Sunday, October 30, 2016

Post IX - ABC

A as in Academic Dress 
(science field)


B as in Blood Gas Control 
(patent)


C as in Chicha 
(Peruvian drink with amaranth seeds)


D as in Draconian


E as in Epitoge


F as in Finance

G as in Genio Navale


H as in Heraldry 
(Amaranth found in at least one grant of arms to a Bohemian knight in 1701)


I as in India 
(Amaranth is very present in indian culinary)

L as in Louis Vuitton
M as in Mount Olympus
(place that was believed to grow Amaranth in the Greek mythology)



N as in Nightwish



O as in Order of the Amaranth
(Masonic-affiliated organization for Master Masons and their Ladies founded in 1873)


P as in pre-Columbian Aztecs 
(people that had amaranth's grains very present in their diets)


Q as in Quilete (another name to the Amaranth plant)




R as in Reggio Calabria 
(it's the official color of the city)


S as in Scarlet Hair


T as in Taco Bell 
U as in Università di Bologna


V as in Velvet Flower 
(another name to the amaranth plant)



Z as in Zinc 
(one of the minerals in amaranth's seeds)




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