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This Japanese word for “fried food” actually comes from a Portuguese word.

The campaign to ban these weapons won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997, and Princess Diana was a big supporter in the last year of her life.

One of the world capital, Brussels, is surrounded by, but not part of, a Flemish region called Brabant.

Swabian merchant Max Schneckenburger wrote “Die Wacht am Rhein” (Watch on the Rhine) in 1840, fearing that what Germany was about to be attacked by France…

When you “get the wind knocked out of you,” this part of your body has a spasm.

People of Judaism mark the end of their holidays and days of rest with a ceremony called Havdalah, which includes spices and a braided candle.

Sometimes it’s called Foyle. Or the Maiden City. Irish Unionists affix the name of that British city to that of Derry… It is London.

Koreans insist that sea to their east should be known as the East Sea. It is known as Sea of Japan.

The Reign of Terror began after Jean-Paul Marat, editor of L’ami du Peuple was stabbed to death by Charlotte Corday as he lay in his bath, treating a skin condition.

France invaded Mexico in 1838, after soldiers ransacked a shop owned by a French citizen in Veracruz. We call it the Pastry War, but the locals called it La guerra de los pasteles, and it cost General Santa Anna his leg.