on 28/9/06 5:47 AM, grant b, sun reporter wrote:
> 3. The swastika has a history in Europe, showing
> up in northern European church windows as a
> figure commonly called a "fylfot," because it
> seemed to be used as a design element to "fill"
> the "foot" of stained glass windows.
This one is a very dodgy one, as if you look at actual records of stained
glass windows, there seem to be none using fylfots.
It may actually be a case of a definition being passed down but never
checked.
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Door - a thing that a cat is on the wrong side of.
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