HUMBOLDT

Humboldt, Baron Alexander von Humboldt, Baron Friedrich Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt

(noun) German naturalist who explored Central and South America and provided a comprehensive description of the physical universe (1769-1859)

Humboldt, Baron Wilhelm von Humboldt, Baron Karl Wilhelm von Humboldt

(noun) German philologist noted for his studies of the relation between language and culture (1767-1835)

Source: WordNet® 3.1



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Word of the Day

11 January 2025

COWBERRY

(noun) low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries


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Coffee Trivia

The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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