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  • Those who might smile at such elementary requirements should remember that reading and writing implied a complete mastery of the Latin grammar and a practical knowledge of the system of abbreviations and contractions, a knowledge of palæography which is not now required either of schoolboys or advanced scholars.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

  • How often does palæography figure into a sf story or film?

    Making Light: Boomdeyada boomdeyada boomdeyada boomdeyada 2010

  • He was able to see what was sad in porn ography, beautiful in atomic explosions, strange in shadows and photograms, comic in Jesus engravings, rich in black and white.

    Vitro Nasu » 2008 » July 2008

  • Lonely and shielded from life, Emma falls in love with her son's friend Antonio (Edoardo Gabbriellini), a chef, after tasting a particularly rapturous dish of prawns he has prepared (Ms. Swinton has called the sequence "prawn - ography").

    Recipe for 'Prawn-ography' 2010

  • He was able to see what was sad in porn ography, beautiful in atomic explosions, strange in shadows and photograms, comic in Jesus engravings, rich in black and white.

    R.I.P Bruce Conner 2008

  • Totally OT, but I was wondering if anybody here would be willing to post about the elimination of the Chair of Palæography at KCL, the only such chair in the English-speaking world.

    Making Light: Boomdeyada boomdeyada boomdeyada boomdeyada 2010

  • I really wish I had a scanner so I could share in this hair-ography, because it is delightfully fun!

    Her Bad Hair | Her Bad Mother 2007

  • Just another ography by Dave Kisor on Monday, May 18, 2009 at 10: 24: 21 PM

    The Funny Side of Porn Censorship 2009

  • Second, you never mentioned the many other talks that were given about marriage that did not mention race, but other things such as not viewing ography, or abuse of any kind.

    LDS Church warns Young Men against Interracial Marriage | Mind on Fire 2008

  • The transformation of sentiment into self-seeking, ordinarily slow, tortuous, and veiled by hypocrisy in better educated people, was swift and direct in the old “bear,” who demonstrated the superiority of shrewd tipple-ography over book-learned typography.

    Two Poets 2007

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