Omens
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Broader term:Related term:Narrower terms:Used for:- Portents
- Prodigies (Omens)
- Signs (Omens)
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Teras (in Latin, with Greek quotations; 1909), by Paulus Stein (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)- Proverbial Lore in Nebraska (1933), by Emma Louise Snapp (PDF at unl.edu)
- Signs, Omens, and Portents in Nebraska Folklore (1933), by Margaret Cannell (PDF at unl.edu)
- What They Say in New England: A Book of Signs, Sayings, and Superstitions (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1897), by Clifton Johnson
- Omens and Superstitions of Southern India (London and Leipzig: T. F. Unwin, 1912), by Edgar Thurston (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Supernaturall Sights and Apparitions Seen in London, June 30, 1644, Interpreted; With a Mathematicall Discourse of the Now Imminent Conjunction of Jupiter and Mars, 26 July, 1944, the Effects Which Either Here or in Some Neere Countries From Thence May be Expected (London: Printed for T. V. and to be sold by I. S, 1644), by William Lilly
- The Mystery of the Sea (London: W. Heinemann, 1902), by Bram Stoker
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Signs and symbols- Early Spanish Treasure Signs and Symbols (Garland, TX: Little Treasures Pub. Co., c1963), by William Mahan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- A Book of Symbols for Camp Fire Girls (New York: Camp Fire Outfitting Co., 1915), by Charlotte V. Gulick (page images at HathiTrust)
- Semiotics for Beginners, by Daniel Chandler (frame-dependent illustrated HTML in the UK)
- The American Boys' Book of Signs, Signals and Symbols (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., c1918), by Daniel Carter Beard (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Cross of the Magi: An Unveiling of the Greatest of All the Ancient Mysteries (New York: Roger Bros.; London : L.N. Fowler, 1912), by Frank C. Higgins
- The Unicode Standard, Version 3.0, by Unicode Consortium (HTML at unicode.org)
- The Cloisters Cross: Its Art and Meaning (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art : Distributed by H.N. Abrams, c1994), by Elizabeth C. Parker and Charles T. Little (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)
- A Collection of Emblemes, Ancient and Moderne, Quickened With Metricall Illustrations, Both Morall and Divine (London: Printed by A. M. for H. Taunton, 1635), by George Wither (page images at Penn State)
- Shakespeare and the Emblem Writers: An Exposition of Their Similarities of Thought and Expression; Preceded by a View of Emblem-Literature Down to A. D. 1616 (London: Trübner and Co., 1870), by Henry Green (page images at HathiTrust)
- Symbolic Objects in Contentious Politics (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2023), ed. by Benjamin Abrams and Peter Gardner (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
- Learning the Radiotelegraph Code (first edition; West Hartford, CT: American Radio Relay League, 1942), by John Huntoon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- The Anglo-American Telegraphic Code to Cheapen Telegraphy and to Furnish a Complete Cypher (third edition; New York: Anglo-American Code and Cypher Co., 1891)
- The Phillips Telegraphic Code for the Rapid Transmission by Telegraph of Press Reports, Commercial and Private Telegrams, and All Other Matter Sent by Wire or Cable (Washington: Gibson Bros., 1879), by Walter P. Phillips (page images at HathiTrust)
- Military Cryptanalysis (4 volumes originally issued 1938-1941; declassified version published 2005), by William F. Friedman (PDF files at nsa.gov)
- The Voynich Manuscript: An Elegant Enigma (Fort George G. Meade, MD: National Security Agency/Central Security Service, 1978), by M. E. D'Imperio (page images at HathiTrust)
- Fundamental Principles of the Baconian Ciphers, and Application to Books of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (typescript version; c1916), by George Fabyan
- Fundamental Principles of the Baconian Ciphers and Application to Books of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (ca. 50-page printed version; c1916), by George Fabyan
- Lessons in the Greatest Work of Sir Francis Bacon of Verulam, Viscount St Alban (expanded version of his "Fundamental Principles of the Baconian Ciphers..."; c1916), by George Fabyan
- Cracking Codes with Python, by Al Sweigart (illustrated HTML with commentary at inventwithpython.com)
- Roadside Crosses in Contemporary Memorial Culture (Denton, TX: University of North Texas Press, c2002), by Holly J. Everett (page images at unt.edu)
- The Cross of the Magi: An Unveiling of the Greatest of All the Ancient Mysteries (New York: Roger Bros.; London : L.N. Fowler, 1912), by Frank C. Higgins
- The Non-Christian Cross: An Enquiry Into The Origin And History of the Symbol Eventually Adopted as That of Our Religion, by John Denham Parsons (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Military Cryptanalysis (4 volumes originally issued 1938-1941; declassified version published 2005), by William F. Friedman (PDF files at nsa.gov)
- Mathematics and Computation: A Theory Revolutionizing Technology and Science (prepublication version, c2019), by Avi Wigderson (PDF with commentary at ias.edu)
- Cryptography and Data Security (Reading, MA et al.: Addison-Wesley, c1982), by Dorothy Elizabeth Robling Denning (PDF at npos.edu)
- Cracking DES: Secrets of Encryption Research, Wiretap Politics and Chip Design (1998), by Electronic Frontier Foundation (HTML at cryptome.org and other sites)
- Cryptography's Role in Securing the Information Society (prepublication copy), ed. by Kenneth Dam and Herbert Lin (HTML and page images at NAP)
- Cracking Codes with Python, by Al Sweigart (illustrated HTML with commentary at inventwithpython.com)
- The Mathematical and Philosophical Works Of the Right Reverend John Wilkins (London: Printed for J. Nicholson, 1708), by John Wilkins (page images at Google)
- A Century of Emblems (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878), by George Spencer Cautley (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Emblems, Divine and Moral, Together With Hieroglyphicks of the Life of Man, by Francis Quarles (page images at Penn State)
- Emblems of Love, in Four Languages, Dedicated to the Ladys (1680s), by Philip Ayres (page images at Penn State)
- Nuttelyck Huys-Boeck (second edition, in Dutch; Leiden: H. van der Deyster, 1769), by Jacob Cats
- Pia Desideria, or, Divine Addresses, In Three Books (second edition; London: Printed by J. L. for H. Bonwicke, 1690), by Herman Hugo, trans. by Edmund Arwaker (page images at Penn State)
- Phonophotography in Folk Music: American Negro Songs in New Notation (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1928), by Milton Metfessel, contrib. by Carl E. Seashore (page images at HathiTrust)
- Die Harmonikale Symbolik des Alterthums (2 volumes in German; Cologne: M. Du Mont-Schauberg, 1868-1876), by Albert Thimus (page images at HathiTrust)
- Text and Context: Explorations in the Semantics and Pragmatics of Discourse (London and New York: Longman, c1977), by Teun A. van Dijk (PDF at Wayback Machine)
- Linguistic Individuals, by Almerindo E. Ojeda (PDF at Stanford)
- What is Meaning? Studies in the Development of Significance (London and New York: Macmillan and Co., 1903), by Victoria Welby
- Sound-Signals (reprinted from the Annual Cyclopaedia; New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1884), by Arnold Burges Johnson (multiple formats at Google)
- Telegraphic Signals: or Marine Vocabulary (London: Printed for T. Egerton, 1803), by Home Riggs Popham (page images at HathiTrust)
- The American Boys' Book of Signs, Signals and Symbols (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., c1918), by Daniel Carter Beard (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Handbook of Military Signaling (New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1917), by Howard A. Giddings
- A System of Marine Signals (New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1876), by S. P. Griffin (multiple formats at Google)
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