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- xwwenzhai posted on 09/07/2004
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- xw posted on 09/07/2004Tyrian purple The chemist Sir Humphry Davy had, however, earlier concluded tat the Greek and Roman painters had almost the same colours as those employed by the great Italian masters at the period of the revival of the arts in italy. They had indeed the advantage over them in two colours, the Vestorian or Egyptian azure and the Tyrian or marine purple. The despised dyers, clothiers, artists, decorators and cavalry-men of antiquity, indeed all sho in their callings then used colour terms with precisio
- С posted on 08/14/2004
- xw posted on 09/07/2004In 1690 John Locke (1632-1704) published his Essay concerning Human Understanding, the greater part of which he wrote while living in Holland. Locke dealt with ideas and words as the great instruments of knowledge and stated: the ends of language in our discourse with others being chiefly these three: first, to make known one mans thoughts or ideas to another. Secondly, to do it with as much ease and quickness as is possible; and thirdly, thereby to convey the knowledge of things. Language is eith
- xw posted on 09/07/2004ORINGIN OF THE LATIN ALPHABET The Latin alphabet by the time of Cicero(106-43BC) consisted of 21 letters derived and modified from the Greek alphabet, possibly through direct contact with the Greek colonists at cumae in the Bay of Naples, more probably through the intermediary of the widely trading piratical Etruscans of northern Italy, who had contended with the Greks for maritime supremacy while the Romans were but land-bound farmers in Latium and who had already adopted an alphabet of Greet origin i
- maya posted on 09/07/2004ǵͳ˵ԽԽдˣ˵״εǰƹ: (Reuters) - President Bush (news - web sites) offered an unexpected reason on Monday for cracking down on frivolous medical lawsuits: "Too many OB-GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across this country." The Republican president, long known for verbal and grammatical lapses, included the anecdote about obstetrician gynecologists in his stump speech attacking Democratic presidential rival Sen. John Kerry (new
- Hanson posted on 09/07/2004ʷǰгѪ̤յѳ̼Ҵļڣû˼ǵ˶ķܶJOE HILLеʫˣ1914ݱıɱǹѱ硣ΪʫˣΪݾľ˸̾Ϣ Born in Gavle, Sweden, on 7 October 1879, Joe Hill, also known as Joseph Hillstrom and Joel Hagglund, was an American labor songwriter and martyr who was executed in Salt Lake City on 19 November 1915. He immigrated to the lower east side Bowery section of New York City via Ellis Islan
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- maya posted on 09/07/2004ҵΧϲȫpaasionate democrates, ҵʦGrutej Ҳ⡣ εѡԤУKerryֵùֽٲŬlose the election ˭˵ûģǸdie hard democrat! George W do you know what does W stand for? it stands for wrong! I listened to Frank Sontag on KLOS and heard the most mindblowing interview about the Bush administration from Craig B Hulett, who, like Michael Moore, has tried to bring critical things about this a
- mayaHanson posted on 09/07/2004In celebration of Labor's Day, few people think of its origin and tend to take it for granted. The Knights of Labor had their first Labor Day parade in New York in 1882. Two years later, they formally designated the first Monday in September as Labor Day. In 1894, Congress made it a legal Federal holiday. The most enduring legacy to the trade-union movement was their music. One of their most prolific songwriters was Joe Hill, a Swedish-born laborer. In 1914, Hill was convicted of murderer; his executio
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