| Olivepn | Дата: Воскресенье, 06.12.2015, 14:32 | Сообщение # 1 |
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| Maddening crowd as in mad as a hatter, there is similar uncertainty about march hares. Some say that march was originally 'marsh', a place where various factors (damp, lack of cover, difficulty of burrowing) caused unpredictable behaviour. A better explanation is that the hare is prone to skittish behaviour in march because it is the mating season.
And here's another truth!
Mickey mouse the height of folly intermittent insanity used to be attributed to the changes of the moon, which is why the word 'lunacy' is derived from the latin for moon, luna. The height of madness was supposed to coincide with the height of summer (i.E. Midsummer, the period of the summer solstice, about june 21) and with the lunar month during which it falls.
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