tidbits cross time

In Rennaissance Florence, a bride from a rich family was paraded down the streets to her new home, riding a white horse, showing all her finery -- feasible because as a not-yet-married woman, she did not have to wear the all enveloping mantle.

In colonial America, when searching for good farmland, one criterion was that land were the rainbows ended was good.

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