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To: AnAmericanMother
Cavalry, from the same root word that forms the French word "cheval" for horse.

Calvary is a hill in Jerusalem.

32 posted on 03/22/2003 2:12:10 PM PST by Kevin Curry
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To: Kevin Curry
And Calvary is the Latinisation of Golgotha, calvaria being the Latin for "skull".
37 posted on 03/22/2003 3:04:34 PM PST by AnAmericanMother (. . . sorry, this one just drives me nuts . . .)
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