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Receiving a book is always a pleasure — even when it is written in a language you don't understand. A few days ago, I received this in my mailbox… Just spend a few seconds looking at the cover. You’ll find an expression in seven different languages. You’ll probably understand it…
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Hi! Tiny countries are fascinating. They always remind me of fairy tales (“there was a small kingdom where everybody was happy”), even if with some…
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This time, I look at a word in my own language: “mar”, meaning “sea”.
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The word "Internet" is here to stay — but now it's an old celebrity, who everyone knows, but who doesn’t appear in so many movies (i.e. conversations…
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The name of the tenth month seems to begin with sounds similar to “eight” in many languages. Why is that?
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Where did the word "moon" come from? And "lunar"?
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If we look at the origin of the word “coffee”, we find stories about dancing goats, mystic drinkers, a distant smell in Vienna and an ancient social…
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Sugar is bad for us but tastes so good — let’s look at its history in 10 words from around the world.
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