“for some reason…” Huh, wonder why they had that idea?
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“for some reason…” Huh, wonder why they had that idea?
So, today I learned that
a. Mt. Everest was named for, but not by, George Everest.
b. George Everest was actually a proponent of learning the local name of mountains he surveyed, rather than coming up with new English names.
and c. He hated it when people pronounced his name Ever-est, rather than Eve-rest.
“We instinctively think of mountains as eternal, but they‘re not. They are falling to bits and being remade like the rest of nature - like us.”