If you have ever paid or are thinking of paying ‘Coffee Money’ when stopped for traffic or other offences, don’t ever do this again.

The absence of anaphonesis in some parole bandiera […] was clearly used in order to identify the origin of the speakers: it is said that in the sixteenth century, during the Guerra di Siena (‘war of Siena’), the inhabitants of Siena were identified and consequently slain by Florentine troops on the basis of the fact that they called a particular fish tenca ‘tench’ rather than tinca.³

The non-occurring of cholera in New York in the autumn of 1892 was not due in any important degree to the quarantine; but infinitely more to the fact that the other conditions did not prevail.

The famous double arrow emerged at this time, as did the new Rail Alphabet typeface (basically slightly altered Helvetica) that it still used today for station names and signposts, ….