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The knock code is featured in Arthur Koestler's 1941 work Darkness at Noon. [6] Kurt Vonnegut's 1952 novel Player Piano also includes a conversation between prisoners using a form of tap code. The code used in the novel is more primitive and does not make use of the Polybius square (e.g. "P" consists of sixteen taps in a row).
The Secret is a 2006 self-help book by Rhonda Byrne, based on the earlier film of the same name. It is based on the belief of the pseudoscientific law of attraction , which claims that thought alone can influence objective circumstances within one's life.
The one snag with Enigma of course is the fact that if you press A, you can get every other letter but A. I picked up this message and—one was so used to looking at things and making instant decisions—I thought: 'Something's gone. What has this chap done? There is not a single L in this message.'
Other employees, including one in the financial department and a senior vice president, helped with editing after hours in their spare time. [5] Woolsey's first project with Square was the translation of Final Fantasy Legend III , and the company asked him to review and avoid a repeat of Final Fantasy II ' s messy translation.
Slay is a slang colloquialism that possibly originated during the 1600s, but gained its current LGBT connotation in the 1970s from ball culture.Originally having a meaning similar to "that joke was killer", slay has since gained a definition meaning being impressed or term of agreement.
[166] [167] The Secret Service itself also faced logistical issues from the repeated travel to New York. Having a Secret Service detail was not a major adjustment for Melania though, as she had spent years around her husband's security team. [168] She was given the Secret Service code name "Muse" to go along with the president's name "Mogul". [169]
Carny is thought to have become popularized around 1931 in North America, when it was first colloquially used to describe one who works at a carnival. [2] The word carnival, originally meaning a "time of merrymaking before Lent" and referring to a time denoted by lawlessness (often ritualised under a lord of misrule figure and intended to show the consequences of social chaos), came into use ...