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.
…was one of the wonders of the world and was built for King Mausolus in Halicarnassus, which inspired our name for similar structures today.
This part of your house is named after a classical architectural style.
Huang Xingchu, a chef from Guangdong, was the first reported human case of SARS. And when Singapore flight attendant Esther Mok went shopping in Hong Kong, she picked up this disease, which she spread to hundreds of other people…