Show Contentlauha@lemmy.world23·2 months agoIstanbul is literally “to the city” or in a way just “the city”
Show Contenttigeruppercut@lemmy.zip25·2 months agoBeijing is “northern capital”, Tokyo is “eastern capital”, and Kyoto is “capital capital”.
Show ContentHadriscus@jlai.lu28·2 months ago“capital_capital_final_thistime.jpg” (Karl Marx’s revision history)
Show ContentDreadPirateShawn@lemmy.blahaj.zone172·2 months agoThat’s nobody’s business but the Turks.
Show ContentAgent641@lemmy.world10·2 months agoThe Nullarbor plain sounds like an Aboriginal word, but it’s just Latin and means “No trees” because there are no trees on it.
Show Contenttmyakal@infosec.pub6·2 months agoSchenectady is “the place beyond the pines” because there was a big old pine barren between it and the next settlement over.
Istanbul is literally “to the city” or in a way just “the city”
Beijing is “northern capital”, Tokyo is “eastern capital”, and Kyoto is “capital capital”.
“capital_capital_final_thistime.jpg”
(Karl Marx’s revision history)
That’s nobody’s business but the Turks.
The Nullarbor plain sounds like an Aboriginal word, but it’s just Latin and means “No trees” because there are no trees on it.
Schenectady is “the place beyond the pines” because there was a big old pine barren between it and the next settlement over.