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🗓️ 3 January 2024
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The story of why blueprints were blue is more involved than you think. It involves a chemical process and the Prussian Army. Yeah you heard me right.
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0:00.0 | Tune into the new podcast, Stories from the Village of Nothing Much, like Easy Listening, but for fiction. |
0:08.0 | If you've overdosed on bad news, we invite you into a world where the glimmers of goodness in everyday life are all around you. |
0:16.0 | I'm Catherine Nikolai and I'm an architect of Cozy. |
0:20.0 | Come spend some time where everyone is welcome and the default is kindness. |
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0:34.0 | Hey and welcome to the Short Stuff, I'm Josh, and there's Chuck and Jerry's here too. Dave's here in Spirit. |
0:44.4 | When you put us all together, you can call us the Blue Main Group. |
0:49.9 | It's best I could come up with on Short knows, Chuck. |
0:52.1 | Yeah, this is the, I guess the conclusion of our two-part series on colors, |
0:58.0 | although we have done colors in the past. |
1:00.0 | I know we did indigo. |
1:01.0 | And I think we did a short stuff on paint blue right? Yes and some other |
1:08.7 | stuff it's come up and some other things but I think colors is going to be a never-ending sweet. There's a |
1:13.6 | lot of colors to cover. That's right. And this is a story of not only a color |
1:17.7 | but a process and we're talking about the color Prussian blue and that is the color of a blueprint like in the old days when |
1:27.2 | blue prints were really blue like blueprints for a house or a building or a bridge |
1:32.0 | right or a |
1:33.3 | tank or whatever you're gonna design. |
1:36.3 | That blue is called Prussian blue. |
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