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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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
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
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
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
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