Mertcan Bulak
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Venice was also the first place to introduce what we would now call newspapers. These appeared in the mid - sixteenth century and were little sheets describing trade, war, prices and all the other things that a Venetian merchant would need to know about. They were very cheap and were known as a halfpennyworth of news or, in the Venetian dialect, a gazeta de la novita . Gazeta was the name for a Venetian coin of very little value, so called because on it was a picture of a magpie or gazeta .
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Venice was the first modern democracy, which is why ballot comes from the Venetian word ballotte , which means small balls . Indeed, the word ballot arrived on English shores inside The Historie of Italie by William Thomas, because the Venetians would cast their votes by placing different coloured ballotte in a bag.
Amerigo Vespucci named part of South America Little Venice , or in Spanish, Venezuela , because lots of the local tribesmen lived in huts that were built out into the water and supported by stilts, making it a sort of ramshackle miniature Venice.
There was an explorer at the beginning of the nineteenth century called Alexander von Humboldt. He was in Venezuela and found an old parrot that still repeated words from the language of the Ature tribe. Nobody else did, because the Atures had been wiped out a few years before. Another tribe had slaughtered every last one of them and returned victorious with, among other things, a pet parrot. This parrot still spoke only words from the tribe that had raised him. So all that was left of a Venezuelan civilisation were the echoes and repetitions of a parrot.
That’s why the original rolling stones were not boulders crashing down a hillside. In fact, the sort of rolling stone that gathers no moss is helpfully pinned down in a dictionary of 1611 as a gardening implement used to make your lawn nice and flat. The solicitous gardener who rolls his lawn every weekend will find that his rolling stone gathers no moss .