Inventio

Entertainment / Literature / Inventio: (plural, inventiones from Latin invenire, 'to come upon, to discover', cf. Modern English 'invention') in classical rhetoric, inventiones were techniques for brainstorming, for 'finding' material to talk about in a speech or to write about in a composition.
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Keyboard Instrument

Entertainment / Music / Keyboard Instrument: Instrument sounded by means of a keyboard (a series of keys played with the fingers). The most commonly recognized keyboard instruments are the piano, organ, harpsichord and synthesizer, a recent inve MORE

Ogam

Entertainment / Literature / Ogam: The term comes from Old Irish, 'Oghma,' probably an eponym of Oghma the Irish god of invention. It refers to a form of symbolic Celtic markings common in the 5th and 6th centuries in which a communica MORE

Meme

Entertainment / Literature / Meme: An idea or pattern of thought that 'replicates' like a virus by being passed along from one thinker to another. A meme might be a song or advertising jingle that gets stuck in one's head, a particular MORE

Minuscule

Entertainment / Literature / Minuscule: A small or lowercase letter, in contrast with majuscule, a large or capital letter. The invention of minuscule allowed for faster, more compact writing in scriptoria. MORE

Oil-Painting

Lifestyle / Painting / Oil-Painting: This technique was not suddenly invented; the story that accredits its invention to the Van Eyck brothers is incorrect, although they did much to help the evolution of the new medium. Previous to the MORE

Encaustic

Lifestyle / Painting / Encaustic: One of the oldest methods of painting, being practised from at least 3000 BC. Some of the finest existing examples are the mummy portraits from Fayum executed about the 3rd century AD. The colours are MORE