THE STEREO FIELD
what stays centred · what is spread · why the low end is not panned
MUSICAL DYNAMICS
the loudness marks from pp to ff, crescendo and diminuendo hairpins — and how the piano got its name
NOTE FREQUENCIES
the fundamental of every note in hertz · equal temperament, A = 440 Hz
C MAJOR FINGERING
right and left · one octave and two
THE EIGHT BLOOD TYPES
three antigens, eight types — and the one rule the whole table of compatibility follows from
PHONETIC ALPHABET
the ICAO standard · for radio and telephone
FOOTBALL: THE BALL
Law 2, three codes of the game, five sizes and three FIFA quality marks — what a ball must survive
BISHOP
a diagonal at any distance — and the half of the board that will never come
KING
one square in any direction, from three in the corner to eight in the middle, and castling
THE MOVES OF THE PIECES
all six moves from one square, the article of the rules and how many squares each piece holds
QUEEN
file, rank and diagonal together — from twenty-one squares to twenty-seven
ROOK
fourteen squares from any square of the board — the one piece that does not care where it stands