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Has anyone heard of any experiments, or aircraft or anything else that is or has the name of or is related to the word wormwood?, sorry just a quick quesion and i figured if anyone knew it would be you guys
Red Dalek said:This is going back to a Newsnight episode from about 1989 (yeah, I know, what the hell was I doing watching that?)
Anyway, the Russian church or similar was in panic because someone had translated Chernobyl into Greek (the language the last part of the bible was written in) and found that is was the same as the Greek translation for Wormwood. There's apparantly a passage in the Revelations of St John that goes on about a star called Wormwood exploding and poluting the land, just like Chernobyl, and it's to do with the end-game to the appocalypse.
Thought this fact might cheer someone up.
James Whitehead said:Absinthe, traditionally high in wormwood, was said to drive people bonkers.
FraterLibre said:Bizkit - I believe the teach in CALVIN & HOBBES is called Wormwood to denote how bitter she is.