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179. Here's looking at you, Brit...
According to some polls, it ranks in as the 3rd greatest natural wonder of Britain.
The point where it most closely approaches continental Europe is named after one William Shakespeare, who mentions it in King Lear, but perhaps its most iconic reference is in a World War II song, sung by Vera Lynn.
Interestingly enough, it is possibly the underlying reason for one of the archaic names of Britain.
What am I referring to? What archaic name?
The point where it most closely approaches continental Europe is named after one William Shakespeare, who mentions it in King Lear, but perhaps its most iconic reference is in a World War II song, sung by Vera Lynn.
Interestingly enough, it is possibly the underlying reason for one of the archaic names of Britain.
What am I referring to? What archaic name?
Monday, November 17, 2008
178. Devil on Horseback?
This blanket term is used to describe armed gunmen in Darfur, western Sudan, and now eastern Chad. They are the successor to an earlier Arab tribal militia, the Murahilin (literally “high nomads”). According to the United Nations definition, they are comprised of nomadic Arabic-speaking African tribes (i.e. Black Arabs, or Afro-Arabs), the core of whom are from Abbala (camel herder) background with significant recruitment from the Baggara (cattle herder) people.
The term is variously transliterated to mean "devil on horseback", "a man with a gun on a horse", or simply, "a man on a horse”.
What term?
The term is variously transliterated to mean "devil on horseback", "a man with a gun on a horse", or simply, "a man on a horse”.
What term?
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