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Post by nautiker on Jan 22, 2013 7:50:53 GMT
I admit I preprared that post yesterday already
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 22, 2013 16:39:18 GMT
p.s. bixaorellana - crayon? don't confuse Kassel with Faber-Castell (headquarters located near Nuremberg) ;D People of my age group knew a certain dark-blue as "Prussian blue" when we were little enough to be using Crayola™ crayons. But in 1958 "In response to educators' requests, 'Prussian blue' is renamed 'midnight blue'. Teachers felt that children were no longer familiar enough with Prussian history to recognize that this crayon color referred to the famous deep-blue uniforms of Prussian soldiers." source Heaven forbid that the "educators should edify the their little charges with a dollop of history.
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Post by nautiker on Jan 22, 2013 17:04:57 GMT
ah, so there's a different confusion given that at times there were hundreds(!) of kingdoms/princedoms/duchies in the area that later was to become Germany, and given Friedrich is/was a pretty popular name (some reason why there's the nickname 'Fritz'), actually you can pick from literally dozens of Friedrich II.: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_IIindeed, Friedrich II 'the Great' is probably best known (besides Friedrich II the Holy Roman Emperor), however I was referring to the one from Hessen-Kassel interesting, the term 'Prussian blue' is still familiar to me, yet a quick check showed it seemingly has been replaced in school paintboxes by ultramarine in the late 80's already. wonder whether kids today will ever know about cardinal red...
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Post by mossie on Jan 22, 2013 20:46:16 GMT
Heaven help them if someone mentions "Imperial red" The PC merchants are getting into overdrive as I plonk.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2013 21:28:08 GMT
I can think of a lot of places where the colour "chartreuse" would be considered inappropriate.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 23, 2013 0:07:58 GMT
re: those reds ~~ Indian Red was renamed Chestnut in 1999 due to concern that some children thought the crayon color represented the skin color of Native Americans. According to the company, however, the name originally referred to a reddish-brown pigment from India that is used in artists' oil paint. sourceI reiterate my remark about educating kids rather than catering to real or perceived ignorance. Kerouac, I don't understand the chartreuse reference. All I know is that when I asked what color that was, my mother replied, "mashed worm green".
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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2013 6:43:40 GMT
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Post by nautiker on Jan 27, 2013 12:19:01 GMT
Jan 27th - anniversary of the liberation of the KZ Auschwitz by Soviet forces, which has become the Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel, Germany and the UK, as well as by the UN. interesting to note that the US have a different memorial date (related to their liberation of Dachau), as well as Austria (liberation of Mauthausen by US army).
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 28, 2013 7:53:44 GMT
Happy anniversary to us!
I'm not quite sure which calendar our host forum uses -- Mayan? Julian? -- but it's informing us that we are now 3 years and 12 months old.
Can't remember if anyport was inaugurated on Feb. 6 or Feb 9, but we might as well start flinging confetti now. Wheeee!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2013 9:05:23 GMT
Actually, I seem to recall that it was around the 2nd or 3rd of February.
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Post by bjd on Jan 28, 2013 10:07:25 GMT
What about looking at the dates of the first posts?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2013 12:09:06 GMT
Yes, happy birthday and good luck for the next 3 years, 12 month and 0 days. But a little bit back to Prussian blue. This pigment used in the 18th century for the army is always used but different today. It is send to Japan against the radiation damage in Fukushima. Today it is also called "Berliner Blau"
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2013 12:16:29 GMT
"What's for dinner tonight?" began on 2 February 2009.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 28, 2013 16:06:57 GMT
What about looking at the dates of the first posts? Yeah, I might do that ~~ if there were a prize involved. Kerouac is right, though, in that this kicked off earlier in February. I'm thinking it might have been Palesa who made the first post, which was called something like "is this where the party is". Regards, that's interesting about the use of the color against radiation. When I looked it up before, one of the first things to come up was its chemical composition. Hold on ............ Huh! The second hit if you google prussian blue is about its use against radiation: www.bt.cdc.gov/radiation/prussianblue.aspThe first hit is about its chemical makeup & the various uses for Prussian/Berlin blue: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussian_blue
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2013 17:46:03 GMT
I'm surprised that you have not yet mentioned the infamous "flesh" tone crayola.
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Post by htmb on Jan 28, 2013 20:32:09 GMT
I'm surprised that you have not yet mentioned the infamous "flesh" tone crayola yet. Well, it's been on my mind. It always totally confounded me as a young child.
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Post by htmb on Jan 28, 2013 20:34:32 GMT
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Post by nautiker on Jan 30, 2013 7:09:41 GMT
there's always something to remind of Germany's darkest age:
Jan. 30th: 80th anniversary of Hitler's Machtergreifung ('seizure of power'), which is quite some euphemism since he got the power officialy devolved from the conservatives, who planned to use him as a sock monkey (quote Reichskanzler Franz von Papen: "In zwei Monaten haben wir Hitler in die Ecke gedrückt, dass er quietscht!" - 'In two months time we'll have him cornenered that he'll squeak!')...
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 4, 2013 18:35:25 GMT
It's always appropriate to highlight photographers on anyport ~~ born February 4, 1902: Manuel Álvarez Bravo died Oct. 19, 2002click photo to access slideshowanother slideshow here
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Post by nautiker on Feb 5, 2013 7:14:54 GMT
a bit late, yet I understand there are parts of the world where it's still the 4th:
100th birthday of Rosa Parks, though not the first to refuse clearing her seat for a white, her behaviour turned into an iconic action for the fight against racial segregation...
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2013 8:51:45 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2013 15:11:19 GMT
Happy Mardi Gras everyone!!!!! Despite a shaky forecast we're hitting the streets!!!!!!!!!!!! Not our usual plan (bikes) but, streetcars are running to a certain point and then hoofing it to the French Quarter and some friends houses and of course the streets.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 12, 2013 16:41:58 GMT
Great! Have fun, be safe, & be sure to tell T to have a nice Mardi Gras day from me. ;D
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Post by lagatta on Feb 12, 2013 17:17:08 GMT
There is no longer a major Carnaval in Montréal - though long ago it was as much a tradition here as in Québec City.
Some of you may well imagine how interested I am in travelling there to take part in activities in the cold (and it is usually some degrees colder there than here).
A friend who was travelling in Argentina (her native country) and Brazil took part in a small Carnaval celebration in a town that was NOT Rio. It looked like great fun, with improvised floats and costumes.
Some Germans thought the resignation of the Pope was a Mardi Gras joke; evidently telling tall tales is a seasonal tradition in German-speaking cities where the holiday is celebrated.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 12, 2013 17:48:29 GMT
;D I'll bet you that tradition has led to some awkward moments!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2013 21:12:38 GMT
Actually, I kind of thought that the pope's resignation was timed to make sure there would be a new pope before Easter. He could have created havoc if he had resigned 30 days from now.
Paris does not celebrate Mardi Gras either, only the fringe of towns bordering Belgium. Therefore today I was in Belgium for a report. Perhaps I will post it one of these days.
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Post by nautiker on Feb 25, 2013 22:09:09 GMT
today would have been the 100th birthday of Gert Fröbe, often considered one of the best Bond enemies. like so many movie villains, he was a funny chap in real life, gifted reciter of Morgenstern lyrics, who suffered from people actually switching sidewalks when they saw him come...
p.s. still trying to work out whether I'd enjoy having a station for suburban trains named after me...
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 25, 2013 22:52:55 GMT
Paris does not celebrate Mardi Gras either Interesting. Does that date back to the secularization of France in the 1800s? And doesn't the movie "Hunchback of Notre Dame" begin with Quasimodo being crowned the king of misrule? still trying to work out whether I'd enjoy having a station for suburban trains named after me... Are you in imminent danger of being made eminent in this way, Nautiker?
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Post by nautiker on Feb 26, 2013 12:50:29 GMT
no imminent danger, no, though with some hard work I might still achieve having a roundabout in the local trading estate area named after me - I'll see what I can do to prevent this...
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 26, 2013 17:14:45 GMT
Well, should you attain those heights, we'll just pretend we don't know you, so that you can maintain a normal low-key life. Okay?
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