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June 30th, 2007 by admin
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A good teaching tool to use with your children would be to have your kids check this information and see if it is correct; or do we now have a different understanding of these things.
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RIDDLES OLD AND NEW
Feet have they, but they walk not: stoves.
Eyes have they, but they see not: potatoes.
Noses have they, but they smell not: tea-pots.
Mouths have they, but they taste not: rivers.
Hands have they, but they handle not: clocks.
Ears have they, but they hear not: corn stalks.
Tongues have they, but they talk not: wagons.
“The Handy Cyclopedia Of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference Covering Especially Such Information Of Everyday Use as is often Hardest to Find When Most Needed” Albert J Dubois, 1911, Joseph Trienens (Now in the Public Domain)
THE NAME OF GOD IN FIFTY LANGUAGES.
Hebrew, Eleah, Jehovah; Chaldaic, Eiliah; Assyrian, Eleah; Syrian and Turkish, Alah; Malay, Alla; Arabic, Allah; languages of the Magi, Orsi; old Egyptian, Teut; modern Egyptian, Teun; Armenian, Teuti; Greek, Theos; Cretan, Thios; Aedian and Dorian, Ilos; Latin, Deus; Low Latin, Diex; Celtic Gaelic, Diu; French, Dieu; Spanish, Dios; Portuguese, Deos; Old German, Diet; Provencal, Diou; Low Breton, Done; Italian, Dio; Irish, Dia; Olotu, Deu; German and Swiss, Gott; Flemish, God; Dutch, God; English, God; Teutonic, Goth; Danish and Swedish, Gud; Norwegian, Gud; Slav, Buch; Polish, Bog; Polacca, Bung; Lapp, Jubinal; Finnish, Jumala; Runic, As; Zembilian, As; Pannanlian, Istu; Tartar, Magatai; Coromandel, Brama; Persian, Sire; Chinese, Prussa; Japanese, Goezer; Madagascar, Zannar; Peruvian, Puchecammae.
“The Handy Cyclopedia Of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference Covering Especially Such Information Of Everyday Use as is often Hardest to Find When Most Needed” Albert J Dubois, 1911, Joseph Trienens (Now in the Public Domain)
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