Chequered floor and Diamond palindrome

Chequered floor and Diamond palindromeSOLVITUR AMBULANDO On this chequered floor, paved with slabs each a foot square, the palindrome word ROTATOR can be traced in various ways.If a man walks over it, taking one slab at every step, and never lengthening his strides, how many steps will he take in tracing every possible variation of the word, and how many such variations are there?+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+|=R=|...

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Palindrom in the monastery of Petschenga

Come with me, and let us take a trip far away to the North Country, to the coast of the White Sea, to the land of the midnight sun, to the shores of Russian Lapland... Not many persons are acquainted with the fact that in Finmark, far away to the North, and on the very shores of the Arctic Ocean, there once stood a large monastery, which was famed, in its day, throughout the Greek Church for its sanctity,...

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The Queer, the Quaint and the Quizzical

Palindromes One of the most remarkable palindromes is the following: SATOR AREPO TENET OPERA ROTAS. Its distinguishing peculiarity is that the first letter of each successive word writes to spell the first word; the second letter of each the second word, and so on throughout; and the same will be found as precisely true upon reversal. But the neatest and prettiest that has yet appeared comes from a...

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A curious Sator charm

A curious charm which was extensively used as an amulet in medieval times consists of five Latin words so arranged that they can be read backwards or forwards and also upwards or downwards.The disposition of the letters is as follows:s a t o ra r e p ot e n e to p e r ar o t a sThis charm has been preserved for us in Greek and Coptic as well as in Roman characters, and examples of it have been found cut in...

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James Appleton Morgan - Macaronic poetry

Another ingenious verse is the Palindrome, from πάλιν and δρóμος, to flow or run back; sometimes called Sotadic verse, from Sotades, their inventor, though a higher (or a lower) authority is sometimes given; the first palindrome having been, according to one account, the impromptu of an unfortunate demon, while carrying most unwillingly a portly canon of Combremer from Bayeux to Rome; it reads the same either...

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