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A rebus is a puzzle device which combines the use of illustrated pictures with individual letters to depict words and/or phrases. [1]

82 relations: A Curious Hieroglyphic Bible, Art James, Bezant, Bishop of Exeter, Bow and arrow, Burgo's Catch Phrase, Canting arms, Catchphrase (U.S. game show), Catchphrase (UK game show), Code, Concentration (game show), Conger, Congleton, Crashbox, Crown cork, Dadagiri Unlimited, Deer, Dream, Edo period, Emoji, Falstaff Brewing Corporation, Frederick the Great, Gramogram, Haffenreffer Brewery, HBO, Hector Berlioz, Heraldry, Hobby, Horus, Hugh Oldham, Ignatius of Loyola, Japanese calendar, Japanese rebus monogram, Jean-Pierre Dantan, John Burgess (host), Kabuki, Kassel, Kidstreet, Kunisada, Kuwait, Language of thought hypothesis, Lewis Carroll, Linguistics, Lion Brewery, Inc., Logo, Lone Star Brewing Company, Lucky Lager, Mickey's, Middle Ages, Mirror, ..., Monogram, Narragansett Brewing Company, National Bohemian, Olympia Brewing Company, P. Ballantine and Sons Brewing Company, Pearl Brewing Company, Phonogram (linguistics), Pictogram, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, Ra, Rainier Brewing Company, Ramesses II, Richard Weston (treasurer), Salmon, Salmon (surname), Sanssouci, Sigmund Freud, Socle (architecture), Sutton Place, Surrey, Tenugui, The Interpretation of Dreams, Ukiyo-e, Verbal arithmetic, Victor Hugo, Visual pun, Voltaire, Waffle (game show), Walter Hart, Word play, Yagō, Yamasa, Zee Bangla. Expand index (32 more) »

A Curious Hieroglyphic Bible

A Curious Hieroglyphic Bible is an early American children's book.

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Art James

Art James (born Arthur Simeonovich Efimchick; October 15, 1929 – March 28, 2004) was an American game-show host, best known for shows such as The Who, What, or Where Game, It's Academic.

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Bezant

In the Middle Ages, the term bezant (Old French besant, from Latin bizantius aureus) was used in western Europe to describe several gold coins of the east, all derived ultimately from the Roman ''solidus''.

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Bishop of Exeter

The Bishop of Exeter is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Exeter in the Province of Canterbury.

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Bow and arrow

The bow and arrow is a ranged weapon system consisting of an elastic launching device (bow) and long-shafted projectiles (arrows).

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Burgo's Catch Phrase

Burgo's Catch Phrase was an Australian game show that ran between 1997 and 2003, produced by Southern Star Group (and later by the joint-venture Endemol Southern Star) for the Nine Network.

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Canting arms

Canting arms are heraldic bearings that represent the bearer's name (or, less often, some attribute or function) in a visual pun or rebus.

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Catchphrase (U.S. game show)

Catch Phrase is an American game show which ran from September 16, 1985 through January 10, 1986 in syndication.

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Catchphrase (UK game show)

Catchphrase is a British game show based on the short-lived U.S. game show of the same name.

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Code

In communications and information processing, code is a system of rules to convert information—such as a letter, word, sound, image, or gesture—into another form or representation, sometimes shortened or secret, for communication through a communication channel or storage in a storage medium.

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Concentration (game show)

Concentration is an American television game show based on the children's memory game of the same name.

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Conger

Conger is a genus of marine congrid eels.

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Congleton

Congleton is a town and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England.

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Crashbox

Crashbox is a Canadian-American educational children's television game show that airs on the HBO Family digital cable television channel in the United States and Asia and ran from 1999 to 2000.

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Crown cork

The crown cork (also known as a crown seal, crown cap or just a cap), the first form of bottle cap, was invented by William Painter in 1892 in Baltimore.

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Dadagiri Unlimited

Dadagiri Unlimited is a Bengali language quiz show telecaste by the Indian TV channel Zee Bangla.

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Deer

Deer (singular and plural) are the ruminant mammals forming the family Cervidae.

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Dream

A dream is a succession of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that usually occur involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep.

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Edo period

The or is the period between 1603 and 1868 in the history of Japan, when Japanese society was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional daimyō.

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Emoji

are ideograms and smileys used in electronic messages and web pages.

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Falstaff Brewing Corporation

The Falstaff Brewing Corporation was a major American brewery located in St. Louis, Missouri.

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Frederick the Great

Frederick II (Friedrich; 24 January 171217 August 1786) was King of Prussia from 1740 until 1786, the longest reign of any Hohenzollern king.

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Gramogram

A Gramogram or Grammagram or Letteral Word is a letter or group of letters which can be pronounced to form one or more words, as in "CU" for "See you".

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Haffenreffer Brewery

The Haffenreffer Brewery, established in 1870, was a former brewer in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.

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HBO

Home Box Office (HBO) is an American premium cable and satellite television network of Home Box Office, Inc..

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Hector Berlioz

Louis-Hector Berlioz; 11 December 1803 – 8 March 1869) was a French Romantic composer, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique, Harold en Italie, Roméo et Juliette, Grande messe des morts (Requiem), L'Enfance du Christ, Benvenuto Cellini, La Damnation de Faust, and Les Troyens. Berlioz made significant contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation. He specified huge orchestral forces for some of his works, and conducted several concerts with more than 1,000 musicians. He also composed around 50 compositions for voice, accompanied by piano or orchestra. His influence was critical for the further development of Romanticism, especially in composers like Richard Wagner, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Franz Liszt, Richard Strauss, and Gustav Mahler.

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Heraldry

Heraldry is a broad term, encompassing the design, display, and study of armorial bearings (known as armory), as well as related disciplines, such as vexillology, together with the study of ceremony, rank, and pedigree.

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Hobby

A hobby is a regular activity that is done for enjoyment, typically during one's leisure time.

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Horus

Horus is one of the most significant ancient Egyptian deities.

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Hugh Oldham

Hugh Oldham (c.1452 – 25 June 1519) was a Bishop of Exeter and a notable patron of education.

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Ignatius of Loyola

Saint Ignatius of Loyola (Ignazio Loiolakoa, Ignacio de Loyola; – 31 July 1556) was a Spanish Basque priest and theologian, who founded the religious order called the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) and became its first Superior General.

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Japanese calendar

Japanese calendar types have included a range of official and unofficial systems.

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Japanese rebus monogram

A Japanese rebus monogram is a monogram in a particular style, which spells a name via a rebus, as a form of Japanese wordplay or visual pun.

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Jean-Pierre Dantan

Jean-Pierre Dantan (28 December 1800, in Paris – 6 September 1869, in Baden-Baden), known as Dantan the Younger, was a French portrait sculptor.

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John Burgess (host)

John Richard Burgess (born 4 June 1943) is an Australian television and radio personality and host, often referred to as "Burgo" and from his radio days "Baby John Burgess" or "Baby John", as the youngest presenter at the station.

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Kabuki

is a classical Japanese dance-drama.

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Kassel

Kassel (spelled Cassel until 1928) is a city located at the Fulda River in northern Hesse, Germany.

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Kidstreet

Kidstreet is a Canadian children's game show that aired from 1986 to 1992 and was hosted by Kevin Frank, with Kathy Morse as the announcer (one of the rare occasions of a woman holding this position; the pair also worked together on The Next Line, which was in production at the same time as Kidstreet during its last season in 1991-92), who also worked as associate producer.

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Kunisada

Utagawa Kunisada (歌川 国貞; also known as Utagawa Toyokuni III (三代歌川豊国); 1786 – 12 January 1865) was the most popular, prolific and commercially successful designer of ukiyo-e woodblock prints in 19th-century Japan.

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Kuwait

Kuwait (الكويت, or), officially the State of Kuwait (دولة الكويت), is a country in Western Asia.

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Language of thought hypothesis

The language of thought hypothesis (LOTH), sometimes known as thought ordered mental expression (TOME), is a view in linguistics, philosophy of mind and cognitive science, forwarded by American philosopher Jerry Fodor.

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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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Linguistics

Linguistics is the scientific study of language, and involves an analysis of language form, language meaning, and language in context.

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Lion Brewery, Inc.

Lion Brewery, Inc, in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, is one of the oldest breweries still in operation within Pennsylvania.

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Logo

A logo (abbreviation of logotype, from λόγος logos "word" and τύπος typos "imprint") is a graphic mark, emblem, or symbol used to aid and promote public identification and recognition.

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Lone Star Brewing Company

The Lone Star Brewery, built in 1884, was the first large mechanized brewery in Texas.

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Lucky Lager

Lucky Lager is an American lager with U.S. brewing and distribution rights held by the Pabst Brewing Company, and Canadian brand ownership held by Labatt Brewing, which is now part of AB InBev.

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Mickey's

Mickey's is a malt liquor made by the Miller Brewing Company.

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Middle Ages

In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages (or Medieval Period) lasted from the 5th to the 15th century.

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Mirror

A mirror is an object that reflects light in such a way that, for incident light in some range of wavelengths, the reflected light preserves many or most of the detailed physical characteristics of the original light, called specular reflection.

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Monogram

A monogram is a motif made by overlapping or combining two or more letters or other graphemes to form one symbol.

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Narragansett Brewing Company

The Narragansett Brewing Company is an American brewery founded in Cranston, Rhode Island in 1890.

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National Bohemian

National Bohemian Beer, colloquially "Natty Boh” and “National Boh,” is an American beer originally brewed in Baltimore, Maryland, but now owned by the Pabst Brewing Company.

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Olympia Brewing Company

The Olympia Brewing Company was a brewery in the northwest United States, located in Tumwater, Washington, near Olympia.

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P. Ballantine and Sons Brewing Company

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Pearl Brewing Company

The Pearl Brewing Company (also known as the Pearl Brewery or just Pearl) was an American brewery, established in 1883 in Downtown San Antonio, Texas, USA.

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Phonogram (linguistics)

A phonogram is a grapheme (written character) which represents a phoneme (speech sound) or combination of phonemes, such as the letters of the Latin alphabet or the Japanese kana.

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Pictogram

A pictogram, also called a pictogramme, pictograph, or simply picto, and in computer usage an icon, is an ideogram that conveys its meaning through its pictorial resemblance to a physical object.

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Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother

Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon (4 August 1900 – 30 March 2002) was the wife of King George VI and the mother of Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon.

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Ra

Ra (rꜥ or rˤ; also transliterated rˤw; cuneiform: ri-a or ri-ia) or Re (ⲣⲏ, Rē) is the ancient Egyptian sun god.

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Rainier Brewing Company

Rainier Brewing Company (1878–1999) was a Seattle, Washington, company that brewed Rainier Beer, a popular brand in the Pacific Northwest of the United States.

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Ramesses II

Ramesses II (variously also spelt Rameses or Ramses; born; died July or August 1213 BC; reigned 1279–1213 BC), also known as Ramesses the Great, was the third pharaoh of the 19th Dynasty of Egypt.

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Richard Weston (treasurer)

Sir Richard Weston (1465–1541), KB, of Sutton Place in Surrey, was a courtier and diplomat who served as Governor of Guernsey, Treasurer of Calais and Under-Treasurer of the Exchequer during the reign of King Henry VIII.

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Salmon

Salmon is the common name for several species of ray-finned fish in the family Salmonidae.

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Salmon (surname)

Salmon is a surname.

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Sanssouci

Sanssouci is the summer palace of Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, in Potsdam, near Berlin.

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Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst.

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Socle (architecture)

In architecture, a socle is a short plinth used to support a pedestal, sculpture or column.

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Sutton Place, Surrey

Sutton Place, 3 miles north-east of Guildford in Surrey, is a Grade I listed Tudor manor house built c. 1525 by Sir Richard Weston (d. 1541), courtier of Henry VIII.

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Tenugui

A Tenugui (手拭い) is a thin Japanese hand towel made of cotton.

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The Interpretation of Dreams

The Interpretation of Dreams (Die Traumdeutung) is an 1899 book by the psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, in which the author introduces his theory of the unconscious with respect to dream interpretation, and discusses what would later become the theory of the Oedipus complex.

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Ukiyo-e

Ukiyo-e is a genre of Japanese art which flourished from the 17th through 19th centuries.

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Verbal arithmetic

Verbal arithmetic, also known as alphametics, cryptarithmetic, cryptarithm or word addition, is a type of mathematical game consisting of a mathematical equation among unknown numbers, whose digits are represented by letters.

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Victor Hugo

Victor Marie Hugo (26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement.

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Visual pun

A visual pun is a pun involving an image or images (in addition to or instead of language), often based on a rebus.

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Voltaire

François-Marie Arouet (21 November 1694 – 30 May 1778), known by his nom de plume Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher famous for his wit, his attacks on Christianity as a whole, especially the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion, freedom of speech and separation of church and state.

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Waffle (game show)

Waffle is a British game show that aired on ITV from 24 March to 18 June 1998.

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Walter Hart

Walter Hart (or Walter Lyhert; died 24 May 1472) was a medieval Bishop of Norwich.

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Word play

Word play or wordplay (also: play-on-words) is a literary technique and a form of wit in which words used become the main subject of the work, primarily for the purpose of intended effect or amusement.

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Yagō

, literally meaning "house name", is a term applied in traditional Japanese culture to names passed down within a guild, studio, or other circumstance other than blood relations.

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Yamasa

Yamasa Corporation is a Japanese corporation founded in 1645 whose primary field of business is the manufacturing of soy sauce and various seasonings.

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Zee Bangla

Zee Bangla (জী বাংলা) is a Bengali language Cable television channel in India and Bangladesh.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebus

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