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Telestrations is a party game in which players are prompted to sketch a word listed on a card, then guess what the other players have drawn. The game is produced by The Op (USAopoly). The game is produced by The Op (USAopoly).
Telephone (American English and Canadian English), [1] or Chinese whispers (some Commonwealth English), is an internationally popular children's game in which messages are whispered from person to person and then the original and final messages are compared. [2]
Example of how a telestrator might annotate a medical image shared during a telemedicine session. The telestrator was invented by physicist Leonard Reiffel , who used it to draw illustrations on a series of science shows he did for public television 's WTTW in Chicago in the late 1950s.
Broken Picture Telephone was created by American indie developer Alishah Novin in 2007. [1] After Jay Is Games published a review of the game in June of that year, the influx of new players temporarily overwhelmed the BrokenPictureTelephone.com servers even though the game had been migrated to new servers in anticipation of such an increase in site visitors. [4]
Replica of a Chappe telegraph on the Litermont near Nalbach, Germany. Telegraphy is the long-distance transmission of messages where the sender uses symbolic codes, known to the recipient, rather than a physical exchange of an object bearing the message.
Layamon's Brut remains one of the best extant examples of early Middle English. [3] During an era in English history when most prose and poetry were composed in French, Layamon wrote for his illiterate, impoverished religious audience in Worcestershire. [4] In 1216, around the time Layamon wrote, King Henry III of England came to the throne.
All that is known of him is from the Gesta regum Anglorum (Deeds of the English Kings), written by the eminent medieval historian William of Malmesbury in about 1125. [1] [2] Being a fellow monk of the same abbey, William almost certainly obtained his account directly from people who knew Eilmer when he was an old man. [1]
William Ætheling (Middle English: [ˈwiliəm ˈaðəliŋɡ], Old English: [ˈæðeliŋɡ]; 5 August 1103 – 25 November 1120), commonly called Adelin (sometimes Adelinus, Adelingus, A(u)delin or other Latinised Norman-French variants of Ætheling) [a] was the son of Henry I of England by his wife Matilda of Scotland, and was thus heir apparent to the English throne.