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The common element was the husband and wife getting together, with friends and family, then he parts her hair upwards at least three times. In modern times, the "parting hair" rite of passage is rarely observed, and when observed it is called Atha-gulem and done in the 8th month, with flowers and fruits, to cheer the woman in the late stages of ...
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
Albright special – used to tie two different diameters of line together, for instance to tie monofilament to braid; Alpine butterfly (also known as a butterfly loop) – a static loop mostly used by mountain climbers and rappellers for securing a carabiner to static rope; Alternate ring hitching – covering a ring in hitching can prevent damage
Binding knots are knots that either constrict a single object or hold two objects snugly together. Whippings, seizings and lashings serve a similar purpose to binding knots, but contain too many wraps to be properly called a knot. [1] In binding knots, the ends of rope are either joined together or tucked under the turns of the knot.
Letters of two friends that cross all the time, ending in a mise en abyme: Matt Beaumont: e: 2000 E-mail Saul Bellow: Herzog: 1964 Letters Real and imagined letters written by the protagonist Moses E. Herzog to family members, friends, and celebrities John Berger: From A to X: A Story in Letters: 2008 Letters
QWERTY, one of the few native English words with Q not followed by U, is derived from the first six letters of a standard keyboard layout. In English, the letter Q is almost always followed immediately by the letter U, e.g. quiz, quarry, question, squirrel. However, there are some exceptions.
Three knots often referred to as "true lover's knot", tied into a single line forming a loop. 1: also known as a Dutch bend; 2: also known as Matthew Walker knot; 3: also known as fisherman's knot/loop. The term true lover's knot, also called true love knot or simply love-knot amongst others, is used for many distinct knots.
"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" is an English-language pangram – a sentence that contains all the letters of the alphabet. The phrase is commonly used for touch-typing practice, testing typewriters and computer keyboards , displaying examples of fonts , and other applications involving text where the use of all letters in the ...