One of the celestial bodies listed in The Dictionary of Minor Planet Names(Amazon) is called Sumaura. It’s the name of the oldest private elementary school in Kobe, Japan, and was suggested by the discoverer’s son. This is part of a...
Megan from East Hampton, New York, asks why an elementary school is sometimes called a grammar school when pupils study far more than grammar. The name reaches back to medieval church and monastery schools, or scolae grammaticales, where Latin...