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Old 12-09-2009, 05:33 AM   #60
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Originally Posted by Elfwreck View Post
It [justification] probably started being used for newspapers
Justification has been used long before Newspapers, e.g.

King James Bible (1611 AD)
http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti...TextID=kjbible

And before printing (1230 AD)
http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/pages...cfm?so_id=3280

In Arabic (1108 AD):
http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/pages...fm?so_id=10504

And even Cuniform! (ca. 2000 BC)
http://cdli.ucla.edu/search/result.p...xt=eq&size=100
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