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The bright red flower called the poinsettia has become a traditional part of American Christmas celebrations. But the flower’s common name, which, while it sounds exotic, has nothing to do with the native name for the plant, is a reference to an American diplomat of whom a 1929 edition of the Baltimore Evening Sun wrote “His Career was as flamboyantly colorful as the poinsettia, and yet he is almost forgotten.”
To the western mind the crossbow is probably most associated with the middle ages, but its invention predates that era by about 1000 years.
In 1630, a little remembered group of 8 Englishmen became separated from their ship, and were left virtually without equipment and supplies, in one of the world’s harshest environments, to almost certain death.
