Archive for October, 2006
Black Orchid
Thursday, October 5th, 2006ascii
Wednesday, October 4th, 2006ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange), generally pronounced [ˈæski], is a character encoding based on the English alphabet. ASCII codes represent text in computers, communications equipment, and other devices that work with text. Most modern character encodings have a historical basis in ASCII… @
AIX LA CHAPELLE
Wednesday, October 4th, 2006
The Romans named the hot sulphur springs of Aachen Aquis-Granum. For the origin of the Granus several theories were developed, but it is now widely accepted that it derives from a local Celtic god of healing water, not elsewhere attested. Since Roman times, the hot springs have been channeled into baths (which are still in use). In French-speaking areas of the former Empire, the word aquas was turned into aix, hence Aix-la-Chapelle… @

