it's been awhile soooo:
WORD OF THE DAY:
Mare n: any of several mostly flat dark areas of considerable extent on the surface of the moon or Mars.
"Mare" didn't officially touch down in English until 1860, but the idea that the dark areas of the moon's surface might be seas goes back at least to the ancient Greek writer Plutarch. Galileo introduced the concept in modern times. He never used the Latin word mare ("sea") to describe these areas, but various writers of the 17th century Latin works did. Today we know that the moon is dry and its "seas" are actually old lava flows, but we still use "mare" and its plural "maria" to refer to them. (The plural "mares" occurs, too, but less frequently.) Incidentally, the "mare" that means "female horse" has no connection with the Latin or the sea; rather, it's derived from mearh, the Old English word for "horse."
WORD OF THE DAY:
Mare n: any of several mostly flat dark areas of considerable extent on the surface of the moon or Mars.
"Mare" didn't officially touch down in English until 1860, but the idea that the dark areas of the moon's surface might be seas goes back at least to the ancient Greek writer Plutarch. Galileo introduced the concept in modern times. He never used the Latin word mare ("sea") to describe these areas, but various writers of the 17th century Latin works did. Today we know that the moon is dry and its "seas" are actually old lava flows, but we still use "mare" and its plural "maria" to refer to them. (The plural "mares" occurs, too, but less frequently.) Incidentally, the "mare" that means "female horse" has no connection with the Latin or the sea; rather, it's derived from mearh, the Old English word for "horse."
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ggdeckard:
Thankyou! And my powers tell me... hmm... that you'll be being perved on in MR soon 
Hopefully, anyway!
Hopefully, anyway!
iena:
thanks babe!| 