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  JewishEncyclopedia.com - CHRONOGRAM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Chronograms are especially popular in the East, there being several books in Persian on the art of constructing a "ta'rikh," the Persian equivalent for "chronogram" (see Rodgers, "Tarikhs," in "Jour.
The earliest chronogram in Jewish literature is one found in a Hebrew poem of the year 1205 by Al-Ḥarizi (ed.
While the epitaphs, in addition to the chronograms, in many cases directly mention the dates, many manuscripts, and an even greater number of printed books, are dated simply by means of chronograms; authors, copyists, and typographers rivaling one another in hiding the dates in intricate chronograms, most difficult to decipher.
www.jewishencyclopedia.com /view.jsp?artid=495&letter=C   (1139 words)

  
 Chronogram - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A chronogram is a sentence or inscription in which specific letters, interpreted as numerals, stand for a particular date when rearranged.
Chronograms in versification are referred to as chronosticha, if they are a hexameter, and chronodisticha if they are a distich.
The earliest chronogram in Jewish literature is one found in a Hebrew poem of the year 1205 by Al-Harizi (ed.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chronogram   (1317 words)

  
 Chronogram
Obviously the chronograms are destroyed because of ignorance.
The facade of the house was renovated in 1980.
This chronogram belongs to the (catholic) Southern Germany and to the baroque period.
www.mathematische-basteleien.de /chronograms.htm   (944 words)

  
 Chronogram - Framed: The Politics of Language - Jul 2006   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Chronogram » 2006 » 07 » News and Politics
A weekly e-newsletter from the publisher of Chronogram containing: Up-to-date Mid-Hudson events, listings, selections of insight for conscious living, and social and political commentary.
As a cognitive linguist, prolific author, challenger of Noam Chomsky, and professor of linguistics at Berkeley, George Lakoff looks at a single word and sees more than a simple grouping of letters assigned a specific meaning or meanings.
www.chronogram.com /issue/2006/07/news/index.php?&pg=6   (763 words)

  
 txt_abjad   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
/taariix kahnaa/is to compose a chronogram-- a verse or line or phrase that records the year of some particular event, when the letters are converted into numerals according to the values prescribed above.
The chronogram title of Mir Amman's famous Fort William college version of "Story of the Four Dervishes" is /baaG o bahaar/ ("Garden and Spring"); this title adds up to 1217 AH (1802/3), and thus encodes the year of composition.
The phrase is indeed an apt one, for it both fixes the date of the Mutiny and expresses Ghalib's view of it.
www.columbia.edu /itc/mealac/pritchett/00urduhindilinks/txt_abjad.html   (624 words)

  
 Jennifer May : Nonfiction Writing
Happily, the answer to these pestering concerns is as simple as a blade of grass and as ancient as the earth.
As a group, turtles are as bad off,” says Erik Kiviat, Executive Director of Hudsonia, an environmental research group in the Hudson Valley, New York.
Legend has it Rapunzel, that fabled damsel with exceedingly long hair, was named by her witch captor for the ramps—also known as wild leeks—that the girl's father stole from the witch's garden.
www.jennifermay.com /recent-clips.html   (887 words)

  
 ChronoLab 3.0 Doc 3/6
These values must be in a file with the same characteristics of a data file and are not taken into account for the scaling of the upper and lower limits of the chronogram (so you may need to manually adjust the vertical scale for this plot).
Each record contains: the time associated with the corresponding mean in the chronogram, the number of values used to compute this mean, its calculated value, its standard deviation and its standard error.
The results of these tests are summarized in an additional table that, for each interval, presents: the time associated with the corresponding interval, degrees of freedom, t statistic, p-value and, with a confidence level of 95%, the test significance.
www.tsc.uvigo.es /BIO/Bioing/ChrLDoc3.html   (2152 words)

  
 The Tribune...Saturday Plus Head
According to the former inscription, it was cast by Shah Nazir under the orders of Shah Wali Khan, the chief minister of Ahmad Shah Abdali.
The last line of the second inscription forms a chronogram — a phrase whose each letter has a numerical value which when added gives a specific date.
The date given by the chronogram on the gun is 1169 Hijri (1755-56 AD).
www.tribuneindia.com /1998/98oct31/saturday/head4.htm   (561 words)

  
 The Jakarta Post - The Journal of Indonesia Today
For instance, the chronogram Luhuring Sembah Trusing Allah, when decoded, means 1920: luhur/noble = 0, sembah/respectful gesture = 2, trus/deep = 9, Allah/God = 1, while Ganda Kusuma Sekaring Bumi means 1999: ganda/scent = 9, kusuma/bloom = 9, sekar/flower = 9, bumi/earth = 1.
Apart from phrases, images and illustrations could also be used in representing a Javanese chronogram, and was known as sengkalan memet, or complicated chronogram.
An exceptional example can be found along the Bangsal Kemagangan, or the Hall of Royal Novices, at the Sultanate Court of Ngayogyakarta Hadiningrat in Yogyakarta, where two dragons are arranged back-to-back in a painting, with one facing left and the other right, with their tails entwined in the middle.
www.thejakartapost.com /yesterdaydetail.asp?fileid=20030330.G01   (844 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Chronogram: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Chronograms continued and concluded, more than 5000 in number;: A supplement-volume to "Chronograms," published in the year 1882; by James Hilton (Unknown Binding - 1885)
Chronograms collected, more than 4,000 in number,: Since the publication of the two preceding volumes in 1882 and 1885; by James Hilton (Unknown Binding - 1895)
Antient Biblical chronograms: Further illustrated and applied to the rectification of biblical chronology by William Henry Black (Unknown Binding - 1865)
www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=Chronogram&tag=httpexplaguid-20&index=books&link_code=qs&page=1   (376 words)

  
 WAMC RoundTable - Cultural Cowboys - Brian Mahoney   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Brian Mahoney is the editor of Chronogram, a general-interest magazine in NY's Mid-Hudson Valley covering the arts, politics, environmental, and spiritual issues.
Chronogram Assistant Editor Peter Aaron is filling in for Brian Mahoney this week
Chronogram's Halloween party, which is at the Skytop Steakhouse and Brewery in Kingston on Friday.
www.wamc.org /bmahoneycowboy.html   (507 words)

  
 SikhSpectrum.com Monthly. Book Review: Guru Nanak and the Sikh Religion by McLeod
egarding (iv) the Chronogram, Dr McLeod holds that such riddles appeared much later, in 18th century and that the date seems to have been tempered with, the year in the inscription had four figures, the fourth figure appears to have been erased and the original was 1226 and not 917 A.H. McLeod's Theory Exploded
917 clearly chiseled in the stone inscription is also a clear pointer to the correctness of the letters constituting the chronogram which, therefore, does not warrant any alteration in its wording.
(c) the chronogram quite correctly conforms to the year inscribed.
www.sikhspectrum.com /072002/rajvir.htm   (1174 words)

  
 Bookselling This Week: Independent Bookstores Make Good Copy
Independent bookstores in New York State's Hudson Valley were featured in the December issue of Chronogram: A Mid-Hudson Magazine of Events and Ideas, a widely distributed free publication.
Nina Shengold, author of the piece, entitled "Best-Sellers" focused on two of the region's bookstores -- Ariel Booksellers in New Paltz and Oblong Books and Music in Millerton and Rhinebeck, and, in a sidebar to the article listed an impressive 11 Book Sense bookstores located in the region, several with multiple locations.
Chronogram posts the Book Sense Bestseller List on its Web site, because Shengold said, "We're an arts and culture monthly, with what I'd describe as an alternative philosophy and a distinctly regional flavor.
news.bookweb.org /news/3221.html   (609 words)

  
 Steven Novella
This is the recap of a talk given at the June 13, 2004 CDHS monthly meeting.
Lorna Tychostup, photographer and Senior Editor for Chronogram Magazine, spoke at our June meeting to update us on life and the struggle for survival in Iraq.
A slide show illustrated her discussion and the group later viewed the impressive collection of photographs she took during her fact-gathering trips.
humanists.net /cdhs/recap-2004-06-13-Tychostup.html   (988 words)

  
 Response to Miachael Schwartz article "What triggered the Shia insurrection?"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
As soon as it is on the web I will sent you both articles and the http's for them.
I am Senior Editor of Chronogram magazine (www.Chronogram.com), a progressive monthly publication with a distribution of 20,000 in the Mid-Hudson Valley of New York.
I recently returned home from 6 weeks in Iraq, It was my second trip -- having spent 3 weeks there last Feb. I remain in daily contact with people on the ground.
www.veteransforpeace.org /Response_to_Michael_042604.htm   (1007 words)

  
 Chronograms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
A chronogram is a phrase or sentence in which Roman numerals are hidden.
From this chart, you can see that the Roman system is a base 10 system with a secondary base of 5.
Contemporary writers pointed out that his name in Latin (Diocles Augustus) is a chronogram for 666.
www.sju.edu /~rhall/Multi/chronograms.html   (206 words)

  
 What do you thinks about this new chronogram system for MNBIOS? (Development MSX Forum)
These are the general rules for control the cpu's time.
For that reason the kernel knows if is a msx of 60 or 50 interrupts per second.
I hope with this chronogram to get the attemption of the game's developers.
www.msx.org /forumtopic4898.html   (840 words)

  
 Chronogram - Meat in our Midst - Jun 2005 (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Chronogram - Meat in our Midst - Jun 2005 (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu)
Chronogram » 2005 » 06 » Whole Living Guide » Meat in our Midst
A friend and I realized the other day that several of our vegetarian friends are now eating meat—some occasionally, others voraciously—and we suddenly felt very alone.
www.chronogram.com.cob-web.org:8888 /issue/2005/06/wholeliving   (2198 words)

  
 The Rosendale Cafe, Chronogram Best Performance Space 1998, 1999, Poughkeepsie Journal Rated Four Stars for Food and ...
Chronogram Choice: Rosendale Cafe 434 Main St., Rosendale.
We tip our hats to the Rosendale Cafe again this year as the Best Performance Space, and here’s why: Every Friday and Saturday—that’s 104 nights per annum, not including special events like Trash Town or the occasional Thursday evening gig—the Cafe presents the most exciting and diverse musical performers in the area.
So, the choice is yours—you can go and revisit the early Eighties with the teeming masses at the Civic Center when Styx comes to town, or sit twenty-five feet or less from Vance Gilbert, or dance in the aisles to Soñando at the Cafe.
www.rosendalecafe.com /best.php   (241 words)

  
 Cultural Activities Content
Mahoney is editor-in-chief of Chronogram, an award-winning regional magazine of politics, culture, health, and spirituality in New York's Hudson Valley.
Founded in 1993, Chronogram has grown from a cultural events calendar into a dynamic outlet for advocacy journalism and cultural reportage, part of the vital independent press operating outside the corporate media paradigm.
Mahoney will reveal who owns what media in this country and the importance behind the ownership, coupled with an explanation of how Chronogram and other publications operate outside the corporate media model and how the coverage and methods differ from mainstream publications.
www.msmc.edu /cultural_activities/culture_con.cfm?Path=cultural_activities_con&Content=cc_sked.html   (960 words)

  
 The Breakthrough Café
Ditkoff's latest brainchild, The Breakthrough Café, was a great success last October in Woodstock, New York and is now ready to go on the road to corporate venues nationally and abroad.
A reporter from The Chronogram, ("a mid-Hudson Magazine of Events and Ideas") also attended The Breakthrough Café and gave the event an excellent review.
As Ann Braybrooks reports in The Chronogram, The Breakthrough Café is a combination "party, restaurant and brainstorming session…to help people get unstuck, to move past the obstacles that bar the way to a more ecstatic existence.
www.ideachampions.com /breakthrough_cafe_pressrel1.shtml   (424 words)

  
 Iraq war photography presented   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Many students took time out of their daily routine yesterday to catch a glimpse of the reality across seas in Iraq.
Tychostup is the senior editor of Chronogram Magazine and a freelance photojournalist who has traveled to Iraq four times for four collective months covering the war and the Iraqi elections.
Tychostup presented her lecture with the combination of her photographs and stories to an audience in Squires Colonial Hall.
www.collegiatetimes.com /print.php?a=6032   (484 words)

  
 Chronogram (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
A chronogram is a sentence or inscription in which the capital letters, interpreted in Roman numerals, stand for a particular date if rearranged.
Longer chronograms are referred to as chronostichons, if they are a hexameter, and chronodistichons if they are a distichon.
The capitals read MDCIII when rearranged, which corresponds to 1603, the year of Elizabeth's death.
chronogram.iqnaut.net.cob-web.org:8888   (260 words)

  
 Mathenomicon.net : chronogram   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
A chronogram is a phrase or sentence in which certain letters represent a date, an epoch, or rarely a non-date number.
For example, the chronogram My Day Is Closed In Immortality commemorates the death of Queen Elizabeth the first of England: the capital letters can be rearranged to give MDCIII -- 1603 -- the year in which she died.
Brewer, E. and Room, A. Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, sixteenth edition, Cassell and Co.
www.cenius.net /refer/articles/c/chronogram/chronogram.html   (75 words)

  
 creativewritingGOOD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Chronogram is sponsoring a Creative Writing contest in honor of the One Book, One New Paltz program.
We are asking for submissions of short stories inspired by the themes found in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
The Chronogram is "A Mid-Hudson Magazine of Events and Ideas." The magazine is distributed in counties abutting the mighty Hudson River, including Ulster, Dutchess, Greene, Columbia, Orange and Putnam.
www.newpaltz.edu /onebook/Creativewriting.html   (135 words)

  
 Collectors Universe Forums - Osnabruck taler - 1698 sede vacante
My uncle was thinking of bidding on that, so I am glad he didn't cause he would have bid against you.
Cool...and it has a Chronogram on the reverse.
Isn't a chronogram where words are used as numbers?
forums.collectors.com /messageview.cfm?catid=6&threadid=547141   (190 words)

  
 WMS: Woodstock   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Altercation Magazine: This punk rock magazine based in Hurley, just outside Woodstock, recently surpassed its fifth year in publishing, transforming itself from a free fl-and-white read to a glossy, full-color cover periodical.
Chronogram: The Chronogram is a free monthly arts and cultural magazine produced by Luminary Publishing, Inc., in Kingston.
Chronogram’s mission is to nourish and support Hudson Valley’s creative and cultural life.
woodstockmusicshop.com /woodstock_pages/woodstock-essentialmedia.htm   (787 words)

  
 Hardness Results for Dynamic Problems by Extensions of Fredman and Saks' Chronogram Method   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Hardness Results for Dynamic Problems by Extensions of Fredman and Saks' Chronogram Method
We introduce new models for dynamic computation based on the cell probe model of Fredman and Yao.
We characterise the complexity of maintaining the value of any symmetric function on the prefixes of a bit string
www.brics.dk /RS/97/32/index.html   (162 words)

  
 Lornasplash
Writing about local, national and international issues for the last several years, Lorna is currently Senior Editor of Chronogram magazine, editing the "News and Politics" section.
Below are links to a variety of articles she has penned.
this link is not currently active while Chronogram reworks their web site.
www.lornatychostup.com /main/indexwriting.html   (3168 words)

  
 Chronogram   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Submit query by email; ms by mail with SASE and cover letter.
HINTS: "Chronogram is not a publication that publishes first-time writers.
Get new articles and paying markets the instant they are posted to the site by
writersweekly.com /markets/chronogram.php   (108 words)

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