gotta do something about these big-nose peoplepic.twitter.com/kHEwH4S6Qr
these people who live on Precambrian rock in the Central Russian uplands do have enormous noses. they have black (Caucasus) admixture that manifests not so much in pigment (like in Ukraine) as discordant beakspic.twitter.com/CwPU833jDV
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'Orel' is the Russian word for 'Eagle'
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that is a later semantic development. it used to mean “large bird” more generally and probably originally referred to the OSTRICH, which was formerly not uncommon in much of Eurasia
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