I head this word defined...it's origens I mean...on a talk show awhile back...I think it was a CNN newscast...brb...
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The term was newly coined in 1688 by Johannes Hofer (1669-1752), a Swiss medical student. The word is made up of two Greek roots (νόστος = nostos = returning home, and άλγος = algos = pain/longing), to refer to "the pain a sick person feels because he wishes to return to his native land, and fears never to see it again". This neologism was so successful that people forgot its origin. Homesickness is often given as a synonym for nostalgia.
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Went to Mariposa for a day...and that's all it takes to be homesick for the Valley...it's always a pinch myself and to see if it's real when the Bus crosses Pohono Bridge...and I see the 'falls'...
Carrier was on again....PBS....then Nat Geo with a scary bit on gangs...a kinda "evil"-lution tale....now one on about remarkable self rescues...'super human strength'......
There's another pic from that USS Augusta site I want to snag...both of these...this one and the crew one before...were on ebay and I tried to get them...I read so much studying out the Panay...much of it things being offered on ebay...photos and memorabilia from Old Shanghai...of the 1930s...and there's a strong sense of Nostalgia that emanates from those years...not sure why...some of it is in the Indiana Jones movies...anyway...going to get the pic..brb...
and this is the tale of Truman aboard the Augusta...when the Hiroshima bomb was dropped...
The lower pic may not be in Shanghai...from this site...
DavidDavid
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