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The Bible Described it as the Perfect, Pure Blue..for 2,000 Yrs, Everyone Forgot What it Looked Like
The Los Angeles Times ^
| 8/10/18
| Noga Tarnopolsky
Posted on 09/19/2018 7:00:22 AM PDT by marshmallow
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Full headline: The Bible described it as the perfect, pure blue. And then for nearly 2,000 years, everyone forgot what it looked like
To: marshmallow
Wonder if this was Lydia’s “purple” in Acts.
To: marshmallow
Douglas Adams wrote about “The Hooloovoo”
A super-intelligent shade of the color blue.
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09/19/2018 7:04:50 AM PDT
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Celerity
To: marshmallow
Lapis Lazuli
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09/19/2018 7:08:10 AM PDT
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rjsimmon
(The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
To: marshmallow
An orthodox jew I worked with in the mid-90’s told me about this. They had a blue thread in their “apron”, but the snail went extinct so, what to do. They voted on whether to find some other source to have a blue thread, or just go without. They voted to go without.
All that law stuff in the old testament is the equivalent of the laws of the US. It is the law crated for a theocracy - A theocracy that no longer exists. That is why so much of it, regarding food, etc, is so similar - yet intentionally different in some ways - to cultures contemporaneous with theirs.
To: rjsimmon
Somebody did some major color changes on the Tut mask to match with the other blue objects....sheesh.
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posted on
09/19/2018 7:13:05 AM PDT
by
Covenantor
(Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
To: marshmallow
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09/19/2018 7:14:11 AM PDT
by
Jamestown1630
("A Republic, if you can keep it")
To: Covenantor
It looks like when I saw it.
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09/19/2018 7:18:48 AM PDT
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rjsimmon
(The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
To: cuban leaf
Now an exhibit at the Bible Lands Museum, Out of the Blue explores the mystery of how the alluring color became associated with nobility and divinity alike, how it was lost and then found, and even offers visitors take-home kits to create blue cotton thread the way Jesus and his followers did long ago. I knew that there had to be a book review or a traveling museum piece somewhere to get a reporter to look at this.
And now I want to see the exhibit myself. So it worked.
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09/19/2018 7:20:33 AM PDT
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09/19/2018 7:22:42 AM PDT
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To: SunkenCiv
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09/19/2018 7:23:36 AM PDT
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Califreak
(Take Me Back To Constantinople)
To: marshmallow
Thanks for sharing! Very interesting!
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posted on
09/19/2018 7:24:46 AM PDT
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Maudeen
(http://ThereIsHopeinJesus.com/)
To: marshmallow
Wasnt that the Pantone color of the year 2008?
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posted on
09/19/2018 7:34:30 AM PDT
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Dr. Sivana
(There is no salvation in politics.)
To: rjsimmon
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09/19/2018 7:34:32 AM PDT
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Biggirl
("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
To: marshmallow
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09/19/2018 7:34:44 AM PDT
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Guardian Sebastian
(God Bless President Trump and Keep Him Safe)
To: rjsimmon
A form of colbalt blue, but a little bit lighter.
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09/19/2018 7:40:20 AM PDT
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Biggirl
("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
To: rjsimmon
That’s closer to what I saw at NYC Metropolitan Museum, the first stop of the King TuT tour. Somewhere I have the exhibit catalogue and a very large poster of the mask. Outstanding exhibit!
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09/19/2018 7:43:46 AM PDT
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Covenantor
(Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
To: cuban leaf
Yet in the USA, there is a plant called the indigo flower which produces a blue color.
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09/19/2018 7:44:45 AM PDT
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Biggirl
("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
To: marshmallow
To: Larry Lucido
LOL! (I miss those guys.)
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