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    In textual studies, a palimpsest (/ˈpælɪmpsɛst/) is a manuscript page, either from a scroll or a book, from which the text has been scraped or washed off...
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    The Archimedes Palimpsest is a parchment codex palimpsest, originally a Byzantine Greek copy of a compilation of Archimedes and other authors. It contains...
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  • In geology, a palimpsest is a geographical feature composed of superimposed structures created at different times. Palimpsest is beginning to be used...
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  • Palimpsest (novel), by Catherynne M. Valente, 2009 Palimpsest (novella), by Charles Stross, 2009 Palimpsest, a memoir by Gore Vidal, 1995 Palimpsest:...
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  • Palimpsest is a novel by Catherynne M. Valente, published in March 2009. It follows four separate characters as they discover and explore a mysterious...
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    discovery in 1906 of previously lost works by Archimedes in the Archimedes Palimpsest has provided new insights into how he obtained mathematical results. Archimedes...
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  • Palimpsest is the fifth studio album by Canadian progressive metal band Protest the Hero released on June 18, 2020 through Spinefarm Records. Palimpsest...
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  • Palimpsest Press is a Canadian book publishing company based in Windsor, Ontario. Palimpsest publishes poetry and non-fiction titles that deal with poetics...
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    The Sanaa palimpsest (also Ṣanʽā’ 1 or DAM 01-27.1) or Sanaa Quran is one of the oldest Quranic manuscripts in existence. Part of a sizable cache of Quranic...
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  • Palimpsest is a 2009 science fiction novella by Charles Stross, exploring the conjunction of time travel and deep time. Originally published in Stross's...
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    Egyptian hieroglyph carving from the Temple of Seti I at Abydos. It is a palimpsest relief with two overlapping inscriptions, the titles of Ramesses II superimposed...
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    known for his discovery of previously unknown texts in the Archimedes Palimpsest, and for his edition of Euclid's Elements that T. L. Heath translated...
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    Documentation Project. Disks used to be known as GNOME Disk Utility or palimpsest Disk Utility. Udisks was named DeviceKit-disks in earlier releases. DeviceKit-disks...
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    Sinaiticus or Codex Sinaiticus Syriacus (syrs), known also as the Sinaitic Palimpsest, of Saint Catherine's Monastery (Sinai, Syr. 30), or Old Syriac Gospels...
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  • The León Palimpsest, designated l or 67 (in the Beuron system), is a 7th-century Latin manuscript pandect of the Christian Bible conserved in the cathedral...
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  • Palimpsest is a horror podcast created by Jamieson Ridenhour and Hayley Heninger with music by Ian Ridenhour. The show is a slow-paced psychological horror...
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    Saint Catherine's Monastery (category Palimpsests)
    decipherment of palimpsest manuscripts from the U.S. and Europe have photographed, digitized, and studied the library's collection of palimpsests during the...
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  • Palimpsest: Documents From a Korean Adoption (Swedish: Palimpsest) is a graphic novel written by Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom [sv] (Korean: 정울림), a South Korea-born...
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  • Palimpsests: Literature in the Second Degree is a 1982 book by French literary theorist Gérard Genette. Over the years, the book's methodological proposals...
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  • Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International is a biannual peer-reviewed academic journal covering work by and about women of the...
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  • lost, but in 1906 was rediscovered in the celebrated Archimedes Palimpsest. The palimpsest includes Archimedes' account of the "mechanical method", so called...
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  • The Verona Palimpsest (or Fragmentum Veronese) is a manuscript, dated about the 494 AD, which contains a Christian collection of Church Orders in Latin...
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    A palimpsest /ˈpælɪmpsɛst/, in planetary astronomy, is an ancient crater that has been degraded over time. They may also be referred to as "ghost craters"...
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    The Bojana Palimpsest or Bojana Gospel (Russian: Боянское Евангелие) is an 11th-century Old Church Slavonic manuscript, originally written in a Glagolitic...
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    Automatic writing, also called psychography, is a claimed psychic ability allowing a person to produce written words without consciously writing. Practitioners...
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  • Palimpsest is a composition for chamber ensemble by Greek-French composer Iannis Xenakis. It was composed in 1979. Palimpsest was a joint commission of...
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  • Species: M. basalis Binomial name Mimopsestis basalis (Wileman, 1911) Synonyms Generic Spilobasis Houlbert, 1921 Specific Palimpsestes basalis Wileman, 1911...
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    nature (unlike many other polymers). The use of PVAc on the Archimedes Palimpsest during the 20th century greatly hindered the task of disbinding the book...
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  • were called palimpsests and were very common in the ancient world until the Middle Ages. One notable palimpsest is the Archimedes Palimpsest. When washing...
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  • Testament. The text, written on vellum, is a palimpsest. Another name of the manuscript is Fleury Palimpsest or Palimpsestus Floriacensis. It is one of...
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