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Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Tuesday September 15, 2009

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:00 am
 
RAIDERS
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OF THE LOST
DINGBAT
 
Table of Unicode dingbats

My personal favorite:

Dingbat 275A, 
"heavy vertical bar"–

Unicode symbol 'heavy vertical bar'

Cf. March 7, 2003.
 

Friday, March 7, 2003

Friday March 7, 2003

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 4:00 am

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."
 

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