Saturday, October 15, 2016

Garfield Peak in Crater Lake National Park named for politician and lawyer James Rudolph Garfield

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Craggy Garfield Peak (left half of picture) with cone-shaped Crater Peak in the background Garfield Peak in Crater Lake National Park...
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Crater Lake's Merriam Cone named for the American scientist and educator John Campbell Merriam

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Illustration of Merriam Cone , an underwater cinder cone southwest of Cleetwood Cove , Crater Lake, Oregon Crater Lake's Merriam C...
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Friday, October 7, 2016

Crater Lake's Wizard Island named for its shape resembling a sorcerer's hat

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Wizard Island and Llao Rock (top right) named by William Steel, who initiated the national park idea of Crater Lake Wherever standin...
Friday, September 16, 2016

Thismia, a flowering-plant genus named after the English microscopist Thomas Smith

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Smithia → a, h, i, i, m, s, t → Thismia As the above line shows, the word Thismia is an anagram . It is a play on the last name of the ...
Saturday, August 13, 2016

Phylloxera vastatrix, meaning “devastator of vines”

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Literally, Phylloxera vastatrix means dry-leaf devastator . The binomial term is composed of three words of the following origins: the Gre...
Thursday, August 11, 2016

VINE and WINE, a word pair with differences in pronunciation and meaning

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The nouns vine and wine look similar and sound similar—they rhyme. Yet, the two words differ in pronunciation and meaning.  The beginning...
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Sunday, March 27, 2016

Brexit, short for “British exit” and costly for Great Britain and Europe

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The portmanteau Brexit stands for “British exit.” This term mirrors the abbreviation Grexit , referring to the (potential) withdrawal of G...