1943: Newspapers Named for Gods Apr 10, 2020

As mentioned yesterday, time is very relevant for forming the names of newspapers old and new, but this is not the only way. One common was also with the names of the places they were printed, especially as more and more newspapers came about, but also some, along with other still recognizable names like '—magazine', or '—examiner' we were names from Denmark, Hungary, and England including 'Mercurius' (or 'Mercury', as one might say in English) who was the messenger-god in Roman mythology.

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