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To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten

"...manganese. A lot of people don't even know what that is."

I couldn't find Mangana on the atlas. Is it near China?

89 posted on 07/24/2006 12:43:34 PM PDT by dashing doofus

To: dashing doofus

I couldn't find Mangana on the atlas. Is it near China?

ROTFL!!

99 posted on 07/24/2006 12:47:03 PM PDT by Starboard

To: dashing doofus; Starboard

"Manganese" is just Norman French for "Magnesian" - referring to the area of Greece called Magnesia, which is not far north of Athens.

Manganese oxide was known in the Middle Ages as "the Magnesian stone" and the Norman invaders of England called it manganese.

103 posted on 07/24/2006 12:51:36 PM PDT by wideawake ("The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten." - Calvin Coolidge)

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