“Kissing the Blarney Stone” is a ritual engaged in by many, many tourists (indeed, I’ve done it myself!), but it’s not a simple process. Blarney is home to Blarney Castle, and inside the castle is the legendary Blarney Stone. The related “Erin” is an anglicized version of “Éire” and actually corresponds to “Éirinn”, the dative case of “Éire”.īlarney is a town in County Cork in the south of Ireland. They have many uses to man, from pulling plows to providing milk. More people depend on water buffaloes than any other domestic animal. “Bos” is the Latin for “cow”, and “bovinus” a Late Latin derivative term.ĭomestic water buffalo are found all over the world, but mainly in the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia and China.

Something described as bovine is related to a cow, ox or buffalo, or indeed any ruminant in the genus Bos. New Delhi and Delhi, therefore, are two different things. New Delhi resides within the National Capital Territory of Delhi (otherwise known as the metropolis of Delhi). For example, the most smog-plagued city in Latin America is Mexico City, which is located in a highland “bowl” that traps industrial and vehicle pollution. Several cities around the world have a reputation of being particularly smoggy. The term was first used to describe the air around London in the early 1900s. “Smog” is a portmanteau formed by melding “smoke” and “fog”. In Spanish, an “amigo” is a male friend, and an “amiga” is a female friend. Today’s Wiki-est Amazonian Googlies Across

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