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Re: How You Started...
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Mitch Friedfeld <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 20 May 2000 23:41:58 -0400
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Chris Bonds wrote:

>...  The equation V (for victory) = ...___ came out after the War and
>was symbolic of the allied victory.  Thus the symphony took on symbolic
>significance because the last movement represents a sort of triumph over
>the first.  And V of course is Roman numeral for 5.  Quite a coincidence.

Was it a coincidence? I'm under the impression that Samuel Morse
deliberately made dot-dot-dot-dash the symbol for V precisely because
it is the Roman numeral for 5.  Is this one of those urban legends?

Mitch Friedfeld

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