Even people who know much about American music often confuse the hammered dulcimer ... It spread from there across North Africa and was brought into Europe by the Spanish Moors during the 12th century ...
During his twilight years, American author Mark Twain noted that ... for a river that healed the ravages of age. During the 12th century A.D., a king known to Europeans as Prester John supposedly ...
The word spaghetti is plural of the Italian word spaghetto, which is a diminutive of spago, meaning “thin  string” or “twine.