[lbo-talk] toponyms

Grant Lee grantlee at iinet.net.au
Thu Jun 12 00:34:07 PDT 2003



> Armageddon (not sure on this last - but I think it orginally referred to
> a particular plain, and only later became a general term for battle of
> end of the world - better confirm before using this one.)

Yep. From the Hebrew, Har Megiddo ("Megiddo Hill") in Israel.

There are more obvious biblical ones like Jerusalem, as in William Blake.



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