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To: Ezekiel

I graduated with Art. Each morning when he headed off to school, his father said “Bye, son.”


28 posted on 12/03/2025 7:06:02 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Kudos to the Admin Moderator, reason: "Randspam" [ 4354167 ])
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To: SunkenCiv

Bi-nomial nomenclature.

Wow, it turns out it’s just not how people normally see things (or how normal people see things) —

βίσονας

Greek

Alternative forms
βίσωνας m (vísonas)

Etymology
From Ancient Greek βίσων (bísōn), a 2nd century borrowing from Proto-Germanic *wisundaz (“bison, wisent”) (see for full etymology).

Noun
βίσονας • (vísonas) m (plural βίσονες)

bison

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%B2%CE%AF%CF%83%CE%BF%CE%BD%CE%B1%CF%82#Greek

No wonder these rock artists were big into bison. How many times do we see the Bs and Vs swap around in linguistic-animaly world?

They had the vision! (Go big or go home.)

>>>”But it didn’t stop there,” Boyd explained to Texas State. “Using the same graphic style, symbol system, and rules of paint application, they continued to create these visual manuscripts for more than 4,000 years.<<<


33 posted on 12/04/2025 2:56:34 AM PST by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". 🔴 Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with MARS ♂️, aka every man)
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