Origins
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We often see pizza being ascribed to the Romans, or to the Romans via the Greeks, but the Daily Pilot adds a twist I haven’t seen before: Ever had a pizza? I have. Do you know what “pizza” means in Italian? I do. Nothing. It’s from the Latin word “picea”… what the Romans called a…
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It’s been one of those days followed by one of those evenings (a power failure seems to have done something so my computer alone of all the wireless devices in our house won’t connect) so I’ll start with one that’s been also bugging me all day since I read it this a.m.. A piece in…
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An excerpt from a piece in the Guardian notes, inter alia: “Blyth Spartans were named after the Greek army,” James Henry points out, before getting to the heart of the matter: “What is the weirdest explanation for a football team’s suffix?” Blyth are named after the Spartan army, the legendary fighting force of the 6th…
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