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<blockquote data-quote="Michael Tree" data-source="post: 434936" data-attributes="member: 1455">Mary Pickford, the first big starlet of Hollywood, who was called &quot;America's Sweetheart&quot;, was Canadian.The term &quot;Devil's Advocate&quot; came from the the medieval church's process of canonizing a new saint.&nbsp; One priest, designated the devil's advocate, was responsible for arguing why the person should not be canonized.The word &quot;news&quot;, as in newspaper, was created as the plural of &quot;new&quot;.Finnish, Estonian, and Hungarian are all distantly related to Japanese and Korean.Japanese is not at all related to Chinese.&nbsp; They're as different as English and Japanese.The Basque langauage (from northern Spain and the Pyrenees mountains) is completely unrelated to all other languages on the earth.&nbsp; (A friend of mine has a casual theory that it's related to Atlantean <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> )In the middle ages Black clothing was extremely expensive, because it was so difficult to die cloth that dark.The ancient Romans used lead powder to sweeten their wine.A toga is not rectangular.&nbsp; It's more of a semi-circle in shape, and should be twice as long as the wearer's arm span.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Michael Tree, post: 434936, member: 1455"] Mary Pickford, the first big starlet of Hollywood, who was called "America's Sweetheart", was Canadian. The term "Devil's Advocate" came from the the medieval church's process of canonizing a new saint. One priest, designated the devil's advocate, was responsible for arguing why the person should [i]not[/i] be canonized. The word "news", as in newspaper, was created as the plural of "new". Finnish, Estonian, and Hungarian are all distantly related to Japanese and Korean. Japanese is not at all related to Chinese. They're as different as English and Japanese. The Basque langauage (from northern Spain and the Pyrenees mountains) is completely unrelated to all other languages on the earth. (A friend of mine has a casual theory that it's related to Atlantean ;) ) In the middle ages Black clothing was extremely expensive, because it was so difficult to die cloth that dark. The ancient Romans used lead powder to sweeten their wine. A toga is not rectangular. It's more of a semi-circle in shape, and should be twice as long as the wearer's arm span. [/QUOTE]

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