miscellania

• bases – A base-10 number system is called decimal and a base-2 number system binary, but what about a base-5 system or a base-17 system ? Notwithstanding the obvious question of who would want a base-17 number system, this page contains a list of bases and their corresponding names.
• shibboleth – shibboleth means something of a password or code word; this page contains the passage from the Bible from which shibboleth takes its name.
• names – Some names of members of collective entities (e.g., the four Harpies are Aello, Ocypete, Celeno, Thyella).
• La Belle Chanson – That Good Old Song of Wahoowah, en français.
• The effect of hydrogen gas on the voice – An excerpt from The Philosophical Magazine (1799)
• quindicine – Quarantining in the era of COVID-19