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Filing this firmly under "today I learned"!

#TodayILearned

Today I learned:

Before marking up emphasised passages in a text using italic type or bold type became a thing, there was rubrication: the practice of writing important passages and other parts of a text that required emphasis in red ink.

This did not only include cases we would use italic type for today, but also things like headings or initial letters in a line.

And occasionally, rubrication was used to mark up instructions, e. g. for a priest; the black coloured text would be the text to be spoken aloud, and the red coloured text would contain the instructions for the speaker.

Scribes would sit in their scriptorium (if they had one) and just mark up emphasised passages in red ink. Such scribes were called rubricators.

Some bible editions, called Red Letter Editions, used red ink to mark up words spoken by Jesus Christ specifically.

#til #todayILearned #bookbinding #books #writing #linguistics #history #typesetting #printing

#TIL #TodayILearned that there is a #SheelaNaGigs map in Google maps!

#SheelaNaGig

As a long-standing #PJHarvey fan, I find this amazing!

https://maps.app.goo.gl/zwxfxgWDU22UFLYL6?g_st=com.metabolist.metatext.share-extension

#TodayILearned that apparently #BilliePiper was not told that actual showers would go off in the lift of of the hospital facility of the #DoctorWho episode #NewEearth (#DrWho168S02E01), so her shocked expression when she is getting absolutely soaked as she is getting 'disinfected' is genuine!

Sources:

• Relevant #WhoCulture episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXKmY-NgFzM
• Relevant #Fandom article snippet: > "Billie Piper didn't know she was going to be hit with water in the lift, Russell T Davies kept it in the final cut as he thought it was too funny to cut it."> https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/New_Earth_(TV_story)

#DrWho #BehindTheScenes #SeriesFiXatoWatches #TIL #TodayILearnt

#TodayILearned that #KiaHuntzinger (credited in the video as #KiaMontgomery) who voiced the iconic #EVA in the #CommandAndConquer series, originally was the receptionist at #WestwoodStudios and her lines were originally recorded as placeholders: https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1025777/Classic-Game-Postmortem-Command-Conquer

Lovely #ClassicGamePostMortem so far with #MariaDelMarMcCreadyLegg, #LouisCastle, #FrankKlepacki, #SteveWetherill, #EricYeo, #EdDelCastillo, #JoeKucan (#KaneLives!), #BrettSperry, #EricGooch, #TedMoms and #WilliamRandolph.