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Henk Hofland: 'Geen generatie kan ons evenaren'

bron beeld: dvhn.nl In Jagtlust beschrijft Annejet van der Zijl (1962) de geschiedenis van het honk van de na-oorlogse culturele generatie. Die was gegroepeerd rond het fenomeen Fritzi Harmsen van Beek (1927-2009), die menig mannenhart op hol liet slaan. Zelden succesvol. Jagtlust, zoals de villa heette die aan de Eemnesserweg in Blaricum stond, en waar Fritzi Harmsen van Beek haar onderkomen…

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On this day in Wikipedia: Wednesday, 28th February

Welcome, croeso, ongi etorri, benvenuto 🤗 What does @Wikipedia say about 28th February through the years 🏛️📜🗓️?

28th February 2023 🗓️ : Event - Tempi train crash Two trains collide south of the Vale of Tempe in Greece, leading to the deaths of at least 57 people and leaving 58 missing and 85 injured. "On 28 February 2023, a head-on collision occurred between two trains south of the Tempe Valley in Greece, about halfway between the Greek towns of Tempi and Evangelismos in the Thessaly region. The collision, involving the InterCity 62 (IC62) passenger train and an intermodal freight train, killed..."

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28th February 2019 🗓️ : Death - André Previn André Previn, German-American pianist, conductor, and composer. (b. 1929) "André George Previn (; born Andreas Ludwig Priwin; April 6, 1929 – February 28, 2019) was a German-American pianist, composer, and conductor. His career had three major genres: Hollywood films, jazz, and classical music. In each he achieved success, and the latter two were part of his life until..."

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28th February 2014 🗓️ : Death - Hugo Brandt Corstius Hugo Brandt Corstius, Dutch linguist and author (b. 1935) "Hugo Brandt Corstius (29 August 1935 – 28 February 2014) was a Dutch author, known for his achievements in both literature and science.In 1970, he was awarded a PhD on the subject of computational linguistics. He was employed at the Mathematisch Centrum in Amsterdam. However, to the general public..."

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28th February 1974 🗓️ : Event - February 1974 United Kingdom general election The British election ended in a hung parliament after the Liberal Party, under Jeremy Thorpe, achieved their highest ever number of votes. "The February 1974 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 28 February 1974. The Labour Party, led by Leader of the Opposition and former Prime Minister Harold Wilson, gained 14 seats (301 total) but was seventeen short of an overall majority. The Conservative Party, led by incumbent..."

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28th February 1924 🗓️ : Birth - Robert A. Roe Robert A. Roe, American soldier and politician (d. 2014) "Robert Aloysius Roe (February 28, 1924 – July 15, 2014) was an American Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey in the United States House of Representatives from November 4, 1969 to January 3, 1993...."

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28th February 1740 🗓️ : Death - Pietro Ottoboni (cardinal) Pietro Ottoboni, Italian cardinal and patron of the arts (b. 1667) "Pietro Ottoboni (2 July 1667 – 28 February 1740) was an Italian cardinal and grandnephew of Pope Alexander VIII, who was also born Pietro Ottoboni. He is remembered especially as a great patron of music and art. Ottoboni was the last person to hold the curial office of Cardinal-nephew, which was..."

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28th February 🗓️ : Holiday - Christian feast day: Romanus of Condat "Romanus of Condat (also known in English as Saint Roman; French: Romain de Condat or Romain du Jura) (c. 390 – c. 463) is a saint of the fifth century. At the age of thirty five, he decided to live as a hermit in the area of Condat. His younger brother Lupicinus followed him there. They became..."

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Palindromes

Palindrome

A palindrome is a word, phrase, number, or other sequence of characters which reads the same backward or forward, such as madam or kayak. Sentence-length palindromes may be written when allowances are made for adjustments to capital letters, punctuation, and word dividers, such as "A man, a plan, a canal, Panama!", "Was it a car or a cat I saw?" or "No 'x' in Nixon".

The word "palindrome" was coined by the English playwright Ben Jonson in the 17th century from the Greek roots palin (πάλιν; "again") and dromos (δρóμος; "way, direction")

Characters, words, or lines

The most familiar palindromes in English are character-unit palindromes. The characters read the same backward as forward. Some examples of palindromic words are redivider, noon, civic, radar, level, rotor, kayak, reviver, racecar, redder, madam, and refer.

There are also word-unit palindromes in which the unit of reversal is the word ("Is it crazy how saying sentences backwards creates backwards sentences saying how crazy it is?"). Word-unit palindromes were made popular in the recreational linguistics community by J. A. Lindon in the 1960s. Occasional examples in English were created in the 19th century.

Palindromes often consist of a sentence or phrase, e.g., "Mr. Owl ate my metal worm", "Was it a car or a cat I saw?" or "Go hang a salami, I'm a lasagna hog". Punctuation, capitalization, and spaces are usually ignored. Some, such as "Rats live on no evil star", "Live on time, emit no evil", and "Step on no pets", include the spaces.

Semordnilap (palindromes spelled backward) is a name coined for words that spell a different word in reverse. The word was coined by Martin Gardner in his notes to C.C. Bombaugh's book Oddities and Curiosities of Words and Literature. An example of this is the word repaid, which is diaper spelled backward. Semordnilaps are also known as word reversals, reversible anagrams, heteropalindromes, semi-palindromes, half-palindromes, reversgrams, mynoretehs, or anadromes. They have also sometimes been called antigrams, though this term usually refers to anagrams which have opposite meanings.

Some well-known English palindromes are, "Able was I ere I saw Elba", "A man, a plan, a canal - Panama!", "Madam, I'm Adam" or "Madam in Eden, I'm Adam" and "Never odd or even".

English palindromes of notable length include mathematician Peter Hilton's "Doc, note: I dissent. A fast never prevents a fatness. I diet on cod" and Scottish poet Alastair Reid's "T. Eliot, top bard, notes putrid tang emanating, is sad; I'd assign it a name: gnat dirt upset on drab pot toilet."

"Rise to vote, sir" was featured in an episode of The Simpsons.

Notable palindromists

Dmitry     Avaliani

Howard     Bergerson

Hugo     Brandt Corstius

Simo Frangén     and Pasi     Heikura (Alivaltiosihteeri)

Velimir     Khlebnikov

J. A. Lindon

Leigh Mercer

Mark Saltveit

Su Hui     (poet)

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Palindromes

Palindrome

A palindrome is a word, phrase, number, or other sequence of characters which reads the same backward or forward, such as madam or kayak. Sentence-length palindromes may be written when allowances are made for adjustments to capital letters, punctuation, and word dividers, such as "A man, a plan, a canal, Panama!", "Was it a car or a cat I saw?" or "No 'x' in Nixon".

The word "palindrome" was coined by the English playwright Ben Jonson in the 17th century from the Greek roots palin (πάλιν; "again") and dromos (δρóμος; "way, direction")

Characters, words, or lines

The most familiar palindromes in English are character-unit palindromes. The characters read the same backward as forward. Some examples of palindromic words are redivider, noon, civic, radar, level, rotor, kayak, reviver, racecar, redder, madam, and refer.

There are also word-unit palindromes in which the unit of reversal is the word ("Is it crazy how saying sentences backwards creates backwards sentences saying how crazy it is?"). Word-unit palindromes were made popular in the recreational linguistics community by J. A. Lindon in the 1960s. Occasional examples in English were created in the 19th century. Several in French and Latin date to the Middle Ages.[2]

There are also line-unit palindromes.

Sentences and phrases

Palindromes often consist of a sentence or phrase, e.g., "Mr. Owl ate my metal worm", "Was it a car or a cat I saw?" or "Go hang a salami, I'm a lasagna hog". Punctuation, capitalization, and spaces are usually ignored. Some, such as "Rats live on no evil star", "Live on time, emit no evil", and "Step on no pets", include the spaces.

Semordnilap

Semordnilap (palindromes spelled backward) is a name coined for words that spell a different word in reverse. The word was coined by Martin Gardner in his notes to C.C. Bombaugh's book Oddities and Curiosities of Words and Literature.

An example of this is the word repaid, which is diaper spelled backward.

The longest examples of a semordnilap contain eight letters:

"stressed"     ("desserts")

"rewarder"     ("redrawer", one who redraws)

"dioramas"     ("samaroid", resembling a samara)

Shorter examples are "deliver" ("reviled"), Zeus ("Suez"), and "swap" ("paws").

"Noon" is a palindrome but not a semordnilap because it is the same word whether spelled backward or forward.

Semordnilaps are also known as word reversals, reversible anagrams, heteropalindromes, semi-palindromes, half-palindromes, reversgrams, mynoretehs, or anadromes. They have also sometimes been called antigrams, though this term usually refers to anagrams which have opposite meanings.

Famous English palindromes

Some well-known English palindromes are, "Able was I ere I saw Elba", "A man, a plan, a canal - Panama!", "Madam, I'm Adam" or "Madam in Eden, I'm Adam" and "Never odd or even".

English palindromes of notable length include mathematician Peter Hilton's "Doc, note: I dissent. A fast never prevents a fatness. I diet on cod" and Scottish poet Alastair Reid's "T. Eliot, top bard, notes putrid tang emanating, is sad; I'd assign it a name: gnat dirt upset on drab pot toilet."

"Rise to vote, sir" was featured in an episode of The Simpsons.

Names

Some names are palindromes, such as the given names Hannah, Ada, Bob and Otto, or the surnames Harrah, Renner and Salas.

Lon Nol (1913–1985) was Prime Minister of Cambodia. Nisio Isin is a Japanese novelist and manga writer, whose pseudonym (西尾 維新, Nishio Ishin) is a palindrome when romanized using the Kunrei-shiki or the Nihon-shiki systems, and is often written as NisiOisiN to emphasize this. Some people have changed their name in order to make of it a palindrome (such as actors Robert Trebor and Steve Evets), while others were given a palindromic name at birth (such as the philologist Revilo P. Oliver or the flamenco dancer Sara Baras). Palindromic names are very common in Finland.

There are also palindromic names in fictional media. "Stanley Yelnats" is the name of a character in Holes, a 1998 novel and 2003 film. Four of the fictional Pokémon species have palindromic names in English (Eevee, Girafarig, Ho-Oh, and Alomomola).

The 1970s pop band ABBA is a palindrome using the starting letter of the first name of each of the four band members.

Molecular biology

Main article: Palindromic sequence

Restriction enzymes recognize a specific sequence of nucleotides and produce a double-stranded cut in the DNA. While recognition sequences vary widely, with lengths of between 4 and 8 nucleotides, many of them are palindromic, which correspond to nitrogenous base sequences between complementary strands, which, when read from the 5' to 3' direction, are identical sequences.

Numbers

Main article: Palindromic number

Main article: Periodic continued fraction

A palindromic number is a number whose digits, with decimal representation usually assumed, are the same read backward, for example, 5885. They are studied in recreational mathematics where palindromic numbers with special properties are sought. A palindromic prime is a palindromic number that is a prime number, for example, 191 and 313.

The continued fraction of √n + ⌊√n⌋ is a repeating palindrome when n is an integer, where essentially, for any positive x, ⌊x⌋ denotes the integer part of x.

Acoustics

A palindrome in which a recorded phrase of speech sounds the same when it is played backward was discovered by composer John Oswald in 1974 while he was working on audio tape versions of the cut-up technique using recorded readings by William S. Burroughs. Oswald discovered in repeated instances of Burroughs speaking the phrase "I got" that the recordings still sound like "I got" when played backward.[12][13]

In France, a more complex example has been identified with[citation needed] "Une slave valse nue" (a Slavic girl waltzes naked).

Notable palindromists

Dmitry     Avaliani

Howard Bergerson

Hugo     Brandt Corstius

Simo Frangén     and Pasi     Heikura (Alivaltiosihteeri)

Velimir     Khlebnikov

J. A. Lindon

Leigh Mercer

Mark Saltveit

Su Hui     (poet)

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Hugo Brandt Corstius was nieuwsgierig naar de mensensoort

Hugo Brandt Corstius was nieuwsgierig naar de mensensoort

bron beeld: okradnik.com Hugo Brandt Corstius (1935-2014) hield ervan om de gemoederen bezig te houden. Als onder andere Battus, Stoker, Jan Eter en Piet Grijs schreef hij columns waarin hij van alles beweerde dat nogal eens tegen de haren instreek. Dat Brandt Corstius wetenschapper was, had daar waarschijnlijk iets mee van doen. Behalve schrijver was hij alfa- en beta-wetenschapper en dan vallen…