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When Agnodice became a handbag…

April 30, 2017April 17, 2017 fluff35

I am always interested in how the past is used in advertising. Whether that’s in a trade name (when I grew up, ‘Vim’ was used for scrubbing all sorts of surfaces and it was fun when I started to study Latin and found out it meant ‘Force’) or in an image (Greek columns as signifying… Continue reading When Agnodice became a handbag…

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