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unusual facts about Scribes: The American Society of Legal Writers


Scribes: The American Society of Legal Writers

The Scribes Journal distribution now exceeds 10,000 copies and has published articles by some of the best-known figures in legal writing, including Garner himself, Joseph Kimble, Charles Alan Wright, Judge Richard Posner, Lawrence M. Friedman, Richard Wydick, Reed Dickerson, Dean Darby Dickerson, Irving Younger, Steven Stark and Wayne Schiess.


An Invisible Sign

Aimee Bender's 2001 novel An Invisible Sign of My Own was adapted for the screen by The Wedding Planner scribes Michael Ellis and Pamela Falk.

Auchinleck manuscript

Since the language is consistent within each lay or romance, it is surmised the scribes worked independently on each whole story as opposed to the manner more commonly used in monasteries in which the monks would copy text directly from the exemplars, only one page at a time, with a catchword inscribed at the bottom corner for later collation.

Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge

In Scribes, Leigh Loveday said that the ability for Banjo and Kazooie to fly was removed because it just would not have worked out in the game.

Federfechter

In their Deutsches Wörterbuch, the Brothers Grimm hold it plausible that it derives from the custom of pinning feathers to one's hat or lance, but the coat of arms accorded to the brotherhood by Rudolf II displays two arms each holding a quill (schreibfeder), inducing the Grimms to speculate that the brotherhood may merely have originated as the fencing guild of the professional scribes.

Illiana Christian High School

Other opportunities include Bill of Rights Convention, Bowling, Care Convention, Chapel, Christian Service Club, Class Trip, Close-Up, Drama, Fine Arts, Flag Corp, Landlopers, Math Team, Mock Trial, Echo (The Student Newspaper), Scribes, Senior Service, Student Council, Tutor Team, & The Spire (the Illiana Christian High School yearbook).

Joachim of Fiore

He spent the following year and a half at the Cistercian Abbey of Casamari, where he engaged in writing his three great books, his dictations keeping three scribes busy night and day; there the young monk, Lucas (afterwards Archbishop of Cosenza), who acted as his secretary, was amazed to see so famous and eloquent a man wearing such rags, and the wonderful devotion with which he preached and said Mass.

Maya society

Scribes held a prominent position in Maya courts and had their own patron deities (see Howler Monkey Gods and Maya maize god).

Pauline epistles

“‘Girls Trained in Beautiful Writing’: Female Scribes in Roman Antiquity and Early Christianity.” Journal of Early Christian Studies 6.4 (1998): 629–46.

Thomas de Multon, Lord

The Lord of Moulton (misprinted as Multon by the scribes of the time period) was born in Lincolnshire, England and fought as a Knight in Normandy and then settled in the French Providence of Orbec in 1203,


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