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Unless you watch C-SPAN, you missed this, but here's an interesting insight to American-European differences from the UK Foreign Minister: "But Europeans tend to see the United States through a different prism." If the Europeans were perusing Salon's article about online dating services, that prism might be even more distorted. Other culture meldings of note: wanna bank at Wal-Mart? If the archaeologists are to be believed, this guy needed a bank. Interesting; apparently the rule of thumb for measuring Bronze Age finds is "rich"=four or five objects; this guy had over one hundred.

Here's an idea which probably could be put into practice in the US: archiving dialects electronically. Keeping (or bringing back) old forms of culture is also at the root of purple carrots. Seeing red rather than purple are several museums who had sixty Old Masters stolen and destroyed. The perp confessed, but his moll escaped and passed the word of his capture to his mum, who'd been harboring the goods.