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Photograph of a boy having made "Lightning", from Jayne's String Figures and How to Make Them. "Osage Two Diamonds". Illustrations from Jayne's String Figures and How to Make Them. A string figure is a design formed by manipulating string on, around, and using one's fingers or sometimes between the fingers of multiple people. String figures may ...
Blanagram: rearranging the letters of a word or phrase and substituting one single letter to produce a new word or phrase; Letter bank: using the letters from a certain word or phrase as many times as wanted to produce a new word or phrase; Jumble: a kind of word game in which the solution of a puzzle is its anagram
"Opening A", seen from below "Two Diamonds" Heraklas' "Plinthios Brokhos" made in a doubled cord.Resembles "A Hole in the Tree" with different crossings. "Cradle", the first (and opening) position of Cat's cradle "Soldier's Bed" from Cat's cradle "Candles" from Cat's cradle "Diamonds" from Cat's cradle "Cat's Eye" from Cat's cradle "Fish in a Dish" from Cat's cradle "Grandfather Clock" from ...
An example of string figures from Jayne's book. Jayne published the first book on string figures [5] in 1906 titled String Figures and How to Make Them. [6] The book provided instructions on how to create 129 string figures that were identified by anthropologists studying traditional societies [7] such as those in Congo-Kasai [8] and the ...
In a figure / ground ambigram, letters fit together so the negative space around and between one word spells another word. [42] In Gestalt psychology, figure–ground perception is known as identifying a figure from the background. For example, black words on a printed paper are seen as the "figure", and the white sheet as the "background".
HTML and XML provide ways to reference Unicode characters when the characters themselves either cannot or should not be used. A numeric character reference refers to a character by its Universal Character Set/Unicode code point, and a character entity reference refers to a character by a predefined name.
A letter to Health Secretary Wes Streeting, dated January 9, said: “Too many black men are dying from a curable disease, and you have the power to make changes that could save hundreds of lives ...
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