middle ages

The Acrostic’s Secret History

Hiding a message in plain sight is the art of steganography, and the acrostic is its most literary tool. From…

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The Secret Code of Scribes

Before the printing press, scribes used a secret code of symbols and shortcuts to write faster and save precious parchment.…

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Biography of a Word: The Journey of ‘Assassin’

Discover the dramatic history of the word 'assassin,' a term born from a mysterious medieval sect in the mountains of…

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From Chisel to Stylus: How the Tools of Writing Forged Our Alphabets

Have you ever wondered why an 'A' looks the way it does? The answer lies not in linguistics, but in…

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The Language of the Sea: How Maritime Pidgin Shaped Global Communication

Long before English dominated global communication, the world's oceans were a linguistic laboratory where sailors, merchants, and pirates forged simplified…

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The Curious Case of the Green Children of Woolpit

In the annals of history, there are tales so strange that they seem more like fiction than fact. One such…

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