Tag: missile
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rockets & missiles
Rockets and missiles have been too much with us. Where do the words come from? Rocket Originally referring to “fireworks,” rocket derives from the Italian rocchetto–passing into English from the French roquette in the early 1600s–where it referred to something far gentler and more productive: a “bobbin,” a spool around which yarn is wound. The word is…
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