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To: DakotaGator

***Barns are normally painted red because farmers living in a sea of green are visually starved for red.***

I read that farmers 160 years ago painted barns and schools red is because they mixed their own paint, and the cheapest powder paint pigment was red.


13 posted on 05/21/2013 10:59:26 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (When someone burns a cross on your lawn, the best firehose is an AK-47.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar; fini

There’s an aspect I had not encountered.

Thanks!


19 posted on 05/22/2013 8:35:01 AM PDT by DakotaGator (Weep for the lost Republic! And keep your powder dry!!)
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