Donna--

I think Hal Lindsey wrote in The Late Great Planet Earth about a flower that
grows near Chernobyl that has a name that means wormwood in English.  I
don't have access to my copy right now so I can't verify this.  Note: the
book was published before the accident.

For those who are too young to remember, Chernobyl is the location of the
Soviet nuclear reactor that had the serious accident.

See the following about Chernobyl and wormwood (they say that it is the name
of a plant, not the name Chernobyl, that is translated wormwood):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_accident
 

Have you clicked today?  http://www.thebiblesite.org

Pray hard!
Fear not!  Occupy.  Look up!

Ghoti
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I went to the wikipedia page you referenced and it says this:

Because of the inaccurate translation of "chernobyl" as wormwood, an urban
myth started among English-speaking people (probably mostly Christians) that
the Chernobyl accident was mentioned in the Bible:

And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven,
burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers,
and upon the fountains of waters; and the name of the star is called
Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men
died of the waters, because they were made bitter. -- Revelation 8:10-11
The story appears to have originated - or at least spread to the West - with
a New York Times article by Serge Schmemann (Chernobyl Fallout: Apocalyptic
Tale, July 25, 1986) in which an unnamed "prominent Russian writer" was
quoted as claiming the Ukrainian word for wormwood was chernobyl.

Actually, the Ukrainian ×îðíîáèëü (chornobyl) and its Russian equivalent
×åðíîáûëüíèê (chernobylnik) refer to the plant mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris).
Wormwood is a different plant, Artemisia absinthium, see the Chornobyl: Name
origin page for more detail.
 

But when I clicked on the link for Mugwort I get this:

Mugwort or Common Wormwood (Artemisia vulgaris),

I just think it funny that Wikipedia says its an urban myth that Chernobyl
means Wormwood, when it infact means Mugwort.  And accodring to Wikipedia
Mugwort is also called "Common Wormwood."

The right hand apparently doesn't know what the left hand is doing in this
case.  LOL