I pass this along for your delectation as a communication from Reader SJL:
I just came across a very odd little ‘ailuro-fact’ which may be of interest to you. (Failing that, it could at least prove useful as a Caturday filler item).
The first link gives a list of Jean-Michel Macron’s papers on cats, with several on sneezing. Here’s a classic:
This fact will make you the life of any party. (If that fails, ask people what one country in the world is named after a chemical element.)
Coincidentally, Macron the Elder’s papers are listed on this site:
And here’s the obligatory compilation of sneezing cats:
That made me sneeze.
Yawning cats often make me do the same.
Argentina
You mean Argentina, of course, but Gold Coast was arguably a country (if not an independent nation), and was undoubtedly named for a chemical element.
Cyprus
If anything, copper was named for Cyprus, not the other way around.
Maybe. The Roman word for copper means “metal of Cyprus”, but it’s possible (says Wikipedia) that the Mycenaean name for Cyprus (from which the Roman word is derived) meant “land of copper”. Nobody knows for sure.
What we do know is that copper metallurgy predates human habitation of Cyprus by several millennia, so the metal almost certainly had a name long before the island did.
On a side note, as I write this, I’m sitting about 20 miles from Copperopolis, California.
If one does it in reverse, there are lots of places which lent their name to elements, including that oddest of places, Ytterby, which has *4* named for it.
Can you name the Scottish Highland village after which an element is named?
Six distinct colonies, including the British colony of “Gold Coast”, which is present-day Ghana. (Many of the other former colonies are provinces within Ghana.)
I’m still trying to think o a better answer.
Nope, can’t think of a better example than Argentina, though I don’t particularly associate it with silver. That’s more Peru and Bolivia, IME.
I thought someone thought it was worth so naming the country *and* a city: La Plata. (I think this is right – don’t have my books on the elements at hand.)
Cats allergic to cat hair?
Can you say Antihistamine.
Yes, I can 🙂
Antihistamine
Cat bless you!
Listening to Radio NZ on my way home late last night i listened to an interview with an american scientist about ‘big troubles’ with cat gut microbes (dogs as well) and it’s a $4 billion plus problem in the US alone. Around 10% of cats are effected by it.
It’s a messy problem and not easily pinned down and fixed as they can’t source it’s origin.
Soil and external environment i think and unfortunately i cannot source a link (i tried) Sneezy at one end and runny at the other? changing the diet might not do it.