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Re:Ancient Egyptian Stone-Drilling (1983) by unwind on Sunday May 12, 2024 @02:01AM (#40332528)
... and one of them has the last name "Gorelick" [1?]. Impressive study, happy I'm not a patient of his.

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptronym

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Re:Ancient Egyptian Stone-Drilling (1983) by rrr_oh_man on Sunday May 12, 2024 @08:08AM (#40333779)
Gorelik or Gorelick (Russian: Горелик; Belarusian: Гарэлік: Harelik) is a Jewish occupational surname historically denoting a vodka distiller or trader. Its etymology is Slavic, from Belarusian harelka (гарэлка), a calque from Polish gorzałka, itself from German geprant Wein 'burnt wine'.

So what?

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