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  2. Coelbren y Beirdd - Wikipedia

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    The Coelbren y Beirdd (English: "Bards' lot") is a script created in the late eighteenth century by the Welsh antiquarian and literary forger Edward Williams, best known as Iolo Morganwg. [ 1 ] The script, an alphabet compared to that of Ancient Greek by Welsh writer Jane Williams , consisted of forty letters – twenty base letters, and a ...

  3. Fire insurance mark - Wikipedia

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    Fire insurance has over 200 years of history in America. The early fire marks of Benjamin Franklin's time can still be seen on some Philadelphia buildings as well as in other older American cities. Subscribers paid firefighting companies in advance for fire protection and in exchange would receive a fire mark to attach to their building.

  4. Hornbook - Wikipedia

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    The lesson sheet, which was first of vellum and later of paper, were typically inscribed with a large cross, [n 3] followed by alphabet letters, [n 4] numbers and in later version, short verse. [13] Hornbooks displayed letters of the alphabet, a syllabary and prayers for novice readers.

  5. Fire pit - Wikipedia

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    The Dakota fire pit is an efficient, simple fire design that produces little to no smoke. [1] Two small holes are dug in the ground: one for the firewood and the other to provide a draft of air. Small twigs are packed into the fire hole and readily combustible material is set on top and lit.

  6. Runic calendar - Wikipedia

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    The solution devised was to add three special runes to represent the remaining numbers: (arlaug; Golden Number 17), (tvimadur or tvímaður; Golden Number 18), and (belgthor; Golden Number 19). In 1636, Ole Worm documented the Younger Futhark numeral system, including these three characters, in his Runir seu Danica literatura antiquissima ...

  7. Benjamin Franklin's phonetic alphabet - Wikipedia

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    Franklin modified the standard English alphabet by omitting the letters c, j, q, w, x, and y, and adding new letters to explicitly represent the open-mid back rounded [ɔ] and unrounded [ʌ] vowels, and the consonants sh [ʃ], ng [ŋ], dh [ð], and th [θ]. It was one of the earlier proposed spelling reforms to the English language.

  8. History of Western typography - Wikipedia

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    The scribal letter known as textur or textualis, produced by the strong gothic spirit of blackletter from the hands of German area scribes, served as the model for the first text types. Johannes Gutenberg, around 1450, invented a lead type mold, applied it to an alphabet of about 24 characters, and used known press technology to print ink on ...

  9. Fraktur - Wikipedia

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    A modern sans-serif and four blackletter typefaces (left to right): Textur(a), Rotunda, Schwabacher and Fraktur.. Fraktur (German: [fʁakˈtuːɐ̯] ⓘ) is a calligraphic hand of the Latin alphabet and any of several blackletter typefaces derived from this hand.

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