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From: harshawardhan_bosham nimkhedkar <>
Subject: Re: [ABOUT WORDS] Matches
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2004 22:24:09 +0530
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Somebody had forwarded an article by Mark Tully* from this site --

http://www.nwta.com/couriers/6-96/matches.html

I picked up those words from it.

* Mark Tully -- the BBC's former radio-TV correspondent in India. He retired
some years ago, but has stayed on India. He has written several books on
India. He was knighted a couple of years ago. Search the Amazon site for a
list of his books.

--- Harshawardhan
April 5 2004



Where did you find the data on matches, Harmoni?

The precursor of the striking match in the US was a "Lucifer" I believe?
I think there was one called "Luminus" too.

Fred

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