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Here's another duplication of definite articles from the same part of the world as the La Brea Tarpits: Anaheim lost out to its more powerful neighbor when their American League baseball team was renamed
"The Los Angeles Angels (of Anaheim)"--the the angels angels (of Anaheim).
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About the batteries... I'm a (very small) manufacturer of battery-powered devices. Although I do ship my goods with batteries, I have some insight into why others might not. One big reason is that they're HEAVY. It adds substantially to the shipping cost, and also to the risk of damage due to sudden acceleration (bumps and drops) during shipping.
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The word alarm contains a disguised definite article, as it is derived, via the French alarme, from the Italian all'arme! (to arms!). Interestingly, the word alkahest, mentioned in connection with alchemy on Monday, is cod Arabic, coined by Paracelsus. Incidentally, my surname, Tremberth, contains a vestigial INdefinite article, the Cornish an; in the development of the name tre an berth became trenberth, then was altered to tremberth through a change in spelling I noted in the 1881 UK census
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The included article is well-known in astronomy. Many ancient star names were simply the name of an object, or the star's location in a constellation. During the dark ages, much of the knowledge of the sky was preserved by the Arabs who translated the meanings into Arabic. When the names were translated from Arabic back into European languages, the Arabic name was often used in part or in whole and the "al" was often included in the star name. Hence there are over 100 star names beginning in "al", all the way from Aladfar from "al Athfar" meaning "the talons" to Alzirr from "Al Zirr," meaning "the Button".
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