Where does the saying "to doublecross someone" come from and what does is originally mean ? Two crosses ?
There is no definite origin but there are two possible stories of how it might have originated:
In the 1800s the word cross meant to fix a horse race. Double cross on the other hand was used to describe a fixed horse race where the horse was supposed to lose but at a later point turning it around to make it win again.
There is also the story about the London bounty hunter Jonathan Wilde, employed by the court, who kept a list of those criminals and others who he had done business with. When someone lost their value to him or cheated on him he added a second cross and turned them in to the authorities.
Eventually he was betrayed and hanged.
Jonathan Wild is famous today not so much for setting the example for organised crime as for the uses satirists made of his story.
When Wild was hanged, the papers were filled with accounts of his life, collections of his sayings, farewell speeches and the like. Daniel Defoe wrote one narrative for Applebee's Journal in May and then had published True and Genuine Account of the Life and Actions of the Late Jonathan Wild in June 1725. This work competed with another that claimed to have excerpts from Wild's diaries. The illustration above is from the frontispiece to the "True Effigy of Mr. Jonathan Wild," a companion piece to one of the pamphlets purporting to offer the thief-taker's biography.
Criminal biography was a genre. These works offered a touching account of need, a fall from innocence, sex, violence and then repentance or a tearful end. Public fascination with the dark side of human nature and with the causes of evil, has never waned and the market for mass-produced accounts was large.
By 1701, there had been a Lives of the Gamesters (often appended to Charles Cotton's The Compleat Gamester), about notorious gamblers. In 1714 Captain Alexander Smith had written the best-selling Complete Lives of the Most Notorious Highwaymen. Defoe himself was no stranger to this market: his Moll Flanders was published in 1722. By 1725, Defoe had written a History and a Narrative of the life of Jack Sheppard (see above). Moll Flanders may be based on the life of one Moll King, who lived with Mary Mollineaux/Milliner, Wild's first mistress.
The figures of Peachum and Macheath were picked up by Bertolt Brecht for his updating of Gay's opera as The Threepenny Opera. The Sheppard character, Macheath, is the "hero" of the song Mack the Knife.
In Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes novel, The Valley of Fear, the arch-villain Professor Moriarty is referred to as a latter-day Jonathan Wild by Holmes41]
Some of the merges were not very well received.
I think animal derived names originally were used to give the impression of power.You Nordmenn call them bjorn, which is also a name given to boys. Why would someone call their child bear?
Rule 1: You don't talk about the fight club....
The Mithraism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithraism is poorly understood, for example, because it was a "secret religion", which means that its members were not allowed to speakl about it. So, most knowledge about it is lost.
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The importance of correct grammar:
Last year or the year before that someone sprayed that on a REAL roman wall within Cologne. It wasn't seen as funny by the local Archaeologists.
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Another expression: "Gammel Erik"="Old Eric" which means "the devil".