“Buwan”, the 2017 hit by Juan Karlos, is one of the Philippines bigger hits ever, with over 160-million views on Youtube. The title means “moon” in English.
According to Tagalog-Dictionary.com, buwan can mean moon, and also month.
In this calendar year there will be a TSE, total solar eclipse, in Argentina on December 14.
Its shadow trace will follow this path:
In calendar year 2024 there will be a TSE in Mexico and the US and Canada on April 8.
Its shadow trace will follow this path:
A TSE is when the moon blocks the sun from the earth.
In the context of the song, “Buwan” is about the moon, but the same word is used for “month”. The word that sounds like “fucking gun” is “pakinggan”, which is the imperative form of the verb “to listen”, as in “listen to me”
Fucking, Austria is a small village of about 100 people located 25 miles northwest of Salzburg. Map > Google Maps.
Its road signs are a popular visitor attraction, and they were often stolen by souvenir-hunting vandals until 2005, when the signs were modified to be theft-resistant.
“This Fucking sign won’t come off the fucking signpost!” 
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St. Peter’s Stiftskellar is a restaurant in Salzburg, Austria, located within St. Peter’s Abbey. It was mentioned in a document written by the scholar Alcuin of York in 803, making it one of the oldest restaurants in Europe, if not the world.
Juvavum (or, Luvavum) was once a city in the Roman Empire. Juvavum became an important city on the Empire’s frontier, but once the frontier collapsed Juvavum declined so sharply that by the late 7th century it nearly became a ruin.
But in the 700s Saint Rupert revived the city and named the city “Salzburg”, meaning “Salt Castle”. The name Salzburg derives from the barges carrying salt on the River Salzach, which were subject to a toll in the 8th century as was customary for many communities and cities on European rivers.
In 1077, Hohensalzburg Fortress, the city’s fortress, was built in by Archbishop Gebhard, who made it his residence. It was greatly expanded during the following centuries.
Ebenezer, Georgia, has been a ghost town since 1855, but was established in 1734 by about 150 Salzburg emigrants, Protestant refugees who had been expelled from the Catholic Archbishopric of Salzburg and given refuge by the King of England in the American colonies. Their Ebenezer church remains a well-maintained historic site.
In the Old Testament Bible book 1 Samuel, a location that is mentioned as the scene of battles between the Israelites and Philistines, that is described as being less than a day’s journey by foot from Shiloh, near Aphek, in the neighbourhood of Mizpah, near the western entrance of the pass of Bethoron, is the place called Eben-Ezer (Ebenezer). It is mentioned in 1Sa 4:1-11 and 1Sa 7:2-14. Samuel gave it the name, Eben-Ezer.
Supposedly, Charles Dickens was inspired in his naming of Ebenezer Scrooge by an Edinburgh tombstone. He was walking through the Canongate Kirkyard at twilight when he came across a headstone was for Ebenezer Lennox Scroggie. The headstone identified Scroggie as a “meal man” (corn merchant), but Dickens misread this as “mean man”.
An estuary is a partially enclosed coastal body of brackish water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea. In Scottish, an estuary is a firth, which is an anglicization of fjord. The Firth of Forth is the estuary of several Scottish rivers, including the River Forth, that meets the North Sea. Edinburgh is located in Lothian on the Firth of Forth’s southern shore.
The Firth of Forth has to be one of the coolest place names in the English language. It’s on my bucket list, but I doubt if I’ll make it there this year…
In play: The country of Norway is estimated to have nearly 1200 fjords along its coastline. The Sognefjord, at 127 miles, is one of the longest in the world. At 4,921 feet, it is also one of the deepest. Its nickname is ‘King of the Fjords.’
The “Pet Shop Sketch” (also known as the “Dead Parrot Sketch”) is one of the best-known sketches from the English comedy series Monty Python’s Flying Circus. The sketch appeared in Episode 8 (“Full Frontal Nudity”) of the show’s first series, and first aired on the BBC on December 7, 1969.
In the sketch, Mr. Praline (played by John Cleese) comes to a pet shop, complaining to the shopkeeper (played by Michael Palin) that the “Norwegian Blue” parrot which the shopkeeper had recently sold him is, in fact, dead. The shopkeeper gives a wide range of reasons for the parrot’s inactivity, including that it is “resting,” “stunned,” and “pining for the fjords.”
The Seven Sisters waterfall in Norway is along the Geirangerfjord or Geiranger Fjord.
Never heard that before. Cool trivia - thanks!
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The Seven Sisters of the Pleiades star cluster inspired the Subaru automobile company’s logo. “Subaru” is Japanese for Pleiades.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subaru#Fuji_Heavy_Industries_(FHI)_and_Subaru’s_first_cars
Ranald McDonald was the first English speaker to survive landing Japan. In 1846 he asked to be put off his ship on Japan, which would mean certain death or imprisonment, and instead set to work teaching English to 14 Samurai, the first Japanese to learn the language. He returned alive, and his grave is a historical monument in eastern Washington.
Moriyama Einosuke was a samurai during the Tokugawa Shogunate in 19th Century Japan, and studied English under the American instructor Ranald MacDonald. He excelled in his studies of English, and served as an interpreter for the Shogun; Einosuke was instrumental in the negotiations with Commodore Matthew Perry which led to the opening of Japan to other countries.
‘Perry’ is an alcoholic beverage made from fermented pears, similar to the way cider is made from apples.
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What about William Adams, who landed in Japan in April 1600? He lived there for 20 years and inspired Blackthorne “anjin-san” in James Clavell’s Shogun.
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There is no evidence that the “tree of the knowledge of good and evil” in the Book of Genesis was an apple tree.
The Hebrew Bible mentions six types of tree or vine fruit, many of which appear dozens of times: Grape, Fig, Olive Pomegranate, date and apple.
When they appear, apples are usually described as beautiful and desirable:
“Like an apple tree among the trees of the forest,
So is my beloved among the young men” and “Comfort me with apples for I am sick with love” in the Song of Songs and
“Like apples of gold in settings of silver
Is a word spoken in right circumstances” in the book of Proverbs.
The Nebraska National Forest, once the world’s largest man-made forest, was created in 1907, as an experiment to see if a grassland could be converted to forest. Wikipedia fails to mention whether the experiment is regarded as successful, how much of the 222,000 acres is actually forest-covered, whether any natural trees already grew there, or what kinds of trees grow there now. I’ve been there, and it looks like a few scrubby patches of Red Cedar.
The cedars of Lebanon are mentioned in the Bible, and have long been a living symbol of the country. A cedar appears on the national flag, adopted in 1943.