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Post by Komori on Nov 27, 2011 16:20:13 GMT -5
I'd learned in Art History classes years ago that Greek statues weren't the stark white marble that we see and know today. They were actually painted in bright colors. Well, I had no idea how bright, until I saw this article. funstuffcafe.com/true-colors-of-greek-statuesHoly Kau, those are tacky colors! XD
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2011 16:39:29 GMT -5
I'd learned in Art History classes years ago that Greek statues weren't the stark white marble that we see and know today. They were actually painted in bright colors. Well, I had no idea how bright, until I saw this article. funstuffcafe.com/true-colors-of-greek-statuesHoly Kau, those are tacky colors! XD That is so cool!
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Post by Gelquie on Nov 28, 2011 14:47:27 GMT -5
I'd learned in Art History classes years ago that Greek statues weren't the stark white marble that we see and know today. They were actually painted in bright colors. Well, I had no idea how bright, until I saw this article. funstuffcafe.com/true-colors-of-greek-statuesHoly Kau, those are tacky colors! XD That is cool. ^^ ...But you're right; the colors do seem pretty tacky to me. xD Oh well.
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Post by Yoyti on Nov 28, 2011 21:52:00 GMT -5
I'd learned in Art History classes years ago that Greek statues weren't the stark white marble that we see and know today. They were actually painted in bright colors. Well, I had no idea how bright, until I saw this article. funstuffcafe.com/true-colors-of-greek-statuesHoly Kau, those are tacky colors! XD ... I'm wondering if we should reconsider our description on modern art. ... Ancient Greece just got a lot less classy. Those statues are hurting my eyes. I'm taking an art class, and I knew the sculptures were painted, but I thought that that just meant there were some touch ups to give it some character. This is just crazy!
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Post by Gelquie on Nov 30, 2011 3:43:28 GMT -5
It turns out there is a word for a description of "darker than black". (An unofficial word, but nevertheless.) Fuligin.
Nevermind the fact that any color darker than black is impossible, but hey. xD
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Post by Celestial on Dec 1, 2011 11:49:11 GMT -5
One day, the Ottoman Emperor Suleiman the Magnificent saw a printed image of Charles V and the Pope together. Charles was hearing the Hapsburg crown and the Pope was wearing his papal crown. They both looked very smashing. So what Suleiman did was combine the two crowns into this enormous thing. The Ottoman sultan never wore crowns. Suleiman made that just to annoy Charles and the Pope.
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Post by Gelquie on Dec 14, 2011 7:16:38 GMT -5
I learned of the existence of the Liancourt Rocks, a set of 90 islands (2 large, the rest small) that lies between Korea and Japan. The Koreans call it "Dokdo" while the Japanese call it "Takeshima". Apparently, there's a long-standing territorial dispute over them between the two countries that's still going on. Probably gonna stay that way. All pretty much from wikipedia searching after seeing a youtube video on it from a Korean point of view. Here's the page.
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Post by Gelquie on Dec 28, 2011 18:21:17 GMT -5
"Today" (well, last night), I realized why some switches have the symbols | and o on them.
It's binary. It's actually 1 and 0. 1 means on, 0 means off.
(And I totally didn't catch on until I heard my boyfriend say that latter sentence. Then my mind went to switches and I went: "...Wait a minute!")
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Post by Omni on Dec 28, 2011 23:27:09 GMT -5
"Today" (well, last night), I realized why some switches have the symbols | and o on them. It's binary. It's actually 1 and 0. 1 means on, 0 means off. (And I totally didn't catch on until I heard my boyfriend say that latter sentence. Then my mind went to switches and I went: "... Wait a minute!") Yup. I actually didn't know that myself until a few months ago or so. XD Before that, I remembered '|' as 'on' by thinking 'online.' Also, the 'power' symbol is actually derived from this: Developers needed a symbol to represent both power-on and power-off for computers that had only one button to do both. So they mixed the line and the circle.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2011 22:58:52 GMT -5
Some laptops can run without batteries. They just need to be plugged into an outlet all the time. Hey, that knowledge saved my laptop from an overheating/possibly dying battery. (It's an ooooooold laptop.)
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Post by Gelquie on Dec 30, 2011 4:01:51 GMT -5
"Today" (well, last night), I realized why some switches have the symbols | and o on them. It's binary. It's actually 1 and 0. 1 means on, 0 means off. (And I totally didn't catch on until I heard my boyfriend say that latter sentence. Then my mind went to switches and I went: "... Wait a minute!") Yup. I actually didn't know that myself until a few months ago or so. XD Before that, I remembered '|' as 'on' by thinking 'online.' Also, the 'power' symbol is actually derived from this: Developers needed a symbol to represent both power-on and power-off for computers that had only one button to do both. So they mixed the line and the circle. Ah, I was thinking as much, but wasn't sure. That's pretty clever. :3 -- EDIT: I learned that vanilla extract is made from vanilla beans put in water and... vodka. (Well, the alcohol is cooked off when cooking with vanilla extract. But it does explain the smell. xD )
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Post by Ian Wolf-Park on Jan 4, 2012 20:34:28 GMT -5
Huh, never knew that eggnog (not the commercially made ones) contain alcohol, of all things. No wonder people do crazy things over the holidays because they essentially drank too much alcohol from the eggnog.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2012 22:00:48 GMT -5
Snails can live underwater.
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Post by Crystal on Jan 5, 2012 23:28:58 GMT -5
I'd learned in Art History classes years ago that Greek statues weren't the stark white marble that we see and know today. They were actually painted in bright colors. Well, I had no idea how bright, until I saw this article. funstuffcafe.com/true-colors-of-greek-statuesHoly Kau, those are tacky colors! XD Holy moly. Augustus of Prima Porta is so amazingly tacky in colour! xDDDD
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Post by Terra on Jan 6, 2012 10:05:59 GMT -5
Opposite sides on a die always add up to the same number (when the shape of the die makes it possible).
I'd known this about six-sided dice (for which they add up to seven), but I hadn't thought to see if it was true for my d20 and d8 and the others in my D&D dice set. It is, except for the d4, which is shaped like a pyramid and doesn't exactly have opposite sides the way the others do.
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