The Middle Toe of the Right Foot The Middle Toe of the Right Foot "The Middle Toe of the Right Foot" is a ghost story by American Civil War soldier, wit, and writer Ambrose Bierce. It was first published in "The San Francisco Examiner" on April 17, 1890 and was reprinted the following year as part of "Tales of Soldiers and Civilians". The plot was apparently inspired by the front page "Examiner" news story from November 14, 1888 which described "an improbable duel with bowie knives in a suitably darkened room". A man named Manton has horribly killed his two children and his wife, the latter of
Names for the human species "Gaian") is frequently used, as it were naming humanity by its planet of origin. Incidentally, this situation parallels the naming motive of ancient terms for humanity, including "human" ("homo", "humanus") itself, derived from a word for "earth" to contrast humans as earth-bound with celestial beings (i.e. deities) in mythology. Names for the human species The common name of the human species in English is historically "man" (from Germanic), often replaced by the Latinate "human" (since the 16th century). In addition to the generally accepted taxonomic name "Homo sapiens" (Latin: "sapient man", Linnaeus 1758), other Latin-based names for the human species