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The Color Purple
What's fascinating about Perkin's discovery is that it largely happened by accident. He wasn't really trying to make the color
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Ten-Thousand Things
“I fear not the man who has practiced ten-thousand kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick ten-thousand times.” ~ Bruce Le