Month: May 2026
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Why are they called the New York “Knicks”?
When it comes to the etymology of the name “Knicks,” Washington Irving is the MVP. But the real MVP? The Dutch.
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How “Ebola” got its name
To avoid stigmatizing the village at the center of the 1976 outbreak, researchers named the disease after a river in the central African region whose name French colonists modified from native Ngbandi.
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What is the “hanta-” in “hantavirus”?
“Hantavirus” is named after a Korean river where the virus was first isolated in the late 1970s.