How countries got their names:

• America was named after the map maker of the    Americas Amerigo Vespucci.

• India was named after the Indus River.

• England was named after the Anglo-Saxons who lived in the area.

• France was conquered by a group of  Germanic tribes called Franks and they lived there for seven years. France was named after the Franks.

• Australia, comes from Tera Australis incognita    meaning unknown southland

• Canada, in 1535 two Indian youth told Jacque    Cartier about the route to Kanata. They were    referring to the village of Stadacona; Kanata    was simply the Huron-Iroquois word for village    or settlement to refer not only to Stadacona (today   Québec city) but also to the entire area subject    to its chief.

• Russia was named after the Viking tribe the RUS who founded a settlement there.

• Burundi derives from Rundi (kirundi) the language   universally spoken throughout Burundi.

• Guinea, derives from the Berber word aguinaw, or   gnawa (black man), which Berbers (nomadic    Saharan peoples) have used to describe most of   West Africa.

• Kenya was named after Mountain Kenya and this in turn derives from the kikuyu, who refer to the mountain as kirinyaga, or kerenyaga meaning ‘mountain of whiteness’.

• Namibia was derived from Namib, the desert that runs along the Namibia coast. Namib in turn means an   area where there is nothing in the local language.

Quote of the Day:

BLOOD IS THICKER THAN WATER.

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