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- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 01:11:14 EST
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- Subject: The Monaco of Bavaria
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- Even the names appear to be unrelated. Munich (Monachium in late Latin)
- means "home of the <Benedictine> monks," while Monaco comes from the
- temples the Phoenicians and Greeks erected to Heracles, whose local surname
- Monoecus may be derived from a pre-Indo-European root 'mon' meaning
- raised site or rock. (Encycl. Brit.)
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- Those Italians make the weirdest associations. Almost as bad as the
- come-on for -Utne Reader- I got in the mail this afternoon, styling
- itself "The Swiss Army Knife of Periodicals."
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- brad
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