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What Chinese became a black American and then a gypsy?

In Blyakhin's story "The Red Devils" about the adventures of teenagers during the Civil War, one of the characters was a Chinese Yu-yu. In the silent film adaptation of 1923, due to difficult relations with China, he was replaced by black acrobat Tom Jackson. And in 1967, when there were difficult relations with both China and the United States, this hero in the film "The Elusive Avengers" reincarnated as Yashka the Gypsy.

Authors: Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger

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How did the animals get their names?

Not all English animal names appeared in the same way. Some names that already existed in other languages were simply called the English word. Other names are a combination of words that describe a given animal. Let's see how the names of some animals came about.

Hippo means "river horse" in Greek. "Hippos" means horse, and "potamos" means river.

Rhino is a Latin name that comes from two Greek words. Rhinos means nose and Keras means horn. And the rhino does indeed have a horn on its nose!

The word "leopard" comes from the Latin "leopardus", which means a spotted lion.

The word "lion" comes from the Latin "leon".

The English name for the camel comes from the Arabic "gamel", which in Latin existed as "camelos".

"Wolf" is the modern pronunciation of the Old English word "wolf", which goes back to the Latin "vulpes" meaning "fox".

The modern name of the fox comes from the Icelandic "fax", which means "hair mane".

The name opossum comes from "opussum". So the Indians of Virginia called this animal.

The name "bull" comes from the Old English "belkan", which meant "to growl".

"Deer" ("deer") comes from the Old English word "deor", which meant a wild animal.

The word "porcupine" comes from two Latin words: "porcus" meaning pig and "back" meaning thorn. It turned out a pig with thorns.

The modern name of the cat ("puss") came from the Egyptians. They called the cat "pasht", which meant the moon, as cats hunt at night. Then this name was shortened to "pass", and so we got this word.

The name of the poodle comes from the German "poodle", which means "puddle". It was a dog hunting in the water. And the very word "dog" ("dog") - shortened from the Icelandic "Doggr".

We got acquainted only with some names of animals, but even from these examples one can see that they were formed in different ways.

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