Myths about the father of chemistry’s alphabet still persist: comments

quotejoseph walker

June 11, 2009, 16:18

Well the planet do have, or did have, a few men of genius,but the one element which outdoes alll the other elements ,is the garbage the politicans talk in the west.

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