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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s grand ambitions on eye-popping T-shirt

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s grand ambitions on eye-popping T-shirt

Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg is known for his passion, including for ancient Rome, and on Wednesday he wore a shirt that played on his own ambitions as his company launched what he described as the best glasses in the world. At Meta’s annual Connect event in Menlo Park, Calif., Zuckerberg wore a custom T-shirt with the Latin phrase “aut … Read more

Opinion | Purple reign: how colour owes its name to sea snails, and why it became associated with grandeur

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Opinion | Purple reign: how colour owes its name to sea snails, and why it became associated with grandeur

The word “purple”, spelled purpel in Middle English, from purpul in Old English, was first recorded in Northumbrian, in the Lindisfarne Gospels. This involved a dissimilation (changing one of two identical sounds to a different, similar one) of purpure, borrowed from the Latin purpura in the ninth century, coming from the Greek porphyra, which most … Read more