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65 relations: Abecedarius, Acronym, Alice Liddell, Ancient Greek, Ashrei, Autocar (magazine), Backronym, Bible code, Book of Lamentations, Constrained writing, Cyclops, Donald Trump, Edgar Allan Poe, Gordon Macdonald, 1st Baron Macdonald of Gwaenysgor, Gustavus Conyngham, Hebrew alphabet, Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, IBM, Ichthys, Initial, James May, Jesus, King of the Jews, Jewish prayer, Jonathan I. Schwartz, Koine Greek, Latin, Lewis Carroll, Mesostic, Mnemonic, New Testament, Null cipher, O Antiphons, Odysseus, Oracle Corporation, Oxford English Dictionary, Paragraph, Poetry, President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities, Prinsjesdag, Proverbs 31, Psalm 111, Psalm 112, Psalm 119, Psalm 145, Psalm 25, Psalm 34, Psalm 37, Psalms, Renaissance, Rikei, ..., Rudolf von Ems, Speech from the throne, Steganography, Stroud, Sun Microsystems, Tanakh, The Vane Sisters, Through the Looking-Glass, Top Gear (2002 TV series), University of California, Berkeley, Vladimir Nabokov, Wilhelmus, William the Silent, Word square, Zork. Expand index (15 more) »
Abecedarius
An abecedarius (also abecedary and abecedarian) is a special type of acrostic in which the first letter of every word, strophe or verse follows the order of the letters in the alphabet.
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Acronym
An acronym is a word or name formed as an abbreviation from the initial components in a phrase or a word, usually individual letters (as in NATO or laser) and sometimes syllables (as in Benelux).
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Alice Liddell
Alice Pleasance Hargreaves (née Liddell; 4 May 1852 – 16 November 1934) was, in her childhood, an acquaintance and photography subject of Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson).
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Ancient Greek
The Ancient Greek language includes the forms of Greek used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around the 9th century BC to the 6th century AD.
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Ashrei
The Ashrei (Hebrew: אַשְׁרֵי יוֹשְׁבֵי בֵיתֶךָ, עוֹד יְהַלְלוּךָ סֶּלָה, Ashrei yoshvei veitecha, od y’hallelucha, selah!; English: Happy are they who dwell in Your house; they will praise You, always!) is a prayer that is recited at least three times daily in Jewish prayers, twice during Shacharit (morning service) and once during Mincha (afternoon service).
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Autocar (magazine)
Autocar is a weekly British automobile magazine published by Haymarket Motoring Publications Ltd.
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Backronym
A backronym, or bacronym, is a constructed phrase that purports to be the source of a word that is an acronym.
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Bible code
The Bible code (הצופן התנ"כי, hatzofen hatanachi), also known as the Torah code, is a purported set of secret messages encoded within the Hebrew text of the Torah.
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Book of Lamentations
The Book of Lamentations (אֵיכָה, ‘Êykhôh, from its incipit meaning "how") is a collection of poetic laments for the destruction of Jerusalem.
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Constrained writing
Constrained writing is a literary technique in which the writer is bound by some condition that forbids certain things or imposes a pattern.
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Cyclops
A cyclops (Κύκλωψ, Kyklōps; plural cyclopes; Κύκλωπες, Kyklōpes), in Greek mythology and later Roman mythology, is a member of a primordial race of giants, each with a single eye in the center of his forehead.
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Donald Trump
Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is the 45th and current President of the United States, in office since January 20, 2017.
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Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, editor, and literary critic.
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Gordon Macdonald, 1st Baron Macdonald of Gwaenysgor
Gordon Macdonald, 1st Baron Macdonald of Gwaenysgor (27 May 1888 – 20 January 1966) was a British Labour Party politician and Newfoundland's final British governor as well as the last chairman of the Commission of Government serving from 1946 until the colony joined Confederation in 1949 and became a province of Canada.
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Gustavus Conyngham
Gustavus Conyngham (about 1747 – 27 November 1819) was an Irish-born American merchant sea captain, an officer in the Continental Navy and a privateer.
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Hebrew alphabet
The Hebrew alphabet (אָלֶף־בֵּית עִבְרִי), known variously by scholars as the Jewish script, square script and block script, is an abjad script used in the writing of the Hebrew language, also adapted as an alphabet script in the writing of other Jewish languages, most notably in Yiddish (lit. "Jewish" for Judeo-German), Djudío (lit. "Jewish" for Judeo-Spanish), and Judeo-Arabic.
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Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (from Greek hýpnos, 'sleep', érōs, 'love', and máchē, 'fight'), called in English Poliphilo's Strife of Love in a Dream or The Dream of Poliphilus, is a romance said to be by Francesco Colonna.
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IBM
The International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States, with operations in over 170 countries.
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Ichthys
The ichthys or ichthus, from the Greek ikhthýs (ἰχθύς 1st cent. AD Koine Greek, "fish") is a symbol consisting of two intersecting arcs, the ends of the right side extending beyond the meeting point so as to resemble the profile of a fish.
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Initial
In a written or published work, an initial or drop cap is a letter at the beginning of a word, a chapter, or a paragraph that is larger than the rest of the text.
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James May
James Daniel May (born 16 January 1963) is an English television presenter and journalist.
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Jesus, King of the Jews
In the New Testament, Jesus is referred to as the King of the Jews (or of the Judeans), both at the beginning of his life and at the end.
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Jewish prayer
Jewish prayer (תְּפִלָּה, tefillah; plural תְּפִלּוֹת, tefillot; Yiddish תּפֿלה tfile, plural תּפֿלות tfilles; Yinglish: davening from Yiddish דאַוון daven ‘pray’) are the prayer recitations and Jewish meditation traditions that form part of the observance of Rabbinic Judaism.
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Jonathan I. Schwartz
Jonathan Ian Schwartz (born October 20, 1965) is an American businessman.
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Koine Greek
Koine Greek,.
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Latin
Latin (Latin: lingua latīna) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.
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Lewis Carroll
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English writer, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon, and photographer.
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Mesostic
A mesostic is a poem or other text arranged so that a vertical phrase intersects lines of horizontal text.
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Mnemonic
A mnemonic (the first "m" is silent) device, or memory device, is any learning technique that aids information retention or retrieval (remembering) in the human memory.
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New Testament
The New Testament (Ἡ Καινὴ Διαθήκη, trans. Hē Kainḕ Diathḗkē; Novum Testamentum) is the second part of the Christian biblical canon, the first part being the Old Testament, based on the Hebrew Bible.
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Null cipher
A null cipher, also known as concealment cipher, is an ancient form of encryption where the plaintext is mixed with a large amount of non-cipher material.
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O Antiphons
The Annunciation The O Antiphons, also known as The great Os are Magnificat antiphons used at Vespers of the last seven days of Advent in Western Christian traditions.
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Odysseus
Odysseus (Ὀδυσσεύς, Ὀδυσεύς, Ὀdysseús), also known by the Latin variant Ulysses (Ulixēs), is a legendary Greek king of Ithaca and the hero of Homer's epic poem the Odyssey.
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Oracle Corporation
Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation, headquartered in Redwood Shores, California.
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Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the main historical dictionary of the English language, published by the Oxford University Press.
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Paragraph
A paragraph (from the Ancient Greek παράγραφος paragraphos, "to write beside" or "written beside") is a self-contained unit of a discourse in writing dealing with a particular point or idea.
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Poetry
Poetry (the term derives from a variant of the Greek term, poiesis, "making") is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of language—such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre—to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, the prosaic ostensible meaning.
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President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities
The President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities (PCAH) was an advisory committee to the White House on cultural issues.
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Prinsjesdag
Prinsjesdag (Little Princes' Day) is the day on which the reigning monarch of the Netherlands addresses a joint session of the Dutch Senate and House of Representatives to give the speech from the throne (Troonrede); setting out the main features of government policy for the coming parliamentary session.
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Proverbs 31
Chapter 31 of the Book of '''Proverbs''' in the Hebrew Bible is presented as advice which Lemuel's mother gave to him, about how a virtuous king should reign, and also detailing the attributes of a virtuous wife or ideal woman.
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Psalm 111
Psalm 111 is the 111th psalm from the Book of Psalms.
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Psalm 112
Psalm 112 is the 112th psalm from the Book of Psalms.
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Psalm 119
Psalm 119 (Greek numbering: Psalm 118) is the longest psalm as well as the longest chapter in the Bible.
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Psalm 145
Psalm 145 is the 145th chapter from the Book of Psalms.
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Psalm 25
Psalm 25 (Hebrew numbering; Psalm 24 in Greek numbering) of the Book of Psalms, one of the psalms of David, has the form of an acrostic Hebrew poem.
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Psalm 34
Psalm 34 is the 34th psalm of the Book of Psalms, or Psalm 33 according to the Greek numbering system.
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Psalm 37
Psalm 37 is the 37th psalm of the Book of Psalms.
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Psalms
The Book of Psalms (תְּהִלִּים or, Tehillim, "praises"), commonly referred to simply as Psalms or "the Psalms", is the first book of the Ketuvim ("Writings"), the third section of the Hebrew Bible, and a book of the Christian Old Testament.
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Renaissance
The Renaissance is a period in European history, covering the span between the 14th and 17th centuries.
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Rikei
was the eldest daughter of Katsunuma Nobutomo (勝沼 信友), a samurai of the Sengoku period.
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Rudolf von Ems
Rudolf von Ems (c. 1200 – 1254), also called in English Rudolf of Ems, was a medieval Austrian epic poet.
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Speech from the throne
A speech from the throne (or throne speech) is an event in certain monarchies in which the reigning sovereign, or a representative thereof, reads a prepared speech to members of the nation's legislature when a session is opened, outlining the government's agenda and focus for the forthcoming session; or in some cases, closed.
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Steganography
Steganography is the practice of concealing a file, message, image, or video within another file, message, image, or video.
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Stroud
Stroud is a market town and civil parish in the centre of Gloucestershire, England.
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Sun Microsystems
Sun Microsystems, Inc. was an American company that sold computers, computer components, software, and information technology services and created the Java programming language, the Solaris operating system, ZFS, the Network File System (NFS), and SPARC.
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Tanakh
The Tanakh (or; also Tenakh, Tenak, Tanach), also called the Mikra or Hebrew Bible, is the canonical collection of Jewish texts, which is also a textual source for the Christian Old Testament.
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The Vane Sisters
"The Vane Sisters" is a short story by Vladimir Nabokov, written in March 1951.
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Through the Looking-Glass
Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871) is a novel by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865).
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Top Gear (2002 TV series)
Top Gear is a British motoring magazine, factual television series, conceived by Jeremy Clarkson and Andy Wilman, launched on 20 October 2002, and broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC Two.
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University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public research university in Berkeley, California.
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Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Влади́мир Влади́мирович Набо́ков, also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin; 2 July 1977) was a Russian-American novelist, poet, translator and entomologist.
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Wilhelmus
"Wilhelmus van Nassouwe", usually known just as the "Wilhelmus" (Het Wilhelmus;; English translation: "The William"), is the national anthem of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
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William the Silent
William I, Prince of Orange (24 April 1533 – 10 July 1584), also widely known as William the Silent or William the Taciturn (translated from Willem de Zwijger), or more commonly known as William of Orange (Willem van Oranje), was the main leader of the Dutch revolt against the Spanish Habsburgs that set off the Eighty Years' War (1568–1648) and resulted in the formal independence of the United Provinces in 1581.
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Word square
A word square is a special type of acrostic.
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Zork
Zork is one of the earliest interactive fiction computer games, with roots drawn from the original genre game Colossal Cave Adventure.
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References
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