Posted on 08/05/08
Devastating cyclone takes its name from a flower
BANGKOK -- Cyclone Nargis, the tropical cyclone that tore into Myanmar's Irrawaddy delta killing at least 22,000 people and leaving a million people homeless, takes its name from the word for daffodil in Urdu.
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