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A strong presence of red, for instance, indicates a willful personality; it may signify selfishness, physical strength, or powers of leadership. Green is the color of nature and healing, but may reveal a deceitful character. Orange is an indicator of physical health. A strong yellow presence reveals intellectual abilities. Blue refers to a person’s religious or spiritual state: the deeper the blue, the more enlightened the individual. Black is the color of death, malice or melancholy personality.

The Bible is perhaps one of the most popular books ever to have been published. Reports suggest that more homes own a copy of the Christian text than The Da Vinci Code. Many people live their lives by its contents, but how does the text itself stand up to scrutiny?

Although the legend of Robin Hood has persisted for centuries, no one knows if he ever really existed. The earliest visual representation of him, is in a “biography” entitled A Lyttell Geste of Robyn Hode, probably written about 1400…To this day, the figure of Robin Hood remains elusive. Whether he actually existed as a real person or was a fictional representation of one or more real-life outlaws, his origins will continue to entertain and intrigue young and old alike.

Words.

At first 29 Navajo recruits worked out the code that, by the end of the war, some 420 of their fellow tribesmen would use. The code’s vocabulary – 411 terms – was based on association: dive-bomber became chickenhawk; fighter-plane, humming-bird; battleship, whale; submarine, iron fish. The Navajos used imagination and humor too. They called ammunition “all sorts of shells,” and antitank missiles “tortoise shooters”; Australia was “rolled hat.” and China, “braided hair”.

In 1807 a four-volume Family Shakespeare was published in Bath, England. Family was part of the title because, as its anonymous editor explained, “those words and expressions are omitted that cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family.” In Macbeth, for example, “Out, damn’d spot!” ad become “Out, crimson spot!” and in Romeo and Juliet, the heroine speech declaring her love for her suitor was reduced to less than half its original length.