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Palmistry is the pseudoscientific practice of fortune-telling through the study of the palm. [1] Also known as palm reading, chiromancy, chirology or cheirology, the practice is found all over the world, with numerous cultural variations. Those who practice palmistry are generally called palmists, hand readers, hand analysts, or chirologists.
Marriage Lines is a British television sitcom first broadcast between 1963 and 1966. The series gave Richard Briers and Prunella Scales , its lead stars, a significant boost in their careers. At first titled The Marriage Lines , the programme was written by Richard Waring , and was later adapted for radio.
Instead the article is an elucidation on things like the mounds and lines of the hand and an elaboration of the techniques and intricacies of palmistry. There is a small section, about 3 lines, of criticism, and appears to have been put in, apologetically, by somebody whose head is firmly screwed on his / her shoulders.
Back in France he worked as a painter and writer before becoming interested in palmistry. Desbarolles married and from this marriage there was a daughter, Marthe Desbarolles who also became a graphologist and continued her fathers work. He died in Paris and was buried in the Pére Lachaise Cemetery. [3]
It is rumored that he and socialite Durie Malcolm eloped after a drunken party in Palm Beach in 1947. But John's father, Joseph P. Kennedy squashed the marriage and possibly even made the records ...
Polyandry (/ ˈ p ɒ l i ˌ æ n d r i, ˌ p ɒ l i ˈ æ n-/; from Ancient Greek πολύ (polú) 'many' and ἀνήρ (anḗr) 'man') is a form of polygamy in which a woman takes two or more husbands at the same time.
Onychomancy: fingernails analysis. Onychomancy or onymancy (from Greek onychos, 'fingernail', and manteia, 'fortune-telling') is an ancient form of divination using fingernails as a "crystal ball" or "scrying mirror" and is considered a subdivision of palmistry (also called chiromancy).
The impaled shield is bisected in pale, that is by a vertical line, with each half of the shield displaying one coat of arms. Most often the practice is used to denote the union of a husband and wife in marriage, but impalement is also used to display unions with an ecclesiastical office, academic position, government office, or mystical union.