Regular Posts Tagged ‘french’
4th Nov 2009Posted in: Object
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“Jeans” taken from the French phrase bleu de Gênes, which means the blue of Genoa. Using indigo dye, jeans are dyed to a blue color. About 20 million tons of dye are produced annually, but only a few grams of the dye are required for each pair of pants. I got few questions for all of you: 1. How many pairs [...]
Manneken Pis is a dutch word for Little Peeing Man, and commonly known in French as Petit Julien. It is a sculpture depicting a small boy urinating into a fountain’s basin. By: tanchi, 2009

