Steganography
Concealing that there even is a message.
Steganos- Greek, “hidden or concealed”
Herodotus mentions the first two examples in “Histories,” 440 BCE.
In 499 BCE, Histiaeus tattooed a message on the head of a slave telling Aristagoras to revolt against the Persians. He allowed the slaves’s hair to grow back and sent him to Aristogoras with instructions to shave the slave’s head.
Demaratus is also mentioned by Herodotus as having sent a message into the wood of a wax tablet, under the wax.
Johannes Trithemius wrote a whole book on the subject in 1499 (Steganographia) which was, itself, disguised as a book on magic
Lucus a non lucendo
“Grove, from “not shining.” A ridiculous etymology or association
Rootin?
Tootin
paraprosdokian
A garden path sentence formed with a clause. “I’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn’t it”
Merkaba
(later)
Fulgerite
A rock formed of lightning-fused sand
Syzygy
An eclipse. Any time an astral body is in conjunction or opposition to the sun.
Temperature at which iron just barely begins to glow (daylight)
1000F, 580C
Forge Welding Temp
Bright butter yellow
2300+
Area of a circle
πr²
Volume of a sphere
(4/3)πr3
Surface area of a sphere
4πr²
A nickname for someone with the same name as you
Tocayo, sp
Persian ice house
Yakchāl
Shape allowed cool air in the door and hot air out of the top. Ice was below grade.
Dated back to at least 400BCE
The arrangent of spaces around a CSS element is called
The Box Model
List parts of the Box Model, from the center out
Content, padding, border, (outline), margin
Which side do you lay on for gastric relief?
Left
Anamnesis
Literally: Greek for “memory”
Platonic: remembering knowledge from before you were born, accessing the great consciousness, from with self. They claim “true knowledge” of virtue and beauty comes from this, not from reason.
Christianity: “do this in memory of me,” remembering God’s deeds and the purpose of the Eucharist
What is a bird without feet?
A martlet.
A heraldic symbol of restless striving.
Also used as a fourth son’s mark of cadency
A redundant phrase, such as “added bonus” or “end result.”
Pleonasm. May be used for emphasis or may simply be an idiom. Or mistake.
