I thought mascara was a hindi word so far

BEHIND THE WORDS:

The next time you hear these words I hope you remember their stories too.

ECHO:

The Greeks named the phenomenon of reverberation of sound through reflection as echo.On looking for a reason and some background for this word ,I found this story.Zeus was a Greek God and his wife was Hera.Zeus asked Echo to accompany his wife Hera whenever He has to do some business that Vera does not like.And so Echo engaged in good and interesting conversations with Vera to take away her focus off of what Zeus is upto.But later Vera found out about their plan.Feeling cheated,vera cursed Echo that she could only speak only which was spoken to her.

MASCARA:

The film mummy gave a good picture of how the ancient Egypt would look.I mean desert everywhere and hot like a hell.The Egyptians in the effort to protect their eyes from the sun,applied kohl (mascara or something like eyeliner)to their eyes.Seems they did not have coolers at that time.Good for us ,we have both mascara and coolers now.But anyways we can’t show off with mascara and coolers at the same time.whatever,back to the story,the Arabs did not like the practice of applying kohl to eyes.So they called it ’masq hara’ meaning the clown.And the name stuck but people forgot what it means.

BEDLAM:

Sometimes it just takes a rumour for a word  like bedlam to be created.There is going to be a scary reason.watch out. St. Mary of Bethlehem's hospital is  in London.Long long back, there was a rumour that some of the patients of that hospital were treated badly and there were patients inside the hospital wandering with chains and this rumour spread,spread and spread till Bethlehem became bedlam and bedlam referred to a place full of chaos and disorder.End of story.