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When Paul Brachfeld took over as inspector general of the National Archives, guardian of the country's most beloved treasures, he discovered the American people were being stolen blind. The Wright brothers' 1903 Flying Machine patent application? Gone. A copy of the Dec. 8, 1941, "Day of Infamy" speech autographed by Franklin Roosevelt and tied with a purple ribbon? Gone. Target maps of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, war telegrams written by Abraham Lincoln, and a scabbard and belt given to Harry Truman? Gone, gone and gone. The Archival Recovery Team, is asking the American people to help find what rightfully belongs to them. They published a pamphlet on how to recognize a historical federal document, and whom to call if you find one. The Wright brothers' patent — lost or stolen in the 1980s — was May's featured missing item on the National Archives' Facebook page. "We have taken theft out of the shadows," Brachfeld said, recalling the days when embarrassing losses were kept secret. "If it's gone, we want it back. And if it's stolen, we will do our best to send whoever took it to jail." http://www.statesman.com/news/nation/national-archives-team-hunts-americas-stolen-treasures-873400.html

Indo-European languages: Centum http://www.danshort.com/ie/iecentum.htm
Indo-European languages: Satum http://www.danshort.com/ie/iesatem.htm
Check images at Google for many representations of the Indo-European language tree.

park (n.) mid-13c., "enclosed preserve for beasts of the chase," from O.Fr. parc, probably ultimately from W.Gmc. *parruk "enclosed tract of land" (cf. O.E. pearruc, root of paddock (2), O.H.G. pfarrih "fencing about, enclosure," Ger. pferch "fold for sheep," Du. park). Internal evidence suggests the W.Gmc. word is pre-4c. and originally meant the fencing, not the place enclosed. Welsh parc, Gael. pairc are from English. As a surname, Parker "keeper of a park" is attested in English from mid-12c. Meaning "enclosed lot in or near a town, for public recreation" is first attested 1660s, originally in reference to London; the sense evolution is via royal parks in the original, hunting sense being overrun by the growth of London and being opened to the public. Applied to sporting fields in Amer.Eng. from 1867. New York's Park Avenue as an adj. meaning "luxurious and fashionable" (1956) was preceded in the same sense by London's Park Lane (1880).
park (v.) 1812, "to arrange military vehicles in a park," from park (n.) in a limited sense of "enclosure for military vehicles" (attested from 1683). General non-military meaning "to put (a vehicle) in a certain place" is first recorded 1844. Parking lot is from 1924; parking ticket first attested 1947; park-and-ride is from 1966. The transmission gear (n.) is attested from 1963.
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=park

The essays in the Federalist Papers, published under the pseudonym of "Publius," are only the most famous example of the outpouring of anonymous political writing that occurred during the ratification of the Constitution. John Jay, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton shared the pen name "Publius" when they wrote the Federalist Papers. Alexander Hamilton wrote several newspaper essays using a variety of pen names taken from characters from ancient Rome. Benjamin Austin, a Baptist minister and author of some of the Federalist Papers, wrote under the pseudonym "Candidus." Benjamin Franklin often wrote under pseudonyms, including "Silence Dogood," "the Busy-Body," "Obadiah Plainman," "Robin Good-fellow," and of course, "Poor Richard." Franklin frequently used the name "Richard Saunders," the same pseudonym as he had used when he wrote "Poor Richard's Almanack," which was first published in 1732.
John Adams, our second president, often used the pseudonym "Novanglus" when he wrote, but he was published frequently by the Boston Gazette under the name "Clarendan." John Leland, a Baptist minister and American patriot, wrote under the pseudonym of "Jack Nipps." John Carroll, the first bishop (of Baltimore), used the alias "Pacificus" for his documents. http://www.magic-city-news.com/Editor_s_Desk_34/A_Climate_of_Fear_34683468.shtml

Sam Hill is an American English slang phrase, a euphemism or minced oath for "the devil" or "hell" personified (as in, "What in the Sam Hill is that?"). Etymologist Michael Quinion and others date the expression back to the late 1830s; they and others[ consider the expression to have been a simple bowdlerization, with, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, an unknown origin. According to Quinion: an article in the New England Magazine in December 1889 entitled "Two Centuries and a Half in Guilford, Connecticut" mentioned that, “Between 1727 and 1752 Mr. Sam. Hill represented Guilford in forty-three out of forty-nine sessions of the Legislature, and when he was gathered to his fathers, his son Nathaniel reigned in his stead” and a footnote queried whether this might be the source of the "popular Connecticut adjuration to ‘Give ‘em Sam Hill’?" H. L. Mencken suggested that the "Sam" in the phrase derives from Samiel, the name of the Devil in Der Freischütz, an opera by Carl Maria von Weber that was performed in New York in 1825. http://www.answers.com/topic/sam-hill

Amusing place names
Boring, OR and Irrigon, OR
Normal, IL and Oblong, IL
Eighty Eight, KY and Eighty Four, PA
Zero, IA and Zero, MT