Musical cryptogram. The BACH motif. A musical cryptogram is a cryptogrammatic sequence of musical notes, a sequence which can be taken to refer to an extra-musical text by some 'logical' relationship, usually between note names and letters. The most common and best known examples result from composers using ciphered versions of their own or their friends' names as themes or motifs in their compositions. Much rarer is the use of music notation to encode messages for reasons of espionage or personal security called steganography. Be
Rockall. Rockall is a very small, uninhabited island located around 300 miles (480 km) off the west coast of mainland Scotland. At just over 25 metres wide by 21 metres high, the extinct volcano doesnât seem to have any outstanding features of particular interest but nothing could be further from the truth.
Rock Island Locomotive #627, circa 1880. Its predecessor, the Rock Island and La Salle Railroad Company, was incorporated in Illinois on February 27, 1847, and an amended charter was approved on February 7, 1851, as the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad.t was also known as the Rock Island Line, or, in its final years, The Rock. At the end of 1970 it operated 7183 miles of road on 10669 miles of track; that year it reported 20557 million ton-miles of revenue freight and 118 million passenger-miles.