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Tungsten was first discovered in the United States in 1819, along with tellurium (with the symbol Te, it comes from Latin tellus , another word for terra , both meaning earth; compare the consonant shift between Latin puer , boy, and puella, girl) in Huntington, Connecticut, in a bismuth mine.
I didn't spend my Friday afternoon ogling ancient terra cotta warriors or my Sunday gallivanting around Beijing's Forbidden City.
China’s greatest archaeological attraction, the terra cotta warriors of the Qin Dynasty Army, stand in battle formation about 30 km (nearly 20 miles) east of Xi’an in the complex known as the Museum of the Terra Cotta Warriors and Horses (Qinshihuang Bingmayong Bowuguan).
When they wanted to moor the ship, they dropped a heavy object attached to a line, and they termed this anchoring , because the object was called an anchor (rather ankor, anker , or ancre ), When it was time to return to terra firma, they chose a short, appropriate noun to describe that action, to land .
On Largo Dom João III, at the center of the town, is the excellent Museu da Terra de Miranda, displaying a selection of traditional Mirandês costumes, ancient ritualistic figures, furniture, and folklore objects.