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The conservation and restoration of illuminated manuscripts is the care and treatment of illuminated manuscripts which have cultural and historical significance so that they may be viewed, read, and studied now and in the future. It is a specialty case of the conservation and restoration of parchment within the field of conservation and ...
Purple has long been associated with royalty, originally because Tyrian purple dye—made from the secretions of sea snails—was extremely expensive in antiquity. Purple was the color worn by Roman magistrates; it became the imperial color worn by the rulers of the Byzantine Empire and the Holy Roman Empire , and later by Roman Catholic bishops .
Plant: Meaning: Region or culture: Asparagus foliage : Fascination Europe: Bamboo: Longevity, strength, and grace China: Green willow: False love Britain: Mistletoe: Used to signify a meeting place where no violence could take place
Porphyry (geology) Porphyry ( / ˈpɔːrfəri / POR-fə-ree) is any of various granites or igneous rocks with coarse-grained crystals such as feldspar or quartz dispersed in a fine-grained silicate -rich, generally aphanitic matrix or groundmass. In its non-geologic, traditional use, the term porphyry usually refers to the purple-red form of ...
Today's Wordle Answer for #1088 on Tuesday, June 11, 2024. Today's Wordle answer on Tuesday, June 11, 2024, is SWUNG. How'd you do?
The Greek intellectual is said by Athenaeus to have studied arguments and erroneous word usage so intensely that he wasted away and starved to death. British classicist Alan Cameron speculates that Philitas died from a wasting disease which his contemporaries joked was caused by his pedantry. Zeno of Citium: c. 262 BC
Today's Wordle Answer for #1089 on Wednesday, June 12, 2024. Today's Wordle answer on Wednesday, June 12, 2024, is DETER. How'd you do?
The English suffixes -phobia, -phobic, -phobe (from Greek φόβος phobos, "fear") occur in technical usage in psychiatry to construct words that describe irrational, abnormal, unwarranted, persistent, or disabling fear as a mental disorder (e.g. agoraphobia), in chemistry to describe chemical aversions (e.g. hydrophobic), in biology to describe organisms that dislike certain conditions (e.g ...