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TODAY'S WORD/PHRASE

GIBBERISH: GIBBERISH indicates the style of Geber, the Arabian, who was the  greatest alchemist of the eleventh century and who wrote several  treatises on "the art of making gold" in the usual mystical jargon,  because the ecclesiastics would have put to death anyone who openly  written on the subject.  Friar Bacon gives a specimen of the gibberish,  while giving the prescription for gun-powder,                                            Set tamen sals petrae                                           Lurn move Cap Urbe                                           Ei Sulphurics   The second line is merely ...

TODAY'S QUOTE

LET  THE  RAIN  KISS  YOU LET THE RAIN BEAT UPON YOUR  HEAD WITH  SILVER  LIQUID  DROPS LET  THE  RAIN  SING  YOU  A  LULLABY                                                               - Langson Hughes