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Reference-chasing through Google Books
Jan. 11th, 2010 07:54 pmAscribed to an Assyrian tablet from ~2800 BC: "Our Earth is degenerate in these later days; there are signs that the world is speedily coming to an end; bribery and corruption are common; children no longer obey their parents; every man wants to write a book and the end of the world is evidently approaching."( Read more... )
On a different note, no one seems to know when/where the "French braid" hairstyle originated. (The French names for the hairstyle translate as "African braid" and "Indian braid".) There's an 1871 mention of it as a new hairstyle, but w/o a corresponding illustration or set of instructions, there's no way to know if it meant the same thing then as it does now. However, I was chuffed to find a set of instructions from 1882 for the style now called the "fishtail braid" and then called the "Grecian braid".
On a different note, no one seems to know when/where the "French braid" hairstyle originated. (The French names for the hairstyle translate as "African braid" and "Indian braid".) There's an 1871 mention of it as a new hairstyle, but w/o a corresponding illustration or set of instructions, there's no way to know if it meant the same thing then as it does now. However, I was chuffed to find a set of instructions from 1882 for the style now called the "fishtail braid" and then called the "Grecian braid".