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  1. Mark Kurlansky _ Paper: Paging Through History

    Pegasus claims that making red-algae paper uses less energy than making paper from wood pulp because there is no need to remove lignin. They also say that ethanol is a by-product of the algae papermaking process. Their paper tastes like-paper. IN
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    Through these documents, many Japanese can trace their family as far back as 700. By
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  3. Mark Kurlansky _ Paper: Paging Through History

    It was one thing to talk of using technology to topple the authority of the aristocracy and the Church, but who or what would replace them? Diderot and the French revolutionaries had assumed it would be "the people." But as the nineteenth-century French historian Jules Michelet once wryly observed, "The people, in its highest ideal, is difficult to find in the people." As
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  4. Mark Kurlansky _ Paper: Paging Through History

    Europe needed printing because it was bursting with creativity. New ideas in the arts and sciences, as well as in social justice and religion, desperately needed to be expressed and disseminated. The Chinese and Muslim eras of innovation were mostly behind them.
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    In 1928, Celulosa Cubana, S.A., founded by sugar tycoon Manuel Rionda, began making bagasse paper in Tuinucu, Cuba.
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  6. Mark Kurlansky _ Paper: Paging Through History

    Europeans started wearing linen underwear instead of wool. There is no record indicating that this made the Europeans less irritable, but it did make a lot more rags available.
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  7. Mark Kurlansky _ Paper: Paging Through History

    Writing beautifully-calligraphy-was China's first graphic art form. Although elsewhere in the world people drew first and learned to write later, in China, the reverse was true. First you learned to write beautifully, and then you painted. After mastering those twin skills, you could move on to writing poetry, but many chose to remain just calligraphers, a highly appreciated art form in China. Another"
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  8. Mark Kurlansky _ Paper: Paging Through History

    And another small point, or two actually; Aldus was the first to use the modern semicolon.
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