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  • Nothingburger - Wikipedia

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    yuuki_with2us 2024/04/22
    “a term used to describe a situation that receives a lot of attention, but which, upon closer examination, reveals to be of little to no real significance.”
  • Cryptic crossword - Wikipedia

    A 15x15 lattice-style grid is common for cryptic crosswords. A cryptic crossword is a crossword puzzle in which each clue is a word puzzle. Cryptic crosswords are particularly popular in the United Kingdom, where they originated,[1] as well as Ireland, the Netherlands, and in several Commonwealth nations, including Australia, Canada, India, Kenya, Malta, New Zealand, and South Africa. Compilers of

    Cryptic crossword - Wikipedia
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    yuuki_with2us 2024/02/21
    “a crossword puzzle in which each clue is a word puzzle. Cryptic crosswords are particularly popular in the United Kingdom, where they originated”
  • Songs Without Words - Wikipedia

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    yuuki_with2us 2024/02/18
    “Mendelssohn himself resisted attempts to interpret the songs too literally, and objected when his friend Marc-André Souchay sought to put words to them… "What the music I love expresses to me, is not thought too indefinite to put into words, but on the contrary, too definite"”
  • The Unfortunates - Wikipedia

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    yuuki_with2us 2023/12/20
    “an experimental "book in a box" published in 1969 by English author B. S. Johnson … The 27 sections are unbound, with a first and last chapter specified: the 25 sections between them, ranging from a single paragraph to 12 pages in length, are designed to be read in any order”
  • Ricky Ray Rector - Wikipedia

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    yuuki_with2us 2023/09/11
    "an American convicted murderer {who} shot himself in the head in a suicide attempt… effectively result{ing} in a lobotomy… Rector left the {pecan} pie on the side of the tray, telling the corrections officers who came to take him to the execution chamber that he was "saving it for later.""
  • Who's on First? - Wikipedia

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    yuuki_with2us 2023/08/13
    “"Who's on First?" is a comedy routine made famous by American comedy duo Abbott and Costello. The premise of the sketch is that Abbott is identifying the players on a baseball team for Costello. However, the players' names can simultaneously serve as the basis for questions… and responses”
  • Heidelberg Tun - Wikipedia

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    yuuki_with2us 2023/07/24
    “in Lyrisches Intermezzo by Heinrich Heine… used in… Dichterliebe by Robert Schumann for "Die alten, bösen Lieder." Ezra Pound …in Canto LXXX of The Pisan Cantos… The vast but empty vat, purposeless and deprived of its original use, is made to "rhyme" with the emptiness of war…”
  • Standard Deviations (exhibition) - Wikipedia

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    yuuki_with2us 2023/04/29
    “a Museum of Modern Art exhibition that was notable for showcasing the 23 digital typefaces that MoMA acquired in January 2011 for its Architecture and Design Collection… organized by Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator in the Department of Architecture and Kate Carmody, curatorial assistant.”
  • Basset clarinet - Wikipedia

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    yuuki_with2us 2023/02/22
    "Typically a basset clarinet has keywork going to a low (written) C or B … Mozart wrote his Clarinet Quintet in A major, K.581 and Clarinet Concerto in A Major, K.622 for this instrument; the concerto is partly based on an earlier fragment of a Concerto for Basset Horn in G, K.584b."
  • Meindert Hobbema - Wikipedia

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    yuuki_with2us 2022/11/21
    “Meindert Lubbertszoon Hobbema (bapt. 31 October 1638 – 7 December 1709) was a Dutch Golden Age painter of landscapes, specializing in views of woodland, although his most famous painting, The Avenue at Middelharnis (1689, National Gallery, London), shows a different type of scene.”
  • Point (typography) - Wikipedia

    The Truchet point, the first modern typographic point, was 1⁄144 of a French inch or 1⁄1728 of the royal foot. It was invented by the French clergyman Sébastien Truchet. During the metrication of France amid its revolution, a 1799 law declared the meter to be exactly 443.296 French lines long. This established a length to the royal foot of 9000⁄27706 m or about 325 mm. The Truchet point therefore

    Point (typography) - Wikipedia
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    yuuki_with2us 2022/10/09
    “The size of the point has varied throughout printing's history…digital printing has largely supplanted the letterpress printing and has established the DTP point (DeskTop Publishing point) as the de facto standard…defined as 1⁄72 of an international inch (1/72 × 25.4 mm ≈ 0.353 mm)”
  • Jasper Morrison - Wikipedia

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    yuuki_with2us 2022/09/08
    “Morrison has collaborated with the Japanese retail company MUJI …from houseware to housing…curated the Super Normal exhibition with Japanese Designer Naoto Fukasawa in 2006, which presented 200 ordinary or anonymously designed products that were devoid of gimmicks and branding”
  • Philip Sheridan - Wikipedia

    Philip Henry Sheridan (March 6, 1831[1][a] – August 5, 1888) was a career United States Army officer and a Union general in the American Civil War. His career was noted for his rapid rise to major general and his close association with General-in-chief Ulysses S. Grant, who transferred Sheridan from command of an infantry division in the Western Theater to lead the Cavalry Corps of the Army of the

    Philip Sheridan - Wikipedia
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    yuuki_with2us 2022/07/23
    "Comanche Chief Tosawi reputedly told Sheridan in 1869, "Tosawi, good Indian," to which Sheridan supposedly replied, "The only good Indians I ever saw were dead." Sheridan denied he had ever made the statement…popular history credits Sheridan with saying "The only good Indian is a dead Indian.""
  • Camel case - Wikipedia

    Camel case is named after the "hump" of its protruding capital letter, similar to the hump of common camels. Camel case (sometimes stylized autologically as camelCase or CamelCase, also known as camel caps or more formally as medial capitals) is the practice of writing phrases without spaces or punctuation and with capitalized words. The format indicates the first word starting with either case, t

    Camel case - Wikipedia
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    yuuki_with2us 2022/06/04
    "the practice of writing phrases without spaces or punctuation. It indicates the separation of words with a single capitalized letter, and the first word starting with either case {Microsoft} use the term camel case only for lower camel case, designating Pascal case for the upper camel case."
  • Matthew Butterick - Wikipedia

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    yuuki_with2us 2022/05/29
    "an American typographer, lawyer, writer, and computer programmer. …Expanding Typography for Lawyers, Butterick published Practical Typography as a "web-based book" in July 2013. …Equity, Concourse, Triplicate, Advocate, Heliotrope, "
  • Padrón pepper - Wikipedia

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    yuuki_with2us 2022/05/17
    “The taste is mild, but some exemplars can be quite hot. This property has given rise to the popular Galician aphorism "Os pementos de Padrón, uns pican e outros non" ("Padrón peppers, some are hot, some are not").”
  • False memory - Wikipedia

    In psychology, a false memory is a phenomenon where someone recalls something that did not actually happen or recalls it differently from the way it actually happened. Suggestibility, activation of associated information, the incorporation of misinformation, and source misattribution have been suggested to be several mechanisms underlying a variety of types of false memory. Early work[edit] The fa

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    yuuki_with2us 2022/01/24
    “In 2010, this shared false memory phenomenon was dubbed "the Mandela effect" by self-described "paranormal consultant" Fiona Broome, in reference to her false memory of the death of South African anti-Apartheid leader Nelson Mandela in prison in the 1980s”
  • Ariadne's thread (logic) - Wikipedia

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    yuuki_with2us 2021/12/21
    “solving a problem by multiple means—such as a physical maze, a logic puzzle, or an ethical dilemma—through an exhaustive application of logic to all available routes.”
  • List of typefaces included with macOS - Wikipedia

    This article needs to be updated. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. (September 2021) This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. This list of fonts contains every font shipped with Mac OS X 10.0 through macOS 10.14, including any that

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    yuuki_with2us 2021/12/06
    “This list of fonts contains every font shipped with Mac OS X 10.0 through macOS 10.14, including any that shipped with language-specific updates from Apple (primarily Korean and Chinese fonts).”
  • Perpetua (typeface) - Wikipedia

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    yuuki_with2us 2021/11/17
    “designed by…Eric Gill for the British Monotype…a crisp, contemporary design not following any specific historic model, with a structure influenced by Gill's experience of carving lettering for monuments and memorials.…particularly popular in fine book printing.”