I met a Tyler by the name of Jack Glick during a tour of the oldest Masonic lodge in the state of California. Jack was a tall thin man, grey haired with a big smile. He was over seventy years of age, and proud of the fact that he still stood erect and that he maintained...
The one phono-semantic compound name approach was not only accepted by John Glasgow Kerr but also accepted by Anatole Billequin (1837–1894), a French chemistry teacher of Beijing Tongwenguan. However, he disliked the phonic approach of word formation. In the book Huaxue Zhinan (化學指南, A...
During concerts in the 70s and 80s he would introduce the song Thunder Road, that was partially inspired by the poster of the Robert Mitchum movie of the same name, relating his tale of stumbling across the site. It is hard to tell if the place inspired the song, or it’s title, or ...
And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS...
The first is just a two-alphabet polyalphabetic using mixed alphabets created with the keywords. The second is a true polyalphabetic, but each group of five letters is enciphered using the same alphabet; so each group of five letters is a monoalphabetic cipher. 18. The letters added were S...
If there was any question about the black-and-gold beaded rosary, one only needs to look down. At the foot of the concrete statuary figure in blue (a monk? saint? piousOrbitreaders, help this heathen out!) is a grave marker in red granite. Along with the deceased’s name, dates, an...
One company collected the data from the breach and started a search engine in which anyone can enter the user’s name. If the user’s name matches with the database, the company sends threatening letters asking them to pay the company otherwise their information will be exposed. ...
Among Algonquin-speaking peoples, you findPagdadjinini,the little people of the forest. Their name means “wild man” and they’re known to be mischievous, but generally good-natured. In Delaware-speaking cultures, you haveWemategunis, a little people about as tall as a man’s waist. Li...
white people are running around having secret meetings in silly white hoods. I would venture to say most white people are not actively condoning racism. Many of us are disgusted by it. And on the other side, we see a people that has been held down for so long that many of them have ...
I am not sure whether to keep playing with you, or to stay silent in a hope that you’d go bored and get to sleep, so I try a little bit of both. But after being silent for another ten seconds, you move on to your another giggly activity: creating animals, alphabets, or words ...