Yep... and how do u say « amber » in greek ? Elektron 
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And sure enough, around 1600 Hanson Mourning-Woode (1568-1613) at St. Swithin’s rubbed a healthy Orpington chicken against his linen trousers causing it to stick there the entire time he was shopping at the local market. He was politely asked not to return.
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You mean *BC*.
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No. He means BCE (before common era).
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(1/2) "Among the many phenomena studied by the Greeks, there were two very strange ones. One was that if you rubbed a piece of amber you could lift up little pieces of papyrus..."
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(2/2) "The other was there was a strange rock from the island of magnesia which held on to paper clips." - Richard Feynman at Caltech on September 27, 1962pic.twitter.com/rXVg7rpE03
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What a moving story.
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That's what books are saying.
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In fact, it is still a mystery, in many of its aspects.
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Thanks! Cc
@thalesians
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