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Word of the Day for Thursday, February 10, 2011daedal \DEE-duhl\, adjective: 1. Complex or ingenious in form or function; intricate. Most Web-site designers realize that large image maps and daedal layouts are to be avoided, and the leading World Wide Web designers have reacted to users' objections to highly graphical, slow sites by using uncluttered, easy-to-use layouts. He gathered toward the end of his life a very extensive collection of illustrated books and illuminated manuscripts, and took heightened pleasure in their daedal patterns as his own strength declined. I sang of the dancing stars, Daedal comes from Latin daedalus, "cunningly wrought," from Greek daidalos, "skillful, cunningly created." | |||||||||
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  What is the name of the extinct plant that may have inspired the symbol for heart-shaped Valentines?The shape of the heart is iconic of love, but it barely resembles the central, never-ceasing organ in our chests that the Greeks called the seat of the emotions. Why is that? Ancient coins from Cyrene, a city-state where Libya is now, show an impression of a silphium seed, and it's a shape that you know... | |||||||||
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