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My thinking is that it was because mirrors were very expensive and the idea was to make sure that people were careful with them. At least that is my thinking.It may also be related to the idea that by...
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Even if that *is* speculation, it's interesting. There've been a a few threads here expanding on "doppelgangers" (which I believe is in the Big List), and Left & Right - esp. in terms of the...
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No worries about the other discussion titles mate. If I get a chance I'll go looking for them."The price of freedom is not vigilance, but responsibility"
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It has more to do with the idea of a person's image as possessing a bit of their souls, than the cost/rarity of glass. The seven years come the Roman idea that everything happens in seven-year cycles;...
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Thanks milady. That explanation makes a lot of sense. I think that I had just assumed that the 7 year period was based on biblical type references which seem to use 7 as a "large number". Its good to...
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>>biblical references which use 7 as a "large number". see, now i'm flashing back to watership down. hrair. anything over 4 was hrair.i always thought that was interesting.
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richard adams never talked about it but, what i just said up there leads to a joke...ahem....you, and your HRAIR brained ideas!!@!it's funny 'cause it only ever happened in our minds!
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Maybe it comes from the Romans as well, but the law also deals with seven year increments for different purposes. Under the common law, seven, fourteen and twenty-one years each had significance....
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> twenty-one, obviously, was the age of majorityIs that "obvious"? It's not the age of majority NOW (most places), and, except for a few decades in the middle (70s? 80s?), it wasn't the age of...
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Its possible though that the age of majority back then meant something a bit different to what it means now. Perhaps it was the youngest age at which you could be considered a full citizen, or...
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