6 April 05

Adem

The surname of a Mexican Cohomologist at the University of Wisconsin Mathematics Department.

The Department of Environmental Management in the State of Alabama: administers all major federal environmental laws, including the Clear Air, Clean Water and Safe Drinking Water acts and federal solid and hazardous…

A singer-songwriter with the Domino Recording Company and with a very cool website.

The Department of Emergency Management in the State of Arkansas.

Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis.

Administration of Employment in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.

A microfilm company located in Britain.

The four letters that give uncial letters the characteristics that make them unmistakeable for anything else. I’m not sure any other hand can boast this, though I’d love to be proved wrong. Example below is written out with a Pilot Parallel Pen that arrived in the mail this morning…

uncial a-d-e-m

Posted by at 06:29 PM in Miscellaneous | Link |
  1. I love uncials. I don’t know their history, though I have some vague notion that Ireland figures in it. It would be cool if someone knowledgable were to post more about them. (Nudge, nudge.)

    There’s something about the way they fill up their spaces, like balloons inflated inside little boxes, that has always enchanted me.

    — dale    7. April 2005, 10:09    Link
  2. Adem was a great-cousin of ours, though no one knows how she got the nickname, she was baptised Marie-Cecile. I would bike 6 km to her house in Apremont and she would give me ice-cold watered-down homemade cassis liqueur, which I would drink down in large gulps. Inevitably lunchtime would come, I would head back under the noonday sun, fall in a ditch and sleep for an hour before making it back. Found out two months ago that this was a ritual each of us four kids went through.

    — Nicole    10. April 2005, 16:51    Link

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