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Old 05-16-2017, 04:53 PM   #13
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I don't think there's a Dutch newspaper that isn't tabloid format...
Yeah, I've been to Europe a time or two, but I didn't pay any attention to their newspapers, that I remember. But when you see a person reading a newspaper on TV and such in the U.K., it is inevitably a tabloid. One thing (of many, I'm sure) where the Europeans could teach the Americans something.

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I wonder how they even made that 6 foot wide book originally!
Great question. I suppose that it was like the "illuminated" Bibles. I have almost no knowledge of them, but it seems that each scribe/artist/whoever would have been assigned several pages to illuminate, and it might not take very long, relatively speaking, to finish the book.

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And couldn't they have anticipated that some day people would want to scan that book to preserver it for eternity...
Yes, I think that Nostradamus had something to say about that in one of his prophecies. ha

Actually, I think developments like digitization were beyond even the best futurists of that time from being able to imagine. It wasn't until the early 1800's that the camera even was invented!
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