This blog covers my adventures in reading, writing, procedural content generation, and whatever else comes to mind.
Thursday, February 23, 2017
Canary Islands
At lunch today, I read that the Canary Islands were named not for canaries (those noisy, colorful birds), but instead for the large dogs (canines) found on the islands by Portuguese sailors during the fourteenth century. Who knew?
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