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The split tally was accepted as legal proof in medieval courts and the Napoleonic Code (1804) still makes reference to the tally stick in Article 1333. [6] Along the Danube and in Switzerland the tally was still used in the 20th century in rural economies. The most prominent and best recorded use of the split tally stick or "nick-stick" [7] [8 ...
Others have read the poem as indicating that Tristan has left a longer message, perhaps in lines 77–78, or the entirety of lines 61–78. [10] In such a case the message may have been transcribed in notches on the branch, perhaps in the ogham alphabet, or in a fashion similar to the tally stick. [10]
The public domain melody of the song was borrowed for "I Love You", a song used as the theme for the children's television program Barney and Friends.New lyrics were written for the melody in 1982 by Indiana homemaker Lee Bernstein for a children's book titled "Piggyback Songs" (1983), and these lyrics were adapted by the television series in the early 1990s, without knowing they had been ...
A stick to beat the dog, then on refusal; A fire to burn the stick, then on refusal; Water to quench the fire, then on refusal; A bull to drink the water, then on refusal; A butcher to slaughter the bull, then on refusal; A rope to hang the butcher, then on refusal; A rat to gnaw the rope, then on refusal; A cat to eat the rat.
Tally marks, also called hash marks, are a form of numeral used for counting. They can be thought of as a unary numeral system . They are most useful in counting or tallying ongoing results, such as the score in a game or sport, as no intermediate results need to be erased or discarded.
The moral drawn from the fable by Babrius was that "Brotherly love is the greatest good in life and often lifts the humble higher". In his emblem book Hecatomgraphie (1540), Gilles Corrozet reflected on it that if there can be friendship among strangers, it is even more of a necessity among family members. [4]
Chauncy Hare Townshend, ca. 1828, painted by John Boaden Chauncy Hare Townshend, whose surname was spelt by his parents as Townsend (20 April 1798, Godalming, Surrey – 25 February 1868), was a 19th-century English poet, clergyman, mesmerist, collector, dilettante and hypochondriac.
In some traditions, the believer draws one lottery and looks for the corresponding poem to the lottery. The poems are written or printed on a piece of paper, usually 12–15 cm (4.7–5.9 in) long and 4 cm (1.6 in) wide, with a Jueju poem on each piece as the answer to the believer from the gods.