Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/11/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Good lord, you must be retired, man! ;-) Didn't we all come from the same little blob in the primordial muck? As for Gibbon, forget that, but there is a new compilation of Churchill's speeches just out, published by his grandson, that looks interesting. ==================== Marc James Small pontificated: "Blame Carl Linnaeus for this one: he was the original sorter of lifeforms and was the fellow who developed the use of a generic name coupled with a species name, as in Lacerta Lacerta or Salamandra Salamandra or Homo Sapiens and the like. Linnaeus dumped all of the cold-blooded land animals into a single class and divided the warm-blooded land critters into two classes ... " etcetera, etcetera, etcetera ... - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html