The current name of the actual site of Armaggedon is now known as Megiddo, or Har-Meggido. It is a village in a pass near the narrow part of Israel up above the Med, arguably a militarily strategic location for an army heading west to the Med from Babylon, which is what the bad guys were supposed to do according to the Book of Revelations.
So, yes it counts, even if "Armaggedon" is simply a bad English translation of the original name. Barkley Rosser ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gar Lipow" <lipowg at sprintmail.com> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 2:45 AM Subject: [lbo-talk] toponyms
> On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 01:23:04 -0400
> Kelley <the-squeeze at pulpculture.org> wrote
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> > lil help?
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> > working on a list of toponyms which originate as proper place names but
> > then come to have a more generalized meaning. examples would include:
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> > Babel
> > Mecca
> > hell
> > seltzer
> > Siberia
> > Boeotian
> > champagne
> > solecism
> > Chautauqua
> > Waterloo
> > Pax Romana
> > Watergate
> > Gibraltar
> > Timbuktu
> > El Dorado
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> > any other good ones?
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> Hicksvill?
> Peoria?
> Shambala? (Shangrai-la)
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> 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.)
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