Initial - Wikipedia

In a written or published work, an initial or drop cap is a letter at the beginning of a word, a chapter, or a paragraph that is larger than the rest of the text. The word is derived from the Latin initialis, which means standing at the beginning. An initial is often several lines in height and in older books or manuscripts, ... The decoration of insular initials, especially large ones, was generally ...

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Google Doodles

Doodles are the fun, surprising, and sometimes spontaneous changes that are made to ... While the first doodle was relatively simple, the idea of decorating the  ...

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13 Nov 2019 ... From traditional decorations to playful decorations, Walmart has over a thousand Christmas decorations for any style. Here are our top 18 picks.

The evolutionary ecology of decorating behaviour | Biology Letters

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Decoration and illumination - The University of Nottingham

Decoration in medieval manuscripts performed a number of functions. ... Sometimes an initial would be made just a little larger than other letters, perhaps  ...

Lighting the Way: How Illuminated Initials Guided Medieval Readers ...

10 Jan 2019 ... Many medieval manuscripts are full of decorated capital letters that add ... Sometimes illuminated initials contrast with the text: they might show ...

This is how Maurice Sendak sometimes sent his letters. Just imagine ...

Maurice Sendak illustrated envelope (via Letters Of Note). Letters Of ... Edward Gorey was known to decorate the envelopes of his correspondence. Apparently ...

Better CSS Drop Caps With “initial-letter”

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A Letter to Parents About Thanksgiving - UnderstandingPrejudice.org

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Architectures of the Book -- Decorated Letters - ArchBook

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text-decoration - CSS: Cascading Style Sheets | MDN

16 Sep 2019 ... The text-decoration shorthand CSS property sets the appearance of ... Be careful when removing the text decoration on anchors since users often depend on the underline to ... It also applies to ::first-letter and ::first-line .

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HOA told Texas couple to take down Christmas decorations. They ...

15 Nov 2019 ... Nick and Claudia Simonis put their Christmas decorations up on November 1, and received a letter from their homeowners association three ...

Letters after the name - Debrett's

Order of Letters. 1. Orders and decorations conferred by the Crown (Crown honours). ..... Officers above the rank of group captain do not often use these letters.

How to Decorate Monogram Letters - YouTube

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