig's disease, a terrible neurodegenerative disease.
Asparagus has also recently been shown to contain inulin that is also a major importance to the digestive tract, for better nutrient absorption, a lower risk for colon cancer, and even an aid to the risk of allergy.
And there's more. Asparagus has anti-oxidants These include Vitamin C, beta-carotenes and a most important antioxidant-glutathione or GSH. This antioxidant has been studied extensively of late. These anti-inflammatory and antioxidant nutrients are touted as the best things people can do to lower risk for type 2 diabetes and heart disease, and cancer. The alphabet of vitamins still goes on with amazing amounts of B vitamins, which are most important for healthy blood sugar control, and heart health.
For those with constipation problems, or weight loss, asparagus is rich in fiber. At the same time it has a goodly amount of protein. These two in combination are qualities that help food moving through the digestive system while giving us energy.
Are there Odors?
Some people avoid asparagus because of a particular urine odor that can occur in some individuals. This odor poses no danger or health risk at all. It is interesting that studies have not been able to show why this odor happens. Various theories are that some people generate odor producing substances which is probably genetic.
Taking Care of Your Asparagus
While the asparagus shoots through the earth and pops up strong and sturdy looking, it actually is very perishable in the refrigerator. Do wrap the wends in damp paper to offset its wrinkling and hardening. Look for thin, not fat stems, firmness, and deep green colored closed tips. The cut ends will be a little woody, which does prevent it from drying out, but not too woody. When it is very thin you do not have to peel it. Peel the tough outer skin from the bottom part of thicker stalks.
Most asparagus are green but there are also white asparagus that has more delicate texture and flavor. It is white because it actually is grown underground. There is also purple asparagus which is smaller and is said to have a fruity flavor. If you cook the purple asparagus longer it tends to lose its color.
Asparagus is easily made in a quick sauté. Just use some broth or water in a stainless steel pot, bring to a boil, add your asparagus, cover and cook 5 minutes. Then add your own dressings, including olive oil, balsamic vinegar, additions such as a small jar of drained roasted red peppers, onions, or cooked tofu cubes. Toss it with your favorite pastas and seasonings such as thyme, tarragon and rosemary. Many people love some chopped and added to omelets. Asparagus is enjoyed both hot and cold. As a cold ingredient add right to your own salads. Asparagus is wonderful sautés with garlic, mushrooms and chicken cubes.
Chicken or Tofu Asian Asparagus
- 1 bunch of asparagus cut into small pieces (2 cups)
- Cubed breast of chicken or tofu
- 1 sliced onion, 2-3 crushed garlic cloves
- 1 tablespoon chopped fresh ginger
- 1 tablespoon broth
- 2 tablespoons soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon rice vinegar
Let your cut onion and garlic sit for a few minutes to bring out their best health properties. In a stainless steel pan, heat the broth, sauté the onion for 2 minutes while stirring, then add your chicken or tofu, ginger and garlic and sauté about 4 minutes while stirring. Add asparagus, rice vinegar, soy sauce and seasonings, cover and sauté another 3 minutes or longer if using thicker asparagus. Serve over a healthy grain of your choice.
Saucing Your Asparagus
Here is a great mustard sauce for hot or cold asparagus, and even better with salmon and asparagus. Blend together 1/4 pound tofu, 1 tablespoon mustard--Dijon is great, 1 tablespoon honey, , 2 tablespoons olive oil, 2 tablespoons lemon juice, 4 tablespoons chopped dill 1/2 cup water, seasonings to taste. This sauce is great on salmon with asparagus sides.
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Britain did not exist as a unified location - Wales was split into different principalities, Scotland had its own kings and Ireland was only partially under the control of English kings.
In the area today called Britain many different languages were spoken, some changing over the very long medieval period:
In most of England, Old English was used up to about 1150; it gradually evolved into Middle English. In Cornwall in the far south-west of England, the language was Kernowek but some people must have been bilingual (administrators, lawyers, merchants and so on). On the Isle of Man, Manx Gaelic was spoken (again some people must have been bilingual). The nobility and some others spoke Anglo-Norman French, while Latin was the language of the Church, of schools, books and educated people.
In Wales dialects of Old Welsh were spoken.
In different parts of Scotland people spoke Gaelic, Old Norse, Middle English (Scots dialect) and Anglo-Norman French.
In Ireland a form of Gaelic was used.
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