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- developing the most widely used system of shorthand, known now as Pitman Shorthand ... popular quickly. Although the need for shorthand has been largely superseded ...12 KB (1,802 words) - 12:46, 22 July 2022
- A stenotype or shorthand machine is a specialized chorded keyboard ... a machine with a keyboard, to produce shorthand transcripts of spoken material ...10 KB (1,562 words) - 19:57, 9 February 2023
- to master, and a new system was needed. Shorthand systems were developed ... There are specific braille codes for representing shorthand (produced ...14 KB (2,290 words) - 22:35, 20 November 2023
- around at least since Isaac Pitman taught shorthand in Great Britain via correspondence ... Pitman mailed texts transcribed into shorthand on postcards and received ...17 KB (2,511 words) - 15:30, 29 January 2024
- of the promotion of good states of affairs. In shorthand, this is to say that teleological theories define the "right" in terms of the "good ...13 KB (2,107 words) - 05:34, 27 February 2023
- they were used only as a substitute for taking shorthand notes. During Ikuba’s visit, Western Electric had agreed to open their patents to companies ...10 KB (1,542 words) - 07:15, 16 June 2023
- Redox (shorthand for reduction/oxidation reaction) describes all chemical reactions in which atoms have their oxidation number (oxidation state ...12 KB (1,809 words) - 02:49, 8 December 2022
- also known as the Testimony Against War—a shorthand description of the stand generally taken by members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers ...12 KB (1,779 words) - 03:35, 24 July 2023
- Zhang Binglin (December 25, 1868-June 14, 1936) was a Chinese philologist, textual critic and anti-Manchu revolutionary. His philological works ...11 KB (1,492 words) - 05:54, 13 June 2023
- *Charyn, Jerome. Savage Shorthand: the Life and Death of Isaac Babel. Random House, 2005. ISBN 0679643060 *Mann, Robert. The Dionysian Art of ...11 KB (1,625 words) - 18:50, 7 March 2024
- Arabic and Sanskrit, as well as Morse code and shorthand. He was responsible for the translation of Bernhard Riemann’s 1854 paper on non-Euclidean ...12 KB (1,733 words) - 11:09, 10 May 2023
- who transcribed Cook's messages in shorthand and transcribed and published ... On Spiritualism Founded On Transcripts Of Shorthand Notes Taken Down, Over ...33 KB (4,676 words) - 00:39, 2 May 2023
- It is also sometimes used by classical musicians as a shorthand way of indicating chords (though it is not generally used in modern musical compositions ...16 KB (2,493 words) - 19:45, 26 March 2024
- (1) Use mathematics as shorthand language, rather than as an engine of inquiry. (2) Keep to them till you have done. (3) Translate into English ...14 KB (2,073 words) - 18:02, 20 July 2023
- The Westphalian System is used as a shorthand by academics to describe the system of states which the world is made up of today. In 1998 a symposium ...15 KB (2,168 words) - 19:34, 15 August 2023
- Antananarivo is the capital, largest city and the economic center of Madagascar. It was known by its French name Tananarive or the colonial shorthand ...13 KB (1,867 words) - 05:19, 31 July 2023
- "I believe that..." are simply shorthand for the statement "based on my knowledge, understanding, and interpretation of the prevailing ...18 KB (2,675 words) - 06:46, 16 June 2023
- where \frac{d\mathbf{v}}{d\mathbf{r}} is shorthand for the dyadic ... as \partial_i v_j where \partial_i is shorthand for \partial /\partial ...36 KB (5,462 words) - 20:38, 3 May 2023
- The use of H+ is as shorthand for H3O; 2 H2O → H3O+ + OH- = H2O → H+ + OH- , which leads to the definition that in Arrhenius acid-base reactions ...18 KB (2,642 words) - 07:40, 14 June 2023
- Wilshire department store, taught typing and shorthand at a high school, and supplemented her income by working as an extra in the film industry. She ...17 KB (2,707 words) - 09:04, 18 November 2022
- appeals who would have found a first-class shorthand-typist, unpaid, a perfect godsend and I told her so. She was inclined to be critical about those; ...19 KB (3,017 words) - 16:28, 11 November 2022
- it can describe a psychological concept, a shorthand means of describing and explaining unhealthy human behavior. Third, it can describe a psychological ...25 KB (3,378 words) - 22:22, 7 January 2024
- " or "Wilhelmus W." (most likely shorthand for “William of Wichwood”). The poem itself also seems to point towards Langland's ...19 KB (3,143 words) - 11:09, 10 May 2023
- * 8vo is shorthand for "octavo," a book size. * The Eight: Eight American painters who exhibited together only once in 1908 in New York ...21 KB (2,909 words) - 06:48, 13 June 2023
- 1840 the English educator Sir Isaac Pitman taught shorthand by mail.Benn Pitman, Sir Isaac Pitman, His Life and Labors (Cincinnati, OH: Press of C.J. ...24 KB (3,446 words) - 06:19, 15 June 2023
- [[Image:Fat triglyceride shorthand formula.PNG|thumbnail|200px|A triglyceride with a glycerol molecule on the left and three fatty acids attached ...24 KB (3,603 words) - 23:47, 11 January 2023
- training. Averill suggests that it was "a shorthand for chord types other than major triads," and says that the use of the word for "dominant ...25 KB (3,778 words) - 08:05, 20 September 2023
- Press, 1981. Often referred to by the shorthand “RB80” or “RB1980,” the standard masculine version. *Heffernan, Thomas J. “Christian ...25 KB (3,878 words) - 09:13, 27 September 2023
- Gladys Davis, recorded his readings in shorthand. Had Gladys not provided her services, there would be no record of Cayce's readings today. ...23 KB (3,585 words) - 18:08, 12 February 2024
- with which to engage. The term is also used as shorthand for what is seen as a radicalization of the French, academic left—and its American cousins—following ...25 KB (3,653 words) - 05:46, 30 November 2022
- and incomplete sentences. Creating his own shorthand language, Winchell was responsible for introducing into the American vernacular such now-familiar ...22 KB (3,440 words) - 22:30, 3 May 2023
- myth may be defined as the reduction to narrative shorthand of ritual mime performed on public festivals, and in many cases recorded pictorially." ...26 KB (3,852 words) - 22:45, 10 November 2022
- decades. He typically signed his sculptures in shorthand as Malli or simply Ma. Dasoja and his son Chavana from Balligavi worked as the architects for ...30 KB (4,528 words) - 17:15, 18 March 2023
- were ordered to be taken down in shorthand in order to enable the deputies to see how the professors acquitted themselves. ====École Polytechnique==== ...29 KB (4,634 words) - 07:15, 10 August 2022
- that may have influenced the development of shorthand. === Religious polemics === As Henry VIII's advisor and secretary, More helped to write ...28 KB (4,440 words) - 21:23, 30 April 2023
- Although "Scientology" is most often used as shorthand for the Church of Scientology, a number of groups practice Scientology and Dianetics ...33 KB (4,873 words) - 17:26, 25 January 2023
- Note: p (protium), D (deuterium), and T (tritium) are shorthand notation for the main three isotopes of hydrogen. For reactions with two products ...39 KB (6,029 words) - 23:53, 16 November 2022
- simply a reflection of this term, and perhaps a shorthand for a phrase such as jeu de la cross (the game of the hooked sticks). [https://www.etymonline ...36 KB (5,848 words) - 22:41, 30 April 2023
- The term seems to be applied as a form of shorthand to any fugitive or outlaw. Even at this early stage, the name Robin Hood is used as that ...35 KB (5,638 words) - 17:08, 16 August 2023
- governs. Zhuyin developed out of a form of Chinese shorthand based on Chinese characters in the early 1900s and has elements of both an alphabet and a ...44 KB (6,641 words) - 08:32, 23 July 2023
- is also commonly seen in personal notes as shorthand, which is even more simplified than simplified characters, though it may legible only to the writer. ...45 KB (6,288 words) - 22:48, 10 February 2024
- LGBT, or "Queer" as a counterculture shorthand for LGBT, did not gain much acceptance as an umbrella term until much later in the 1980s ...40 KB (5,610 words) - 14:15, 4 February 2023
- as "wind-water." This is a cultural shorthand taken from the following passage of the Zhangshu (Book of Burial) by Guo Pu ( 郭璞) of ...33 KB (4,875 words) - 13:00, 21 January 2023
- ã for an or am (in the style of scribe's shorthand) and so forth when space needed to be saved. Current printings remove most, but not all, of ...44 KB (6,927 words) - 23:10, 3 March 2023
- may have indicated dyslexia, but he taught himself shorthand to compensate and was able to achieve academically through determination and self-discipline ...37 KB (5,512 words) - 23:30, 17 May 2023
- quot;two-three-seventy four" (2-3-74), shorthand for February-March 1974. He described the initial visions as laser beams and geometric patterns ...41 KB (6,282 words) - 03:22, 24 November 2022
- Laius and marries his mother Jocasta). The shorthand term, "oedipal," (later explicated by Joseph Sandler, 1960, in "On the Concept ...46 KB (6,384 words) - 01:27, 12 April 2023
- Beauty and the Beast. This can be useful as a shorthand but can also erase the coloring and details of a story. Tolkien, 18. ===Morphology=== ...47 KB (7,154 words) - 00:31, 25 March 2024
- about this particular form of Egyptian shorthand. Harris accepted this explanation and the translation continued nonetheless. Harris acted as ...44 KB (6,932 words) - 07:39, 27 February 2023
- using dots. The earliest example of the modern shorthand tablature survives from around the twelfth century C.E.. An earlier form of music notation ...45 KB (6,609 words) - 01:21, 15 July 2023
