New atlas comes to the Great Land of the Tattooed (Cities renamed for etymological origins)

The Telegraph (U.K.) / Various ^ | December 4, 2008 | Oliver Smith

[Stoat]

Haha!

Good one, thanks for the heads up.

You're quite welcome, and I'm delighted that you've found it to be worthwhile  :-)

Haha!

Good one, thanks for the heads up.

[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

:’) I’m stealing that...

[Tax-chick]

Maybe near Sulawesi, so we could get tasty Indonesian nibbles and keep up the Komodo Dragon guard force.

[Tax-chick]

The boys have used the Oxford Atlas of the World so much that it’s duct-taped together.

[bert]

Hmmm... I thought Deetroit was place of the Enema

[Verginius Rufus]

Some of the etymologies are open to question. They have "Athens" coming from a Sanskrit root, but the name of the city is thought to go back to the pre-Greek population of Greece (Athenai). According to something I read once about Ebla, from the records in Eblaite (discovered in the excavations there in the 1970s), it appears that the name "Euphrates" originally meant "the great cold river."

[Salamander]

I appreciate place name origins particularly because the ones around here are pretty dull.

When the pioneers got this far west, they must have been parched because just about every village/town near me has something involving water in the name.

[Clear Spring, Big Springs, Indian Springs, Falling Waters, Beaver Creek, Berkeley Springs, Bath...you get the drift] ...;-D

It’s a change to read of place names with history behind them rather than thirst....:)

[Salamander]

Be lazy like me....use this....:)

http://www.x-rates.com/calculator.html

[Tax-chick]

Great site! I was considering ordering a music book from Spain recently, but I was intimidated by ordering something priced in Euros, especially when the instructions were in Spanish!

[Salamander]

I know...I have a hard enough time with our *own* money....;D

[Tax-chick]

I sometimes enter an order, and then when the total shows up on the screen, I click on the Big X! It’s not unusual for the shipping cost on something to be more than the price. I hate that!

The shipping rate on these maps from the U.K. was very reasonable.

[Salamander]

That’s a big scam on eBay, too.

An item costs $1.99 but shipping is $50.

It’s called fee avoidance.

There’s a pair of boots in the UK just like ones I already have [I want a spare pair...LOL] but the shipping is more than the boots.

It costs $60 to ship boots from England?

We shipped an entire several-hundred-pound trike kit to Ireland for less than $600.

They sure must use heavy shoe boxes.

[Tax-chick]

They sure must use heavy shoe boxes.

Did you check the fine print? Maybe the order includes some free bowling balls :-).

I package and mail things, and I know how much it costs. $5 to mail a bumper sticker? Give me a break!

[Salamander]

I think they were giving away chunks of Stonehenge, judging by the cost....;]

[I should write them and ask if I’m being charged for ballast]...LOL

We ship trike kits all over the world and have a FedEx biz account.
Sure, it’s gotten a bit higher since the gas price debacle but it’s *nothing* like we get charged for eBay purchases, sometimes.

I do bas-relief sculptures mounted on marble and copper slate tiles for personal mad money and hubby just informed me that my paltry fee of $3 S/H isn’t even close to the real costs.
I’m going to have to up it to $5 *just* to break even and I feel awful about that.
The tiles are stone and *are* fairly heavy.
[heck, I don’t even take into account the bubble envelopes and interior wrapping]

If I were smart and evil, I would sell the tiles for $10 and charge $20 shipping...;-D

[Tax-chick]

With the technology we have today, it shouldn’t be hard to charge a customer the exact amount it costs the shipper to mail. After all, the customer can often see the postage-charge right there on the box when it arrives!

“Handling” can be considered a legitimate issue for a business that has to place a value on its employees’ time, but for a private seller ... phoop, you were going right past the P.O. on the way to the library anyway.

[Salamander]

“After all, the customer can often see the postage-charge right there on the box when it arrives!”

Not with a FedEx biz account.
It’s just an indecipherable bar code....:))

Be that as it may, we have a large scale for heavy items and a small electronic one for little stuff.

Sometimes hubby just calculates a flat rate on eBay items.
Sometimes he comes up a bit short; others he’ll make a buck or two.

I consistently underestimate my shipping so it all balances out....LOL

[Tax-chick]

Best wishes on your businesses!

[Salamander]

Thanks...we’ll need luck to survive Obamanomics.

[Billthedrill]

I don't get it. If the name of that little town in Texas really means "Marsh Cell" then why did the French name their capital after it?

;-p