The Umpqua River At the Forks Is A Day That Made Sheila Wonder Why, Forever?? Well This Is 9/20/2015 @6:15 AM & However Is Not Today, However It Is Today And I Will Say That Selmar And I Would Swim On The Dare And Sheila Kept That Secret, Or Did She??

Should memory Park at the picnic be truth,

did what why when or become the steady be should,

church camp frustrate and that waltz to the compass,

what is the flatware as the tables be pleasant??

Silverware is the Louisa be Minot,

as the Moseley said Rodgers than Wares got a bay,

Papa and Nana my Grandparents its true,

however Mr. White said that Mrs White was the only be prove??

Wells are so deep that comfort is love,

than Michelle is just Westinghouse to the where house of subbed,

as that is a parts shop that once had a counter,

what happened to those Men that Gordon loved long??

Glowa Garage across from the Post,

an office to see that Jeffrey did lead,

how is the ever with the missed by a deed,

a Fast Car or the Cricket that makes Baseball the Thugged??

Campho Phenique is not the Soap 'poison oak' as Nana had Naphtha and its often a groat,

as what is the dial but the balance of coat,

Fell's what to the word that its harsh,

or,

 bitter to whom would be Toads of the two-thousand year old term so easily read; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naphtha........

as a good scrub to picking those blackberries I learned about 'Canning' and 'Wax' for the turned??

Than what is 'Jarring' is the reality of wisdom as old timey shelves that stock memory unwind,

https://www.google.com/search?q=canning+and+jarring+food&oq=Canning+and+Jarring+Food&aqs=chrome.0.69i59.4687j0j9&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

and,

it gave rise to knowing that time is not not a blur to the grandfather clause,

for I was with Papa on days that a Cadillac made grace a fact and rivers just Cern,

now what is 'pickling' while people just spurn??

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Umpqua_River

Cutlery

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

French travelling set of cutlery, 1550–1600, Victoria and Albert Museum

Cutlery includes any hand implement used in preparing, serving, and especially eating food in the Western world. A person who makes or sells cutlery is called a cutler. The city of Sheffield in England has been famous for the production of cutlery since the 17th century and a train – the Master Cutler – running from Sheffield to London was named after the industry.^[1]

Cutlery is more usually known as silverware or flatware in the United States, where cutlery usually means knives and related cutting instruments. Although the term silverware is used irrespective of the material composition of the utensils, the term tableware has come into use to avoid the implication that they are made of silver.

The major items of cutlery in the Western world are the knife, fork and spoon. In recent times, hybrid versions of cutlery have been made combining the functionality of different eating implements, including the spork (spoon / fork), spife (spoon / knife), and knork (knife / fork) or the sporf which combines all three.

Contents

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• 1Etymology
• 2Composition
• 3The industry
  • 3.1Disposable cutlery
• 4Manufacturing centres
• 5See also
• 6References
• 7Further reading
• 8External links

Etymology[edit]

Silver forks and a spoon

The word cutler derives from the Middle English word 'cuteler' and this in turn derives from Old French 'coutelier' which comes from 'coutel'; meaning knife (modern French: couteau).^[2]

The first documented use of the term "cutler" in Sheffield appeared in a 1297 tax return. A Sheffield knife was listed in the King's possession in theTower of London fifty years later. Several knives dating from the 14th century are on display at the Cutlers' Hall in Sheffield.^[2]

Composition[edit]

Sterling silver is the traditional material from which good quality cutlery is made (hence the usage of the term in the United States). Sets of such cutlery are a valuable component of household silver and are stored and maintained carefully. Whole sets are created, sometimes specifically for wealthy clients, containing a range of specialised dining implements, such as the comprehensive set in sterling silver made for the French aristocrat Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier (known as the Marquis de Lafayette) by the Towle Manufacturing Company. It contained, among many other items, a gravy ladle, mustard spoon and lettuce fork.^[3]

Starch-polyester disposable cutlery

Steel was always used for more utilitarian knives, and pewter was used for some cheaper items, especially spoons. From the nineteenth century,electroplated nickel silver (EPNS) was used as a cheaper substitute; nowadays, most cutlery, including quality designs, is made fromstainless steel. Another alternative is melchior, a nickel and copper alloy, which can also sometimes contain manganese. It also contains elements of magnesium and copper sulphate.

Plastic cutlery is made for disposable use, and is frequently used outdoors for camping, excursions, and barbecues for instance. Plastic cutlery is also commonly used at fast-food or take-away outlets and provided with airline meals in economy class. Wooden disposable cutlery is also available as a biodegradable alternative.

The industry[edit]

Cutlery has been made in many places. In Britain, the industry became concentrated by the late 16th century in and around Birminghamand Sheffield. However, the Birmingham industry increasingly concentrated on swords, made by "long cutlers", and on other edged tools, whereas the Sheffield industry concentrated on knives.

At Sheffield the trade of cutler became divided, with allied trades such as razormaker, awlbladesmith, shearsmith and forkmaker emerging and becoming distinct trades by the 18th century.

Before the mid 19th century when cheap mild steel became available due to new methods of steelmaking, knives (and other edged tools) were made by welding a strip of steelon to the piece of iron that was to be formed into a knife, or sandwiching a strip of steel between two pieces of iron. This was done because steel was then a much more expensive commodity than iron. Modern blades are sometimes laminated, but for a different reason. Since the hardest steel is brittle, a layer of hard steel may be laid between two layers of a milder, less brittle steel, for a blade that keeps a sharp edge well, and is less likely to break in service.

After fabrication, the knife had to be sharpened, originally on a grindstone, but from the late medieval period in a blade mill or (as they were known in the Sheffield region) a cutlers wheel.

Disposable cutlery[edit]

Introduced for convenience purposes (lightweight, no cleanup after the meal required), disposable cutlery made of plastic has become a huge worldwide market. Along with otherdisposable tableware (paper plates, plastic table covers, disposable cups, paper napkins, etc.), these products have become essential for the fast food and catering industry. The products are emblematic of throw-away societies and the cause of millions of tons of non-biodegradable plastic waste.

On-air The Radio Just Said To Say Clark?? Or, We Need You Dave Clark As Wise Is The Man That Said In A Land Everyone Is Starting To Look 'A' like?? What's Hitch hiking on this should this be an actual Script in the write to the editor at-large whom knows the Radio is a transistor today??

http://www.ktvu.com/about-us/frank-mallicoat/174757052-story

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Somerville

I love Frank Mallicoat as Frank Somerville works all his shifts or, is the SFPD the copyright photograph signature piece that makes the Officer's Sears??

Know, its like a credit card once a debit card?? No, fact is fact, should a person give a credit card to you to use at the local Hardware Store to purchase a repair or is it pay for the work of the service at a care, and I sign the receipt than I must sign my name on the receipt not the name on the credit card that I have been give permission to use to pay for the receipt of the Goods of purchased. Therefrom a call to oblivion, per se, would in deed make a stolen credit card up to the avenue of how that voice could be any on sacked, and, would tight-wrap no signature to the register of the stores accounting as a coupon at the end of the day when the drawer must be counted out?? So, is the 'video or the surveillance units inside and outside the store for security of the building and its staff than the evidence to provide the question of only one day of bath??

Margie at the Theater (should she still be an employee of the Regal Natomas Markeplace best movie house in Sacramento [by the way its right next to Jamba Juice and has the coolest fountain that makes this even weirder now that I think about it, oh well this is brackets in the  parenthesis and nobody will read it as I am rambling on for purpose of clarity not clear-it-teed] as it was such a tangle relief when those rolling blackouts hit our stores)  http://www.regmovies.com/theatres/theatre-folder/Regal-Natomas-Marketplace-Stadium-16-RPX-1547 at Truxel https://www.google.com/search?q=Truxel&oq=Truxel&aqs=chrome..69i57&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 whom is also one of the Managers of the Office for I in the fame, at least that is how I considered her wonder be Fame.

A ticket provider or, ticket box office or, ticket guy that is blind to the customer of the visitor to where a Movie may be watched can in fact say to the Ticket taker that what is Whom to that seat chart on the Movie House. There sort is as dialing the Popcorn Stand is a line in the Candyland,

that my grandmother Nana said that games are for us at her house of a Man??  No, she would giggle her serious for the moment between, for Melinda and Roman said it was I in the Means of a game that did like the Chutes & Ladders to same.

Monopoly is not not San Francisco, as being born and raised in the city a version does never bring dues, for that is the streets to the street without need for the name, as the direction of drive is the traffic?? No, it is the ability to realize the bog, I mean Sal, Castaneda that is!!!!.... and in simply complex Nana taught those grains of salt to the sand in their shoes, as Melinda and Roman actually really did get mean??  Well that is opinion, no, it was occasion driven as Melinda was the memoires to Uncle Richard and memoires hib been. Roman had Rick but at that dismissal their Ross by the sticked plugged a known as an Irish be plain.

This is what to whom but I in a known, as Margie was a stickler to those coupons and the stern method of reliability ended up mading Ryan understand that bank tellers land a fantastic today, for memory clay with just a single typed say: 'What is the scene, and, where is your man'.  Thereby Margie must be loved and Nakia makes Scanlon the day of the reason that birthdays still chortle my sides. Now, on this plate of a post from breakfast_in_america, what is a meal as the lunch and the Field??

Tom Syn Route^Dures Is Wall Streets Bell To A Stage Of What, The Floor, Or, That Sprain?? How, Does See You On 'The Radio' By Those BroadWaves That Make Reel Again!!!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Keene_(radio_host)

Should an Editor at-large be keen to Office in New York,

the hostess of london by side of the seat,

chair is rib to a meet,

at the fixture of scale does the noise than speak sale??,

as that is the a prawn to nets and a vessel.

Spike to that Anchor is the Writer be Text,

a tell-prompt tour to production be cell of the genes in the aptitude or scripts on the felled,

Fall is a Season spring forward a time,

the clock of independence is the East Coast bore signed,

first is the morning good to that coffee,

then cream and the sugar for opening Beer??

Budwieser is the 5:00 PM to that a.m. be Shocked,

eclectic to IM bass See and that is the Fed on the Feeds to streaming a Trend??.

How on earth is 'good night' a brought loaded with Sun or that fuckt up be brung,

is each procession the fade of accent to studder,

Cambridge at Harrow with Burrows sew Penned.

Museum that parade of who is the Sea,

well in that ocean is the lagoon made to put,

shall the beach at the sand sing rocks on a Tacked,

or is the fish of the Salmon running to Creeks while the Grizzly awaits??

Did Any One Person Know That Witchcraft Had An Origin Word?? Elsdon Best (30 June 1856 – 9 September 1931) was an ethnographer ( the systematic study of people and cultures. It is designed to explore cultural phenomena where the researcher observes society from the point of view of the subject of the study) who made important contributions to the study of the Māori of New Zealand.

Makutu ~ http://www.dictionary.com/browse/makutu

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Mākutu in the Māori language of New Zealand means "witchcraft", "sorcery", "to bewitch"; and also a "spell or incantation".^[1][2] It may also be described as a belief in malignant occult powers possessed by certain people.

Elsdon Best (1859-1931) portrayed the belief in mākutu as "universal and prominent in pre-European times", stating that it acted as "a disciplinary force in the old days; it was one of the substitutes for civil law that preserved order in a Māori community".^[3] Best noted that the effectiveness of mākutu was heightened by the fact that it could be carried out in secret; the element of uncertainty produced caution on the part of those who might otherwise transgress the laws of the community. It was widely believed^{[by whom?][citation needed]}that those expert in mākutu were able to use the art to kill people.^{[citation needed]} But there were limits on their freedom to act: should an irresponsible practitioner of the dark arts become a nuisance to a tribe, the solution to the problem simply involved killing the errant magician without delay. The training undergone by an apprentice was long and difficult, involving secret rituals and tests.^[3]

An October 2007 mākutu-lifting in the Lower Hutt suburb of Wainuiomata led to the death by drowning of a woman and the hospitalisation of a teen, allegedly due to attempts to remove such a curse.^[4]

MEDICINE AMONGST THE MAORIS, IN ANCIENT AND MODERN TIMES

MAKUTU OR WITCHCRAFT

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MAKUTU or WITCHCRAFT. http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-BucMedi-t1-body-d1-d5.html

Makutu was the second fruitful source of disease. In the early days it may have been a useful weapon in the hands of the tohungas. As they were the learned section of the community, the fear inspired by the dread of makutu materially helped them in governing the tribe. The modus operandi we will describe but reserve all explanation until the ancient system of medicine has been dealt with. Makutu was the power of slaying people by calling up familiar spirits by means of incantation. It was amongst the subjects learnt in the House of Learning, though not universally, for all tohungas did not possess the power of makutu. In fact the "tohunga makutu" though feared was somewhat despised and condemned for his evil practises. The Maori as a warlike race looked upon fame in the battlefield as the highest honour and the cowardly method of killing one's enemy secretly by means of incantations was execrated and condemned as murder. There is an old proverb which runs:-

Mata rakau e taea te karo,
Mata rerepuku e kore e taea.
(A weapon made of wood can be (seen and) parried, but the weapon which strikes unseen (makutu) cannot be parried,).

The practice of makutu was often in the hands of old women warlocks who had some familiar spirit of the larvae or lemur type. The action of makutu upon the individual afflicted was similar to that in the preceding section. In the case of disease, the atua punished the transgressor of tapu, whilst in makutu the atua also afflicted the individual but it was in obedience to the command of a witch or wizard. Thus in cases of theft the power was often requisitioned to punish the thief. Any transgression against the community might be punished in a similar way. The methods of procedure vary PAGE 37but they all aim at destroying the "hau" or vital principle in man. Thus in the most common method, where the subject to be bewitched, was or course not present at the secret ceremony, it was necessary to have some material representation of the 'hau' to operate upon. This as already pointed out was the "ohonga". It could be some portion of wearing apparel, a look of hair, a remnant of food or even anything that the subject had touched such as a few grains of earth or sand taken from one of his footprints. In connection with this fear of leaving facilities for obtaining the ohonga the Maoris took great precautions. The "purenga" or place where the hair of a chief was cut, was tapu and guarded by atuas who would attack anyone tampering with the spot. The mass of the people would not leave their cut hair lying about but would carefully bury or burn it, of course never in a cooking-fire. I have seen my own mother carefully conceal any combings from her head. In this procedure there are two ideas involved, tapu and the fear of makutu. Great care was taken of extracted teeth. With children there was a ceremony of concealing any milk teeth in the fork of a growing tree to ensure the growth of permanent teeth and also I am sure to prevent their being used as an 'ohonga' for makutu. With food again great precautions were taken. In my youth I was warned not to leave any remnants of food lying about or even to expectorate in public places lest I should fall a victim to makutu. For a similar reason defaecation near the houses was carefully avoided and children specially warned against it. This helped to make all go to the public privy which had its own supernatural guardians to prevent anyone obtaining an ohonga for the purposes of makutu. It will be easily seen that many of these observances are useful from a health as well as a social point of view and used as a restraining influence by a worthy priesthood served a useful purpose. But neolithic tohungas were no better than the witches and wizards of civilised times. They PAGE 38used their power against personal enemies and they could be bought over by presents to remove the enemies of others. Some tribes were especially addicted to this practice and used makutu for the more pleasure of showing thir power and inspiring fear. Two coastal tribes, the Puketapu of Taranaki and the tribe inhabiting Tuparoa on the East Coast, bewitched the footprints of all strangers who passed along the sea-beach forming the sea-boundary of their territories. The mortality amongst travellers became so high, that people passing those dread sands selected the time when the tide was flowing in. By walking along in the edge of the sea they ensured the effacement of their footprints by the in-coming tide and so escaped death.

The ohonga having been obtained was subjected to the appropriate incantations. The incantations I have in my notes were obtained from a man of the Ngati-Porou tribe in 1867. He was tried by a tribunal of his tribe, admitted that he had killed by makutu and his incantations were copied down. The first incantation was repeated when seizing the ohonga and ran:-

Whakahopu ringa e Aitu,
Whakahopu ringa e tangata.

Lay hold Oh Death
Lay hold Oh man.

The ohonga, whilst other incantations were being repeated, was wrapped up in a piece of reed grass or flax and taken to some secluded spot near a stream where a hole was dug. At this stage, the spiritual form of the victim, the wairua, would appear and be recognised and the diagnosis was complete in cases of theft or crime. On the completion of the hole, according to this Ngati-Porou version, whilst the priest was repeating the words:-

Rangahua, tenei koe,
Tuturi mai,
PAGE 39Pepeke mai,
Whawharoro mai,
Tenei koe.,

Rangahua, here thou art,
Kneel within,
Crouch within,
Lie stretched out within,
Here thou art,

a particular bronzed fly appeared and flew into the prepared hole. The priest with a sudden movement, dashed a sod over the hole, imprisoning or slaying the fly and at the same time repeating the final words of death:-

Tamumu te rango,
Totoro te iro.

The blow-flies buzz,
The maggots crawl.

If the fly escaped, the victim would escape but If it were killed, he was a dead man. This use of the ohonga or obtaining some material object upon which to direct incantations, resembles the action of Scotch witches who to the tune of incantations destroyed clay or waxen effigies to cause the death of those thus represented, or upset a cockle-shell floating in a basin of water to cause a shipwreck. The civilised or Scotch system is not clear to the Maori mind. It seems to rely upon the primitive idea that like affects like. The Maori system, where the ohonga or material representation definately impregnated with the hau or vital essence of man was destroyed, has a connection all through and seems a more thought-out system. This hau of man stands in a somewhat similar relation to man that tapu does to the gods but the former was passive, the latter active. A man touching anything communicated to it some of his hau. It could thus be used as an ohonga and the hau of the person destroyed. Tapu was communicated in a similar way, but it PAGE 40killed. The tapu person had no fear of his human hau being taken from the impregnated ground where he had sat for his supernatural tapu had also been communicated to the spot. He had left a powerful anti-toxin on the place. The lesser person who could not rely so much upon the protective influence of tapu, could, when amomgst strangers, by the correct phrase remove his hau from where he had sat, in a similar way to that in which the sacred chief removed his tapu. In the for case this was done lest the passive hau should be bewitched and in the latter, lest the potential tapu should be converted into kinetic atua-biting disease by an act of desecration.

There are many variations of the above method. One was by directly spurning some dust over the victim. This was known as "rehu". Some cases are recorded, where the ohonga does not seem to have been used but the victim was slain at a distance.

A common method was to makutu a certain spot or certain materials. Thus a high chief who had been insulted by a neighbouring family was not strong enough to punish them in battle. He bewitched the
^a stone, placed it in the centra of the main path to his village and left the district. Every one whose foot touched that stone died. The corner stones marking the boundaries of a cultivation were sometimes bewitched to prevent their removal. Thus the biblical warning "cursed be he that remove th his neighbor's land-mark" was literally fulfilled. Food was often bewitched that those who partook thereof might die. When the descendants of Tangaroa-Mihi were unable to defeat Ngati-tama in battle, they bewitched some red ochre and sent it as a present to the hitherto invincible sons of Tama. These warriors smeared their faces with the red ochre ere offering battle and as a result of the makutu were slain in battle and their tribe overthrown.

Makutu was thus also used to prevent the mana of a par-PAGE 41ticular person or family from becoming too great. Jealousy aroused by the fame of a warrior in battle, or the power of a chief in the tribal council, in the entertainment of visitors, and other actions which caused his fame to spread, might lead to makutu being employed, often by another branch of the family who were being outshone in military or civil fame. The makutu besides being directed against the individual might be directed against the family as a whole. In the latter case the family would become less productive. Instead of families of seven or eight or more, the children would die and leave perhaps a solitary survivor. The disease was therefore hereditary and the condition was known as a "whare ngaro", a lost house, that is, that particular house or family was becoming extinct. There are many families at the present time in this condition. The sub-tribe to which I belong, the "Ngati-aurutu" is now represented by two others besides myself. The other two are old men but they have no heirs. I have been married for four years without producing issue. My family, therefore, from the Maori view point is a typical 'whare ngaro' which a generation or two back was doomed to extinction by some old tohunga whose ban has never been properly removed. In connection with this, the incantations were generally repeated over some object such as a stone which was then carefully concealed. As long as this bewitched object remained concealed, death through wasting disease caused by the demon evoked would be ever present amongst the members of the family against which the makutu was directed.

The "Ahitaitai" is an example of a commingling of makutu and tapu. When the child of a chief of note had its navel cord concealed in a certain spot, that spot became tapu But in order to give the tapu a special virulence a certain ceremony was performed in which a sacred fire, the "ahitaitai" in this case, was used. The spot was bewitched or a special guardian left in charge. Anyone trespassing was punished severely. The Hon. A. T. Ngatainformed me of an ahitaitai in his family. It was located near the NativePAGE 42school of the district. The European school-teacher was warned of its proximity, but with the unbelief of his race, he included the spot in a fowl-run. He and his family partook of the eggs, and curious to say, were afflicted with violent abdominal pains and developed chronic diarrhoea of great obstinacy. The health of his family continued so bad that we had to leave the district. Thus was the ahitaitai vindicated upon the unbelieving white man.

Tapu and makutu, then, are the two great causes, according to the Maori, of disease and death. In reality there is only one cause, the gods who punish sin, not against the laws of public health, but against the religious enactments of the race and who obey the evil behests of man.

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PONG!! The First Data With Game Means To Karaoke On-Screen With Speak-N-Spell As Sound Dean Out 'The Sign' In Silent Lyrics And Digit^Ties Beach Is To Know The Value Of 'The Wave'!!!!!

Infinity symbol

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The ∞ symbol in several typefaces

The infinity symbol ∞ (sometimes called the lemniscate) is a mathematical symbol representing the concept of infinity.

Contents

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• 1History
• 2Usage
• 3Modern Symbolism
• 4Graphic design
• 5Encoding
• 6See also
• 7References

History[edit]

John Wallis introduced the infinity symbol to mathematical literature.

The shape of a sideways figure eight has a long pedigree; for instance, it appears in the cross ofSaint Boniface, wrapped around the bars of a Latin cross.^[1] However, John Wallis is credited with introducing the infinity symbol with its mathematical meaning in 1655, in his De sectionibus conicis.^[1][2][3][4] Wallis did not explain his choice of this symbol, but it has been conjectured to be a variant form of a Roman numeral for 1,000 (originally CIƆ, also CƆ), which was sometimes used to mean "many", or of the Greek letter ω (omega), the last letter in the Greek alphabet.^[5]

Symbol used by Euler to denote infinity

Leonhard Euler used an open variant of the symbol^[6] in order to denote "absolutus infinitus". Euler freely performed various operations on infinity, such as taking its logarithm. This symbol is not used anymore, and does not exist in Unicode.

Usage[edit]

In mathematics, the infinity symbol is used more often to represent a potential infinity,^[1] rather than to represent an actually infinite quantity such as the ordinal numbers and cardinal numbers(which use other notations). For instance, in the mathematical notation for summations and limitssuch as

${\displaystyle \sum _{i=0}^{\infty }{\frac {1}{2^{i}}}=\lim _{x\to \infty }{\frac {2^{x}-1}{2^{x-1}}}=2,}$

the infinity sign is conventionally interpreted as meaning that the variable grows arbitrarily large (towards infinity) rather than actually taking an infinite value.

In areas other than mathematics, the infinity symbol may take on other related meanings; for instance, it has been used in bookbinding to indicate that a book is printed on acid-free paper and will therefore be long-lasting.^[7]

Modern Symbolism[edit]

The infinity symbol appears on several cards of the Rider–Waite tarotdeck

In modern mysticism, the infinity symbol has become identified with a variation of the ouroboros, an ancient image of a snake eating its own tail that has also come to symbolize the infinite, and the ouroboros is sometimes drawn in figure-eight form to reflect this identification, rather than in its more traditional circular form.^[8]

In the works of Vladimir Nabokov, including The Gift and Pale Fire, the figure-eight shape is used symbolically to refer to the Möbius stripand the infinite, for instance in these books' descriptions of the shapes of bicycle tire tracks and of the outlines of half-remembered people. The poem after which Pale Fire is entitled explicitly refers to "the miracle of the lemniscate".^[9]

Graphic design[edit]

The well known shape and meaning of the infinity symbol have made it a common typographic element of graphic design. For instance, the Métis flag, used by the Canadian Métis people in the early 19th century, is based around this symbol.^[10] In modern commerce, corporate logos featuring this symbol have been used by, among others, Room for PlayStation Portable, Microsoft Visual Studio, Fujitsu, and CoorsTek.

Encoding[edit]

The symbol is encoded in Unicode at U+221E ∞ INFINITY and in LaTeX as \infty: ${\displaystyle \infty }$.

The Unicode set of symbols also includes several variant forms of the infinity symbol, that are less frequently available in fonts: U+29DC ⧜INCOMPLETE INFINITY (HTML ⧜ · ISOtech entity ⧜), U+29DD ⧝ TIE OVER INFINITY (HTML ⧝) and U+29DE ⧞ INFINITY NEGATED WITH VERTICAL BAR (HTML ⧞) in block Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B.^[11]