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10 Interesting Things I Found on the Internet #148

Floaty #Japanese environmental #ambient #music, the #etymology of #bread, ancient manuscripts of #alchemy, poisonous snakes in an infographic, Strasbourg, #fantasy #art and much more. #InterestingThings #ContentCatnip Osaki Seiichi – The Tale Of A Long Forgotten Sunken City ‘Give us this day our daily bread’ has a whole new meaning now The words “lord” and “lady”Continue reading “10 Interesting Things I Found on the Internet #148”

Ancient Word of the Day: Khemeia

Khemeia: The extraction of juices for medicine, from Ancient Greek Related to the word Khumos meaning plant juice. This word khemeia travelled from Greece to the Medieval Arabic world where it came to mean al-khemeia or alchemy. The goal of alchemists was to bring a mystical fifth element known as the ‘quintessence’ from the divineContinue reading “Ancient Word of the Day: Khemeia”