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humour, or non-characteristic words.  for 'lorem ipsum' will uncover many web
                                                       sites still in their infancy. Various versions
                  Contrary to Popular Belief           have evolved over the years, sometimes        It is a long
                     Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text   by accident, sometimes on purpose
                  of the printing and typesetting industry.   (injected humour and the like).    established fact
                  Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's     Lorem Ipsum is not simply random
                  standard dummy text ever since the   text. It has roots in a piece of classical   that a reader will
                  1500s, when an unknown printer took   Latin literature from 45 BC, making it   be distracted by the
                  a galley of type and scrambled it to   over 2000 years old. Richard McClintock,
                  make a type specimen book. It has    a Latin professor at Hampden-Sydney    readable content of
                  survived not only five centuries, but   College in Latin words, consectetur,
                  remaining essentially unchanged. It was   from a Lorem Ipsum passage, and going   a page when looking
                  popularised in the 1960s with the release   through the cites of the word in classical
                  of Letraset sheets containing Lorem   literature, discovered the undoubtable     at its layout.
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                  desktop publishing software like Aldus   Evil) by Cicero, written in 45 BC. This book
                  PageMaker including versions of Lorem   is a treatise on the theory of ethics, very
                  Ipsum.                               popular during the Renaissance. The first   in their exact original form, accompanied
                     The point of using Lorem Ipsum    line of Lorem Ipsum, "Lorem ipsum dolor   by English versions from the 1914
                  is that it has a more-or-less normal   sit amet..", comes from a line in section   translation by H. Rackham.
                  distribution of letters, as opposed to   1.10.32.                            There are many variations of
                  using 'Content here, content here',     The standard chunk of Lorem Ipsum   passages of Lorem Ipsum available, but
                  making it look like readable English.   used since the 1500s is reproduced below   the majority have suffered alteration
                  Many desktop publishing packages and   for those interested. Sections 1.10.32 and   in some form, by injected humour, or
                  web page editors now use Lorem Ipsum   1.10.33 from "de Finibus Bonorum et   randomised words which don't look even
                  as their default model text, and a search   Malorum" by Cicero are also reproduced   slightly believable. n


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