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sayulita magenta

Sayulita, Mexico

Sayulita, Mexico

never before i knew the origin of the word magenta:

ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: named after Magenta in northern Italy, site of a battle (1859) fought shortly before the dye (of bloodlike color) was discovered.

06 Feb This entry was written by Salted Herring, posted on February 6, 2010 at 09:19, filed under color, mexico, sayulita, sojourns and tagged , , , . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed. View EXIF Data