Take decadent chocolate. Add delicate gold leaf. Enjoy. These edible icons by Portland's Alma Chocolate are inspired by the Latin root of cacao — "food of the gods."
Nyctograph: A device invented by Lewis Carroll that allowed him to write in the dark if he woke in the middle of the night (Credit: Tom McShane)
NyctographIn 1891, the writer Lewis Carroll invented the nyctograph, a device consisting of a flat board with a series of squares cut into it that could be used, letter by letter, to guide his pen as he wrote in the dark. Carroll even invented an encrypted alphabet just for the purpose: “I tried rows of square holes,” he wrote, “but the letters were still apt to be illegible. Then I said to myself, ‘Why not invent a square alphabet, using only dots at the corners, and lines along the sides?’” Carroll kept the device inside a notebook in his bed. “If I wake and think of something I wish to record,” he later explained, “[I] draw from under the pillow a small memorandum book containing my nyctograph, write a few lines, or even a few pages . . . replace the book, and go to sleep again.”
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Word Origin and History for nycto-
before vowels nyct-, word-forming element meaning "night," from Latinized form of Greek nykto-, comb. form of nyx "night" (see night).
Wayne Cochran The saying “the higher the hair the closer to God,” usually only applies to women’s 60s-style bouffants, but in this case I’m applying the saying to men’s pompadours. Let’s face it, a lot of TLC, hairspray and wax goes into such a manicured coiff. And sometimes they’re HUGE. I mean lik...
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pompadour
ˈpɒmpədɔː,ˈpɒmpədʊə/
noun
1.
a woman's hairstyle in which the hair is turned back off the forehead in a roll.
"she combed her hair into a high, curly pompadour"
"In pictures blazing with anger, Gilbert and George chronicled a changing Britain. Should they really be seen as national treasures? As two shows celebrate their often shocking work, the duo talk skinheads, gentrification – and settle some old scores"
In pictures blazing with anger, they chronicled a changing Britain. Should they really be seen as national treasures? As two shows celebrate their often shocking work, the duo talk skinheads, gentrification – and settle some old scores
A skinhead is a member of a subculture originating among working class youths in London, England in the 1960s that soon spread to other parts of the United Kingdom, with a second working class skinheadmovement spreading worldwide in the 1980s.
