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#sarscov2 : concentrations importantes relevées dans toutes les stations de traitement des eaux usées de New York
"C'est tellement triste, prévisible et évitable. Il suffit de nettoyer/filtrer l'air intérieur pour éliminer tous les virus respiratoires. Ce n'est pas sorcier."
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Nous restons en France en attente d'un réseau #SumEau pleinement fonctionnel qui puisse prendre le relais de @RObepine et nous donner ne serait-ce que cette visibilité.
Ne pas vouloir savoir n'empêche pas les choses d'être.
Ne plus disposer d'indicateurs fiables de suivi est
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une autre erreur politique flagrante.
Reviendrons-nous un jour à de la politique au sens noble du terme, celle qui s'intéresse à l'intérêt de tous, à la justice ? Celle où les personnes qui en sont porteuses et récipiendaires accepteront que leurs choix ne soient pas forcément
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Examples of appropriation of #Arabic toponyms
List will name #Palestinian villages, place names depopulated before or in 1948, followed by #Israeli settlements with toponyms derived from names of destroyed #Palestinian villages:

#Lubya
Depopulated July 1948 (Bean in #Arabic)
#Lavi (Kibbutz); founded 1948 (Lion in #Hebrew)

#Al-Kabri ( Western #Galilee) depopulated on May 21st 1948
#Kabri (Kibbutz); founded 1949

#Alma (#Sadad district)
Depopulated on October 30th, 1948
#Alma (#moshav ) founded in 1949

#Biriyya;
Depopulated on May 2,
-, 1948

#Amqa (#Acre are)
Depopulated october, 1948
#Amka (Moshav) founded 1949

#Sajara (Lower #Galilee);
Depopulated: July, 1948
#Tree in #Arabic
#AynZaytun (Western #Galilee)
Spring #Olives in #Arabic
#Ilaniya (Tree in #Hebrew)+ #EinZeitim (kibbutz) Spring olive
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#Hydronomastics is the study of #hydronyms, the proper names of bodies of water.

It's a branch of #toponomastics, the study of #toponyms (the proper names of places), which in turn is a branch of #onomastics, the study of #orthonyms (proper names).

French / Luxembourghish sign: The River Sauer in Martelan...
#Hydronym and #hydronomastics both derive from Ancient #Greek ὕδωρ / húdōr (water) + ὄνομα / ónoma (name). The Greek island of Skiatho...
#Hydronyms tend to outlast other #toponyms, even when new #languages and cultures displace earlier ones.

#England, #EastAnglia, #Essex, and #Sussex are named for the #Angles and #Saxons; but #Trent, #Ouse, #Thames, #Severn, and #Avon are older #Celtic and #RomanoBritish names. A map showing the main rive...
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