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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
- 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
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- xw posted on 08/29/2004For the Olympic Games, Athens 2004 Armand D'Angour Blessed precinct of the land of Athena Immortal City of Theseus and of the sons of Erechtheus, We will sing of you, whence Athenians of old And heroes once set forth to the Games Of shining Olympia. Now as for a second time with good fortune You have welcomed these contests here Let us celebrate you with Pindaric song. come to the world's centre, young men and women, Gathering from countless lands afar, Rejoicing in strength and firm in
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