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Subject: Re: Another anagram
Author: clevelandkentevans   (Authenticated as clevelandkentevans)
Date: July 15, 2012 at 6:49:39 AM
Reply to: Another anagram by ClaudiaS
Iracema, a name found in Brazil, is a sort of "half-example". Though it may mean "made of honey" in the Tupi language, the author Jose de Alencar seems to have chosen it for the heroine of an 1865 novel because it also is an anagram of "America".

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