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[DL] Just because it's interesting...



Apparently, the emblem of the Pinkerton Detective Agency (back around the
Deadlands time or just after) was an eye, and they became known collectively
as "the eye". This is where the term (still in use today) "private eye"
comes from.

Brian "Never knew that" Leybourne.

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Brian Leybourne
NT Systems Administrator
Wang; Air New Zealand
brian.leybourne@airnz.co.nz

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