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The scientific enterprise has always challenged beliefs about the way the world functions, its origins, and its possibilities.
People who cleave to such attitudes may also scorn slang, but they are very often unaware of the true pristine condition of the language or of the origins of words that are standard in contemporary speech.
Jable, incidentally, is the name given to the huge quantities of sands of organic origins that are frequently blown to the surrounding beaches.
In the case of Licciardo and such variants as Licciardello , for instance, the family's honor depends on whether its origins are Northern or Southern.
The rationale behind referring to them as “lost” arises from the author's observation of an unfortunate state of affairs: because of an increasingly widespread lack of familiarity with the basic, structural elements of our culture—Greek and Roman mythology, the Bible, literature, and ordinary historical fact—people today are unable to discern the origins of terms like aphrodisiac, Achilles [sic] heel or tendon, meet one's Waterloo, sow dragon's teeth , and hand-writing on the wall , to name a few.