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Old 05-04-2008, 05:00 PM
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Originally Posted by paul m View Post
Last of the great romantics. "Rainbow" always sounds a bit dull to me, arc en ciel sounds more romantic (just a curve in the sky, I know). Are there any more interesting names?
The Dutch keep it nice and simple as well, 'regenboog' (rain bow).
But I thought I would mention what people thought of rainbows before we learnt the physics behind them. The main rainbow was thought to be a bridge between Heaven and earth. In the Middle Ages people thought that the reversed colour rainbow (as Paul says the extra arcs) was the work of the devil as it wasn't as light as the main rainbow and on top of that it wasn't even properly copied: the colours are in the wrong order.
The devil could even go a step further in acting unsuitable than copying a 'real' rainbow incorrectly; by creating a rainbow that is half an upside down arc he could make a slide into Hell!

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