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Many star names are, in origin, descriptive of the part in the constellation they are found in; thus Phecda, a corruption of Arabic فخذ الدب ( fakhdh ad-dubb, 'thigh of the bear'). Only a handful of the brightest stars have individual proper names not depending on their asterism; so Sirius ('the scorcher'), Antares ('rival of Ares ', i.e ...
Based on the form of government, there are 292 towns and 59 cities in Massachusetts. Some municipalities, however, still refer to themselves as "towns" even though they have a city form of government. The Census Bureau classifies towns in Massachusetts as a type of "minor civil division" and cities as a type of "populated place".
t. e. This article contains a list of organs in the human body. It is widely believed that there are 79 organs (this number goes up if you count each bone and muscle as an organ on their own, which is becoming a more common practice [1] [2] ); however, there is no universal standard definition of what constitutes an organ, and some tissue ...
Towns and villages in Hungary. Hungary has 3,152 municipalities as of July 15, 2013: 346 towns (Hungarian term: város, plural: városok; the terminology does not distinguish between cities and towns – the term town is used in official translations) and 2,806 villages (Hungarian: község, plural: községek) of which 126 are classified as large villages (Hungarian: nagyközség, plural ...
Yehuda Amichai (1924–2000, Germany/Israel, p), birth name Ludwig Pfeuffer Edmondo De Amicis (1846–1908, Italy, f/p/ch) Alexander Amilakhvari (1750–1802, Russian E, nf)
List of painters by name. The following lists of painters by name includes about 3,400 painters from all ages and parts of the world.
List of colors: A–F. Colors are an important part of visual arts, fashion, interior design, and many other fields and disciplines. The following is a list of colors. A number of the color swatches below are taken from domain-specific naming schemes such as X11 or HTML4. RGB values are given for each swatch because such standards are defined ...
Lists of airlines. Lists of airlines cover existing and defunct airlines. Complete lists are given in alphabetical sequence by the name of the continent from which they operate. Lists are also given by size, by business model and by other characteristics. There are over 5,000 airlines with ICAO codes .