RAIDERS
OF THE LOST
DINGBAT
OF THE LOST
DINGBAT
My personal favorite:
Dingbat 275A,
"heavy vertical bar"–
Cf. March 7, 2003.
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Friday, March 7, 2003
Friday March 7, 2003
Lovely, Dark and Deep
On this date in 1923, "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," by Robert Frost, was published. On this date in 1999, director Stanley Kubrick died. On this date in 1872, Piet Mondrian was born.
"….mirando il punto
a cui tutti li tempi son presenti"
— Dante, Paradiso, XVII, 17-18
Chez Mondrian
Kertész, Paris, 1926
6:23 PM Friday, March 7:
From Measure Theory, by Paul R. Halmos, Van Nostrand, 1950:
"The symbol 
is used throughout the entire book in place of such phrases as 'Q.E.D.' or 'This completes the proof of the theorem' to signal the end of a proof."