America
America is named after Amerigo Vespucci. Amerigo was a ship navigator and first came to the new world in 1499. He felt that Columbus had discovered a new continent instead of a new route to Asia, and wrote of this in his letters. These letters made him a celebrity and in 1507 cartographer Martin Waldseemueller created a map showing the new world as "America".
A picture paints a thousand words
This term which means a story told by pictures as well as a vast amount of descriptive text comes from the quotation 'One picture is worth ten thousand words', Frederick R. Barnard in Printer's Ink, 8 Dec 1921 retelling a Chinese proverb. .
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A house divided against itself cannot stand
This term's origin comes from the bible
(Matthew 12:25). 'And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand'.
A leopard can't change his spots
When people state that they can't change who they are--their nature--they sometimes use the phrase "A leopard can't change his spots" (it's used in much the same way as "you can't teach an old dog new tricks"). The phrase about leopards is descended from the Bible, in the book of Jeremiah: "Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots?" (Jer 13:23)
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