Early in the 18th century, wives of sailors and their lovers would go with them in long journeys(sometimes prostitutes were on board too). The sailors would drink all day so when they didn’t drink they did the only other sensibly thing, with the women. When one of the women became pregnant during the trip with no land nearby. The women would be forced to give birth on the sea, they would place a clean curtain near the midship gun/cannon. The women would then give birth at that spot. Since there were many men on the ship and few women, it was hard to know who the father actually was. So they just called the baby, son of a gun, since it came out near a gun.
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The man who once ruled over more than a quarter of the planet, invented the newspaper, Julius Caesar in 59 B.C. These papers that were written by Julius himself. These posts were availaible in big cities like Rome but not many others. However it didn’t take long to make papers available to a massive amount of people for a small price. Thanks to Gutenberg’s press printing method, newspaper became a new industry. Citizens of Venice started to pay for these papers to know what is going around in the world and their own parts. This phenom blew up in the 16th century, the price of these papers were 1 gazetta, which is 1 Italian Coin. This gave us the term Gazette for newspapers.
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Shopping centers are like mushrooms these days, popping up everywhere. From the big city mall to the small town mall, these commercial centers are everywhere in this modern day. Shopping centers started to become popular around the 1950s but weren’t called malls. Mall is a word that came from the Italian game Palamaglio, which means ball and mallet game. When the word came into english it was just called pall-mall(pronounced pell-mell). The game was invented in the 16th century but around 18th century the word was forgotten in England. Though there was a street named after it, where wealthy people would go shopping. The street’s name was Mall, so that is how shopping centers got their name, from a fancy avenue in London.
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