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Cerberus roughly translates into "Spotted One/Spot" or "Speckled" (debatedly). Was naming a dog "Spot" already a trope in ancient Greece, or is Cerberus the first of a long list of dogs named "Spot".
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What memorials/monuments, if any, has the USA donated to other countries that is not about the US in anyway.
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What came first? The common trope/joke to name a dog "Spot"? Or the naming of Cerberus, the three-headed dog of Hades, which translates into "Spotted".
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"Women and children first!" - What commonly became of the survivors of the Titanic without their main source of income (the husbands)?
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Why does the word "potion" not see any use in modern medicine? Was it ever regularly used to describe medicine?
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