217. Chuck Pelto:
8:10 And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;
8:11 And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.
you have got to be kiding? For starters the Ukrainian word chornobyl refers to mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris) and not Wormwood (Artemisia absinthium) which to anybody who knows their botany would never be called ‘black grass’ or ‘black stalks’. Chorny means black in Russian and Slavic languages. The Russian word for Wormwood is Polyn as in most Slavic languages – hence the Polish name for Absinth is Piolunowka.
That is just a start – the rest is just too stupid to argue with this late at night.
