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Apothem appears to be of modern origin despite its ancient name, and seems to have first appeared in English in the mid 1800's ... Here is a note on the origin of the term from a post by Julio Gonzalez Cabillon: CARDIOID was first used by Giovanni Francesco Mauro Melchior Salvemini de Castillon in "De curva cardiode" in...
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My answer... not 100%, but quite 99%: Latin: duodecim = twelve, with "duo, duae, duo"... for two and "decem" for ten... "duodecimus, -a, -um" stand for the twelfth... In italian, too, they say dodici, meaning t...
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origin of the word, french word, bakers: Hello, I hope you re having a fine week, The word dozen stems from the Old French word dozeine meaning twelve. As you clearly have now discovered, a baker s dozen means thirteen, the number of baked items generous bakers of old provided for the... ... The best to you always,
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I can't find anything on why a baker's dozen is 13. I heard that it came from the time when royalty had food testers. Thus, the tester got one and the dozen was still intact for the king or queen. For some reason I don't buy that.
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NEW YORK: Led by Vikram Pandit-run Citigroup, there are a dozen Fortune 500 companies across the world with an Indian or a person of India-origin as chief, as per the latest list of world's biggest corporations released today.
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ORIGIN RECORDS NEWS ... Jazz will again take over the streets of downtown Ballard on Friday, November 20, as Origin Records presents the Fall 2009 edition of the Ballard Jazz Walk. A single ticket will grant you admission to 12 different clubs.
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It's an industrial strength unabridged dictionary that'll give you half a dozen definitions, the word origin (sometimes), and, best of all, citations from period documents that used the word (for example, I think they quote from a nineteenth century crime novel in the "darby" entry).
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Bakers Dozen Forum-Pastry Chefs and Bakers discuss Recipes, Running a Bake Shop, getting into the business and more ... The origin of mousse - Richard in Hawaii 15:20:23 10/21/98 (1)
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The Baker’s Dozen ; A Saint Nicholas Tale ... So how could he agree when an old woman comes on Saint Nicholas Day to insist that a dozen is thirteen? ... “I asked for a dozen. You have given me only twelve.”...
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