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Re: are these names now technically "taken" for dinos?
On Mon, Oct 26th, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Tim Williams <tijawi@yahoo.com> wrote:
> It's really only a quirk of history that 'Caesar' later came to be used as a
> title for a supreme
> leader or emperor (Kaiser, Tsar, etc). It probably has something to do with
> the fact that
> peoples outside the Roman and Byzantine empires tended to refer to the rulers
> of these empires
as
> 'Caesar'.
A similar thing happened with the word 'pharaoh'. It literally means 'great
house', and refers to the
king's palace rather than the king himself.
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Dann Pigdon
GIS / Archaeologist Australian Dinosaurs
Melbourne, Australia http://home.alphalink.com.au/~dannj
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