It is very rarely that I will use the word "awesome". Awesome means to inspire "awe". Awe itself is an very deep feeling of reverence, admiration, fear, etc., produced by that which is grand, sublime, extremely powerful, or the like.
The following anagram won the award for the best anagram of 1999 at http://www.anagrammy.com/ I think that it's probably the single best anagram I have ever seen. Maybe it's because of my nerdulence but upon seeing this I was in a state of very deep admiration; I think this is surely the greatest anagram ever developed.
Firstly it takes the names of thirty chemical elements:
hydrogen + zirconium + tin + oxygen + rhenium + platinum + tellurium + terbium + nobelium + chromium + iron + cobalt + carbon + aluminum + ruthenium + silicon + ytterbium + hafnium + sodium + selenium + cerium + manganese + osmium + uranium + nickel + praseodymium + erbium + vanadium + thallium + plutonium
=
nitrogen + zinc + rhodium + helium + argon + neptunium + beryllium + bromine + lutetium + boron + calcium + thorium + niobium + lanthanum + mercury + fluorine + bismuth + actinium + silver + cesium + neodymium + magnesium + xenon + samarium + scandium + europium + berkelium + palladium + antimony + thulium
But there's more: if we replace each element by its atomic number (position in the Periodic Table), there is still equality:
1 + 40 + 50 + 8 + 75 + 78 + 52 + 65 +102 + 24 + 26 + 27 + 6 + 13 + 44 + 14 + 70 + 72 + 11 + 34 + 58 + 25 + 76 + 92 + 28 + 59 + 68 + 23 + 81 + 94
=
7 + 30 + 45 + 2 + 18 + 93 + 4 + 35 + 71 + 5 + 20 + 90 + 41 + 57 + 80 + 9 + 83 + 89 +47 + 55 + 60 + 12 + 54 + 62 + 21 + 63 + 97 + 46 + 51 + 69
=
1416
Whoa. That's some freaky stuff, that is.
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