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- Dorothea Dix (5868 bytes)
20: ...resumed her lobbying for the mentally ill, now by letter more often than in person. The two dozen mental h... - Bessie Smith (7284 bytes)
17: ... his father, John Lomax, in October, 1941. In the letter, Dr. W. H. Brandon, who attended to Bessie, wrote... - Sheryl Crow (8611 bytes)
23: ... ''[[Good Morning America]]'' and posting an open letter explaining her opposition on her website. [http:/... - Tori Amos (27672 bytes)
102: ...raftsmen could come cut it into parts". After the letter the owner miraculously surfaced. - Bonnie and Clyde (17385 bytes)
87: ...ever been authenticated. (Ford received a similar letter around the same time from someone claiming to be ... - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
9: ... career at the age of 13 in this context, writing letters to the newspaper defending [[evolution]], debati...
58: ...te slavery]]." Kennedy later said she tossed the letter away, believing her daughter to be dead. - Mother Teresa (22682 bytes)
86: ... variant of [[Pascal's Wager]]). Simon Leys, in a letter to the ''New York Review of Books'', wrote: "Eith...
95: ...ause. Teresa interceded on his behalf and wrote a letter to the court urging leniency. The district attorn... - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
17: ...o be, from [[1943]], head of [[SOE]] — in a letter of [[June 17]], [[1941]], to Polish Commander-in-... - Lucille Ball (12427 bytes)
60: ...he '''Cousin Ernie''' story arc. Lucy receives a letter informing her that her "Best Friend's Roommate's ... - Bette Davis (6722 bytes)
27: ...te Davis Eyes]]" became a hit single, Davis wrote letters to songwriters [[Donna Weiss]] and [[Jackie DeSh...
36: *Nominated ''[[The Letter]]'' ([[1940]]) - Back (949 bytes)
10: ...'''The Backs''' (in the plural and with a capital letter) means the area behind the main colleges, alongsi... - Heraldry (23465 bytes)
5: ...ent [[typeface|font]]s while still being the same letter.<sup>1</sup> For example, almost always the shap... - Manuscript (5266 bytes)
6: ...ural, but, by an old convention, doubles the last letter of the abbreviation to express the plural, just a...
16: ... case letter]]s. Manuscripts using all upper case letters are called '''[[uncial]]s''', those using all lo...
19: ...e]]; for example, a library's collection of the [[letter]]s or a [[diary]] that some historical personage ... - Calligraphy (20084 bytes)
4: ...in metal or chiselled into stone and the forms of letters used in them is called [[epigraphy]]. Epigraphy ...
100: ...uals to the Alef's height as a measuring unit for letter proportions.
115: ...as the [[cursive]] [[Naskh]] script, with rounder letters and thin lines; with refinement of its writing t...
118: ... is based on the principle that one third of each letter slides downward. As such it has a strong cursive ...
121: ...s "broken". This style breaks the rules of which letters connect to those that follow. - Minuscule (2323 bytes)
1: ... were written entirely in [[majuscule]] (capital) letters which were spaced between well-defined upper and...
3: ...became common to mix both majuscule and minuscule letters in a single text.
5: ...e'' is still less likely to be used for minuscule letters.
8: Traditionally, more important letters - those beginning sentences or [[noun]]s - were ...
10: ...form in the [[eighth century]]. Over time, uncial letter forms were increasingly mixed into the script. Th... - Illuminated manuscript (5973 bytes)
10: ....bible.arp.jpg|thumb|250px|An illuminated capital letter P in a Bible of 1407AD, on display in Malmesbury ...
11: ...r P in the Malmesbury Bible. The script is [[blackletter]], also known as Gothic script.]]
18: ...cule]] developed. Stocky, richly textured [[blackletter]] was first seen around the [[13th century]] and ... - Seal (device) (5951 bytes)
6: ...ax seal. Most governments still attach seals to [[letters patent]]. While many instruments required seals...
8: ...al seal for their eyes only. These were called [[letters secret]]. Seals are no longer commonly used in ... - Greek language (35285 bytes)
52: ...s as to the general nature of the sounds that the letters represented. See W. Sidney Allen, ''Vox Graeca &...
268: ... Modern Greek lose it, depending on the beginning letter of the next word (if it's a consonant,n is usuall...
284: The Greek alphabet consists of 24 letters, each with a capital and small form:
285: [[Alpha (letter)|Α α]],
286: [[Beta (letter)|Β β]], - Marco Polo (6716 bytes)
5: ...ned from China as [[Kublai Khan]]'s envoys with a letter for the [[Pope]] asking to be sent educated peopl... - Crumhorn (1946 bytes)
6: ...ment resembles a banana, or more prosaically, the letter J.
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