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Hommage to Lise Meitner at the entrance of Humboldt University, Berlin
Wednesday, 9 September 2015
Friday, 28 August 2015
Reasons why I love the German language I
Reason nº 1:
Because "common sense" translates as ...
Healthy human understanding
(gesund Menschenverstand)
...brilliant
Saturday, 6 June 2015
About painting
George Wimpenny, Clara Potts sitting at an easel painting a still life of flowers, 1897
Madrid Book Fair 2015
Open air fair at the Retiro park in Madrid, from 29th May to 14th June
Go for the books, go for the lively atmosphere too.
Friday, 3 April 2015
Did you know...?
...that the words "text" and "textile" are family?
Why?
Because they both derive from the latin word "textus", that meant "thing woven",
(textus being the past participle stem of texere which meant "to weave, to join, fit together, braid, interweave, construct, fabricate, build,")
Can you think of ways in which a text is "woven"?
Yep, yet another joy thanks to the Online Etymology Dictionary
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