But it was closer when there were dinosaurs. It had a better view!

Frequently, it is on the other side of the Earth, so people can do stuff in privacy.

I believe it's because Arkansas came through the French and Kansas did not.

No, it's not true at all. You are taxed on income, not the increase in wealth. I can have my wealth plummet due to a stock market drop, but owe taxes on my interest income even as my wealth drops. I can go into debt on my $100K income so my wealth is negative, but I still owe taxes on the $100K. Wealth has nothing to do with it except maybe if I die with more than 11 million, and then it is the change of ownership that is taxed--a kind of transaction.

Went down with my grandson, who is into maps. Then went to the Boston Library.

No, your house or stock can increase in value, changing your net worth, but it is not taxable until you sell it.

Tax fraud is easier to prove.

Since you are required to provide the return, there is a self-incrimination issue involved.

Florence, which is Firenze in Italian, is called Florence and variants in other countries because when Julius Caesar settled men there it was called "Florentia". "Germany" comes from the Latin as well. Switzerland in some contexts is "Confoederatio Helvetica", again from the Latin, but then there are 4 languages used there. Switzerland comes from the name of one of the original provinces, Schwyz.

US states like Kansas and Arkansas are named for rivers named for native tribes, much modified. Arkansas got passed through French. Canada was a misunderstanding; it seems to have been named for the Huron word for "settlement" (Kanata) based on directions Cartier was given to Stadacona (later Quebec.)

Japan may have been given its name based on the name the Chinese (Riben) or the Malaysians (Japung) called it, both referring to the land to the East (Land of the Rising Sun.) The Japanese changed from calling it Yamato to calling it Nippon.

Yes, that's far worse, but I never encountered that in real code. The rules for using alter were:

1. Don't use it.

2. If you use it, have any GOTO referenced by it leave off the destination in code. Thus, it was just GOTO. by itself on the line with a period, to clue the programmer it was a trap.

In COBOL the goto didn't even have to specify the destination. You could do an ALTER and have it go somewhere else. Try reading that.

GOTOs are bad but ALTER is Satanic.

I'm here from the Vegetable Defense League, you lentil gobbling kingdomist. Those legumes want to live!

A melanin variant can produce an orange shade. Tigers look very bright to us, but not to their prey, which can't make out the redness.