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AareyBaba
2661 days ago
TIL. "
The English loanword juggernaut in the sense of "a huge wagon bearing an image of a Hindu god" is from the 17th century, inspired by the Jagannatha Temple in Puri, Odisha
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juggernaut
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snigdha
2661 days ago
Ha - yes. Also have you seen this 1865 news article from the New York Times about The Tenth Avenue Juggernaut?
https://www.nytimes.com/1865/03/26/archives/the-tenthavenue-...
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