Etymology
MERCHANT PROJECTION
The Mercator projection is a cylindrical map projection often criticized for distorting landmasses near the poles but nevertheless frequently used in websites like Google Maps. It was created in 1569 by…
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When the term lobster entered the English language over a millennium ago, it was written as loppestre, and up until Chaucer's era,…
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