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A palimpsest is a manuscript page that has been scraped off and used again.
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A palimpsest is a manuscript page that has been scraped off and used again.
Palimpsest may also refer to:
An autobiography, sometimes informally called an autobio, is a self-written biography of one's own life.
John Winslow Irving is an American-Canadian novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter.
Aleatoricmusic is music in which some element of the composition is left to chance, and/or some primary element of a composed work's realization is left to the determination of its performer(s). The term is most often associated with procedures in which the chance element involves a relatively limited number of possibilities.
Intervention, Interventions, The Intervention or An Intervention may refer to:
Giannis Klearchou Xenakis was a Romanian-born Greek-French communist avant-garde composer, music theorist, architect, performance director and engineer.
The Archimedes Palimpsest is a parchment codex palimpsest, originally a Byzantine Greek copy of a compilation of Archimedes and other authors. It contains two works of Archimedes that were thought to have been lost and the only surviving original Greek edition of his work On Floating Bodies. The first version of the compilation is believed to have been produced by Isidorus of Miletus, the architect of the geometrically complex Hagia Sophia cathedral in Constantinople, sometime around AD 530. The copy found in the palimpsest was created from this original, also in Constantinople, during the Macedonian Renaissance, a time when mathematics in the capital was being revived by the former Greek Orthodox bishop of Thessaloniki Leo the Geometer, a cousin of the Patriarch.
Granular synthesis is a sound synthesis method that operates on the microsound time scale.
Messenger, Messengers, The Messenger or The Messengers may refer to:
Myra Breckinridge is a 1968 satirical novel by Gore Vidal written in the form of a diary. Described by the critic Dennis Altman as "part of a major cultural assault on the assumed norms of gender and sexuality which swept the western world in the late 1960s and early 1970s", the book's major themes are feminism, transsexuality, American expressions of machismo and patriarchy, and deviant sexual practices, as filtered through an aggressively camp sensibility. The controversial book is also "the first instance of a novel in which the main character undergoes a clinical sex-change". Set in Hollywood in the 1960s, the novel also contains candid and irreverent glimpses into the machinations within the film industry.
The Gift or The Gifts may refer to:
Lost or LOST may refer to getting lost, or to:
New York most commonly refers to:
Sherman Joseph Alexie Jr. is a Native American novelist, short story writer, poet, screenwriter, and filmmaker. His writings draw on his experiences as an Indigenous American with ancestry from several tribes. He grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation and now lives in Seattle, Washington.
Defiance may refer to:
Disk Utility is a system utility for performing disk and disk volume-related tasks on the macOS operating system by Apple Inc.
An image is an artifact that depicts visual perception, such as a photograph or other two-dimensional picture.
First Light may refer to:
Heartland or Heartlands may refer to:
Heroes or Héroes may refer to:
Palimpsest is a composition for chamber ensemble by Greek-French composer Iannis Xenakis. It was composed in 1979.