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In an open fishbowl, one chair is left empty. In a closed fishbowl, all chairs are filled. The moderator introduces the topic and the participants start discussing the topic. The audience outside the fishbowl listen in on the discussion. In an open fishbowl, any member of the audience can, at any time, occupy the empty chair and join the fishbowl.
A book cipher is a cipher in which each word or letter in the plaintext of a message is replaced by some code that locates it in another text, the key. A simple version of such a cipher would use a specific book as the key, and would replace each word of the plaintext by a number that gives the position where that word occurs in that book.
Collection of the Harry Potter book series, an example of a heptalogy. A heptalogy (/ h ɛ p ˈ t æ l ə dʒ i /; from Greek ἑπτα-hepta-, "seven" and -λογία-logia, "discourse") is a compound literary or narrative work that is made up of seven distinct works. [1]
The Golden Key is a fairy tale written by George MacDonald. It was published in Dealings with the Fairies (1867). It is particularly noted for the intensity of the suggestive imagery, which implies a spiritual meaning to the story without providing a transparent allegory for the events in it.
The Keys to the Kingdom is a fantasy-adventure book series written by Garth Nix, comprising seven books published between 2003 and 2010.The series chronicles the adventures of a boy named Arthur, who becomes involved with a magical world called the 'House'; he is on a quest to take back the House from seven antagonistic 'Trustees'.
Seven Keys to Baldpate is a 1913 play by George M. Cohan based on a novel by Earl Derr Biggers.The dramatization was one of Cohan's most innovative plays. It baffled some audiences and critics but became a hit, running for nearly a year in New York, another year in Chicago and receiving later revivals; Cohan starred in the 1935 revival.
The Twelve Keys of Basil Valentine is a widely reproduced alchemical book attributed to Valentine, first published in 1599 by Johann Thölde. [2] It contains two parts, the second of which houses the twelve keys. These were accompanied by woodcut engravings from later publications in the early seventeenth century.
In pin tumbler locks, the series of key cuts on a key causes the pins to line up at the shear line or gate so the lock will open. In warded locks, the key cuts bypass the wards so the key can push or pull the bolt. [6] Key pin In a pin tumbler lock, the key pin is in contact with the key. It has varying lengths, corresponding to the key's ...