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River Rivals
Even from the very beginning, Rome has always had a strong connection with rivers.
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Attribution
Being alive since the 1970s has some advantages.
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Secular
The word secular traces its origin back to Latin, where the word saeculum meant a long period of time, or an epoch, or an age.
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Janus Words
Many of the Roman gods weren’t exact clones of Greek gods, but they were more or less one to one matches.
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Jubilee
The word jubilee traces its origins back to ancient Hebrew.
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It's a Sign
Ancient Romans used the word signum in a similar manner to the way we use sign today, although their use was much more limited.
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One Foot in the Phrase
In 1546, John Heywood published a book of English proverbs called A Dialogue Conteinyng the Nomber in Effect of All the Prouerbes in the Englishe…
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Caesars, Tsars, and Shahs
Cognates are words that share a common origin.
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Primordial
What’s the very first thing that comes to mind when you read or hear the word primordial?
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Tribal Knowledge
The very early Romans divided themselves into three quasi-ethnic subgroups.
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To Zeus!
The ancient Greeks called their main god Zeus, but when the Romans crafted their own pantheon, they wanted new names for these gods.
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Old Spice
What is a spice, anyway?
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